@donc Thank you ! I had a whole knee replacement yesterday and am delighted to think I will be able to walk with Hoover and Mku again ! I haven't been able to cross my own kitchen without sticks for what seems like months.
I have always stressed the importance of teaching re-call as a first priority with a new puppy. Hoover is 12 so no problems there but I am so glad I worked with Mku as soon as he arrived, late February.
Since I have been incapacitated, my son has been taking them to the woods for a long walk Saturdays and Sundays, and a kind neighbour has taken Mku with a Border Terrier on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Mku adores Maisie, the Terrier, and will follow her, even paddling after her down woodland streams - very unbasenji-like. She is helping to keep his training going.
He won't know what hit him when Mom is back in action !!!