Quite! When we got a new trainer at agility, she said I let Pongo take the micky too much and that it was important the dogs realised they were here to work, not to have fun. We didn't go back there, either...
Noted in the Labrador Forum book of firm commitments for the future. When Fiona gets a Choccie, Emily gets a second dog too.
I should add that I'm not criticising the trainer, because by all accounts she is brilliant at training top class agility dogs. It's just that that is not my aspiration for Pongo.... in any conceivable way....
Heheheh, and Julie never forgets these things! It's gone down in Forum Law now. Don't look too worried, Emily. I'm not about to start looking around in the near future...
I love to chatting to Alfie - I think he probably knows enough about my masters course to sit my exams for me :L
Molly is such a layabout in the mornings - never wants to get up. However this morning she was lying on the bed next to me nudging me with her nose (about 9.30 am) so I decided to get up. Just had a shower, came back to the bedroom and found her stretched out snoring. She didn't want me to get up and take her out, just get up to give her more room!
Some heelwork this morning, followed by play/"give" training with a Kong SqueakAir Buoy, which looks like this: Got me thinking that I've heard less force-free trainers say using bird-shaped dummies is a useful tactic if you have a dog that shakes the dummy, because the "head" will give them a whack as they shake it. Having watched Willow put the buoy down so she could pick it up by the knotted end of the rope to get a much better swing on it as she pranced around like a rocking horse, I'm not sure this theory would work on my two
No, there is nothing Charlie likes better than bashing a retrieve round his head. I have some 'training' birds - there are hard bits on each end, supposedly to punish the dog if he shakes it. I bought them not because I wanted to punish Charlie but at the time we were working on bringing things back that have flappy bits on them and I needed more things that had flappy bits. He just picked them up by one of the ends and had a great old time flinging it round!
When my dog decides to take himself off to his bed in the kitchen rather than sit with me in the living room it makes me really sad Im literally backwards and forwards in the kitchen trying to tempt him back like pleeeeeease come and sit with me and he just looks at me from his bed like OH is on nights.. Maybe Stanley doesn't like my taste in TV either
Charlie does this - after his last wee walk. I honestly think he doesn't like the noise of the TV, and he definitely does not like the puppy! There is nothing else, no more 'stuff' after last wee walk, and he just wants to sleep. I prefer him with us in the TV room too, and tonight he is with us. The puppy crept into his bed to snuggle up but he said what? what? you annoying thing - bugger off and he went to take himself off to his bed in the kitchen so I put the puppy in her crate. Then he agreed to stay. I just reckon he wants a bit of peace!
There's no bigger canine middle finger than sitting down on the sofa next to your dog, and having your dog pointedly move to the other sofa She doesn't mind sharing usually so I don't take it too personally, but it still stings a bit.
After dinner, Ella sleeps on me on the couch, she climbs all the way up to my chest and snores there for a while. Then around 8-8.30pm she gets up and stares at me. This is my cue to go and open our bedroom door so that she can go to bed. On our bed of course
