A couple updates

[crysania4]

1. Regarding the last entry. Fred from Shit Means Shit never bothered to comment back to me. Am I surprised? Not really. The last time he tried to get a dig in about that very same video, he never responded either. I guess trying to insult someone for their untrained dog (who, in a video, is playing, not working on training) doesn't work so well when that person turns around and tells you their dog has her CGC.

2. Related to that. David went and commented back to his original comment, which was something like "What is this video supposed to show? That your dog runs away from you and won't come to you?" David knows how to cut them to the quick.

Fred--I'm the guy in that video. You apparently really need to get a life. Someone puts up a video to show friends their new rescue dog playing and you come by to criticize? What a loser. You sound like a little man with power issues. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Some of you might remember the RV (Harvey) business from way back and David's rather cold, biting e-mails. Yeah. He's good at that shit. Fred removed his original comment. LOL I love David. He's awesome.

3. Dahlia's trick training is going REALLY well. She now knows "sit pretty" 100%. She even knows to try to stay with her paws off the ground until I give her the treat, though she sometimes loses her balance. Little by little she's extending the time she can sit up. I hope to get a picture sometime in the next couple weeks. We're going to take her out to the park on a nice day and do it then. So now the next goal? Crawling (though I've been calling it "sneak"). She's taking a little longer to get this, but she's starting to crawl forward to get the treats. It'll take some time to work her up to doing it 10 or 15 feet. I need to get more training treats though! I'm plum out of the things!

Comments

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

I told the Bear about Mr. Shock Collar last night, and he just cringed.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

It really is cringe worthy. I hope the guy has given up attempting to harass me.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see the Vh1 Reality Show with Danny Bonaducci where he put a shock collar on himself and his little kid was running around pressing the button? I wonder if we could do that with this guy.

[petulant.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the training! A tip for learning crawl (from when I was teaching Brody) - start with her crawling under something, not just going for the treat. Even if it's just you or David with your legs up on the coffee table and the other one luring her under.

[crysania4.livejournal.com]

That was one of Miss Teacher's suggestions. I tried the other one first...just putting the treat further out away from her and she's doing it. If she won't go much further I'll change over to that (we do have an agility jump that could be adjusted for her to crawl under).

[petulant.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I'm teaching Darce! My Dad and I made a jump out of PVC piping (just haven't gotten around to posting pictures yet) and since he's so fond of it, I thought I'd use it to teach Darce crawl, too. He already knows "under" and weaves back and forth under my legs but I'd love to see him army crawl. The problem is that he doesn't mind if he knocks the piping off. haha