This week’s class was for the birds! No, I’m serious! There was a bird at Mom and Dad’s obedience class. And not just any bird, it talked! I don’t mean talking like the wild turkeys’ gobbling, a robin’s tweeting, or even like my annoying owl neighbor who is always asking, “who?” This bird could say […]
I can’t believe I’m even having this conversation with Mom and Dad’s trainer. Apparently he is of the opinion that eating random food found on the ground is a bad thing. Clearly this man has never enjoyed a fresh pile of deer poop while hiking, nor visited a local park the day after a country […]
One of the reasons I enrolled Mom and Dad in obedience training is because they need to learn to resist temptation for their safety and ours. Sure we all know the “leave it” and “drop it” commands, but this is about avoiding getting into that situation in the first place. Take for example if we […]
Well that was humiliating. I can’t believe I embarrassed myself so badly in front of Mom and Dad’s trainer, especially just when I was making such good progress with their obedience lessons. What was I thinking? Actually that was the problem, I wasn’t thinking! I wasn’t listening or focusing either. Instead I was ignoring my […]
I think I created two monsters! Mom and Dad are now using their obedience training on each other! It all started with a simple errand. What Dad needed was on the second floor of the store. So Mom and Dad walked hand in hand, weaving their way past the other shoppers, and avoiding distractions, onward […]
This week Mom and Dad’s trainer invited us to participate in the big game! No, not the Super Bowl. Asa and I competed in Musical Heel/Sit! This is a special class their trainer does with his elite students. The big game’s line up included professional working dogs, service dogs, rally obedience champions, and yes, two […]
Ok, a word of clarification that Mom and Dad’s training class isn’t dismissed. However, if Mom and Dad’s trainer thinks he can arbitrarily dismiss our favorite release word, he has another thing coming! Their trainer thinks it would be less confusing for Mom and Dad if they change our release word from “ok” to “dismissed.” […]
Thus far in Mom and Dad’s obedience training we have focused on their polite leash walking and how to deal with mine and Asa’s celebrity status when human fans approach. Now we’re going to focus on training Mom and Dad on the polite greeting of dogs. However, it seems that Mom and Dad’s trainer and […]
Now that things are quieting down again, it’s time to resume Mom and Dad’s obedience training! Asa and I once again enrolled our parents for classes with their trainer who specializes in “helping dogs with human problems.” I have to admit though, they have certainly made a lot of progress since we started their training […]
You may have noticed from our Dog Friendly Places videos that we use head halters on our dogs. But often when we are out and about people have asked us why our Goldens are wearing muzzles! Head halters are not muzzles, rather they make it easier to control our dogs when they get excited in […]
