Dog Training

Here I go again about the new dog. She came to us being house broken, which puts her one up on me. But, there are some things that dogs are supposed to do, like play ball, walk on a leash, sit, roll over and all that stuff. My financial controller is supposed to train the dog.  But so far she hasn’t done any training, so I am helping out.

Because said fleabag is already 7 months old, it is important to get her started on training. She really hated the leash on the first day, but has done surprisingly well the following days. I think tying the leash to the golf cart helped. By the time I made the block the second time, she was keeping up.

Dogs are supposed to fetch the ball. It’s in the book of rules for dogs somewhere. The procedure is for the human to throw the ball and the dog goes and gets it and returns it and drops the ball so the process can be repeated until the dog is "dog tired" and is ready for sleep at night. Not this dog. She loves to go get the ball, but will hold onto it like a vise. No amount of prying or coaxing will get her to let it go. I think I have solved the problem. All our floors in the lean-to are tile. I just let her keep the ball and I slide her across the room with the ball in her mouth. Hey, it works.

There are legitimate reasons I never became a dog trainer.

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