Ace did not do so well on his commands yesterday. This is our hardest challenge so far, and I do not know if Ace will successfully learn the five commands within 30 days. Well, I don’t know if I will be able to successfully teach him the commands in 30 days. The mutt kept getting …
Ace rolled over on command today for the first time! Good boy! He only did it one time, though. I really made a big deal when he did it right, like he just won an Olympic gold medal (he thought he had). Now he is slowly improving on all five commands. Hopefully in the next …
What to do before you board your dog to make sure everything goes OK.
I started to teach my mutt the commands “crawl” and “go long” this week. Noticed I said started teaching him these things. While teaching my mutt, I have learned it is best to teach in very, very basic steps. By breaking the training into the simplest steps possible, my mutt begins to understand. I am …
I come from a family of dog lovers – my mom, dad and two brothers are all crazy about dogs like me. But while visiting my family last weekend, I realized that nondoglovers put up with a lot from their family members who do love dogs. Take my grandma, for example, a nondoglover who must …
It must’ve taken Ace 100 repetitions to understand bang (play dead), but he finally has it down, pretty much. Seriously, how hard is it to just lie on your side? I don’t know how I could’ve made it any easier for the mutt, but he was slow to pick this one up. I taught him …
I make the mistake of giving my mutt a command more than once. For example, I tell him to sit more than once if he doesn’t do it right away. It’s usually something like, “Sit…SIT!” And then he sits. What I am doing is training him to sit on the second (or third) command, which …
Today was my cat Scout’s third birthday. I spend so much time and energy worrying about Ace that Scout doesn’t always get the attention he needs.
Today is July 1 and the start of my new 30-day challenge. I am taking the suggestions of others and plan on teaching my mutt five new tricks in 30 days. He knows all the basics, plus a few fun ones like speak and high-five, and more useful commands such as drop, jump and climb …
Newfoundlands just might be the most gentle dogs there are. Before I started my pet sitting and dog running business, I used to pet sit for a Newfoundland named Wallee. Wallee (pictured below, left) didn’t realize his size and liked to cuddle up next to me on the couch with his head in my lap. …