Swimming. I Haz It.
Originally uploaded by merrindonahue
Senor Smalliver is learning more and more every day, although he’s still having quite a bit of trouble with learning that *outside* is where he should pee. Yesterday we put him in the pool, and he absolutely hated it. We did make him swim to the edge twice, though, just so we knew he could. Chloe sinks like a stone, and Rigley panics too much, but Oliver did great. We also thought it was important to introduce him to the pool so he would know that 1) he doesn’t like it and 2) he should stay away from it.
I enrolled the two of us in Puppy School today (the dog and me, not Kev and me), and we start on Wednesday. It’s a 6 week class, and after that we’ll head to Basic Training, then Clicker Training, then Tricks, and then we’re getting his Canine Good Citizenship certification. This dog is gonna be Einstein by the time I’m done with him. We didn’t have the time (or the money) to do that with the other dogs way back in the day, but this dog is getting the works.
Yeah, he may make us crazy sometimes, but nothing in the world beats a good puppy snorgle in the morning!
July 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I’ll settle for him learning not to eat the power cords. Put that on the puppy school list. 😉