Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Harnesses are evil

Well, we've officially entered what I like to affectionately call "Brat-ville".

Nadia naturally has a bit of a bossy personality, but she aims to please. (As most dogs.) Lately, however, she's decided that doing the exact opposite of what I want is hilarious. I've gotten her a harness, but she refuses to walk on it. We even tried purchasing a different type of harness, with little more success than the other.

She loves to be dragged around by her rope toy, she'll put her back legs behind her in a "superman" pose and we'll walk around the living room. Well, now she's decided that the harness can work for this same purpose, since it doesn't affect her neck like a leash clearly would. She'll lay on the ground and flip over on her side or back to ensure that I can't force her to walk. What a brat! That's okay though, it's funny in hindsight, but boy at the time it sure isn't. :)

In other news, we started officially learning "come when called" yesterday. We use the term "hustle" because "come" is so overused, that way we can ensure that it is never accidentally used in a negative way, or overused so she'll ignore it. Basically it's the emergency "get here NOW" command. She did very well in class and picked it up quickly, but clearly it'll take some time before it would be usable in an emergency situation.

Well, off to work!

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