Oh, that Buster is such a cutie sharkie:)

OK, you’ve broken me, I’m going to train Frankie to do something for your training challenge. Something easy like taking over reading and commenting on all the blogs I haven’t caught up with yet, and writing my blog posts for me I think, lol! I wish:) I can’t even train myself to do that right now. Between mowing my lawns and taking Frankie and Beryl for a walk now, I should have time to come up with something to teach him. I hope so, otherwise I’ll be Googling dog tricks and watching Youtube videos all night which won’t really get me anywhere except even further behind:)

Hopefully Honey will be riding along by summer.

That is one adorable puppy you have. Love the shark in a fur suit analogy. Very fitting.

Wow this sounds like fun! My Human is always spending time training me. Most of the time it’s practicing skills I already know. I’d love the challenge of something new. Hope y’all have some ideas for the Human for this retriever who finds things hidden in trees or flower beds or fields.

Y’all come by now,
Hawk aka BrownDog

I think Honey will eventually overcome her fear of the cart. I agree, though, the slower you work on it, the better it will be. The more you can pretend you don’t see her when she’s investigating it, the better it might be.

I’ve read reviews that people have written that I thought were clever, and I’ve written some that I liked. When I have the chance to do a contest with it, it’s even better, but after our last photo contest experience, I guess I feel a little sour on it. I had someone go to Facebook and pull out the sympathy card that one of the photos she’d submitted was of a dog who’d passed away. So, instead of the photo that most of our true readers thought was the best and funniest, we had someone with a blurry, boring photo win because she turned it into a popularity contest. A bunch of people who don’t read the blog or comment all came and voted for their friend. When I do a review and/or a giveaway, I like to be creative and fun with it, but there seems to be no way around making it a popularity contest unless I make it a random drawing. I guess I’m still trying to find a way to write reviews that I think will engage people and entertain. Reviews for me mean less comments and readership, it seems, unless I make it something where people leave a comment to win. I just hate that it has to be so vanilla!

Your trainer gave such good advice. And it’s true. There is a voice urging you on when things go well.

Actually, in my case, it’s a full debate. “Should I try just one more? She’s doing so well.” “No stop, you dummy!” “Yes, but she’s having fun.” and on and on.

Sometimes I put the clicker aside for a while. But when it comes back out, Honey is so responsive. It’s amazing how it clarifies things for her. Now if I could only avoid those “false clicks” when my timing is off. 🙂

I guess it goes to figure that if dog years aren’t equivalent to human years the same is true for minutes and seconds. 🙂

I keep needing the “slow down” reminder over and over again.

Good luck with Howie and Justus.