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Date and Time Year: 2009 Month: 7
Tonight we were taking our walk around the block and we were stopped because there was a child on a little kiddie bike going by. They were taking their time, so Kody and I were just watching and doing “look at that” and giving him some time to process it. He was doing good. Then [...]
3 Big Dogs, (Almost) No Barking
Matt
Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 12:12pm
Today we had another breakthrough, although I can’t really explain why it went so well since we haven’t done a ton of work with other dogs. Kody and I were out on our morning walk and Kody had just gone poo. I took a good hard look around before picking it up because I know [...]
Mossyrock Blueberry Festival Wiener Races
Matt
Wednesday, July 22nd 2009 10:22am
Friend of the site Sheri Jones and her dogs Rizzo, Moxie, Polly, and her two fosters, Penny & Mac submitted this story using the “contribute” page in the menu above. Thanks Sheri! Here’s what she wants to tell us about: Mossyrock Blueberry Festival Wiener Races The Mossyrock Blueberry Festival Wiener Races are in less than [...]
This training has been so great because I’m learning new things every day and getting to know Kody so much better. Last time I think I talked about how Kody was a little nervous on parts of our walks and would not respond to the clicker right away. Instead he would stare intently at whatever [...]
We just got back from an interesting walk. One thing I’m learning to work with is Kody’s new lack of interest in treats. He’s still interested, but they don’t have the same motivational power they used to. It appears that with our new calmer walks he’s started actually processing our environment. Where he used to [...]
I've been watching golf lately and this commercial keeps coming up. This is how Kody acts when he has a bully stick and I love it. Kody even brings his bully stick to me to "deposit" when we go outside.