Tag Barking

A Few Good Walks, Kids and Even Dogs

Matt
Saturday, September 12th 2009 11:03pm
The last couple of days Kody and I have had some good walks. Today, we ran into some parents with kids on bikes with training wheels. Kody was good, he actually barked a couple of times, but it wasn’t that scary kind of barking, it was the cute “I want to play” kind. I actually [...]

Crying Babies and Barking Dachshunds

Matt
Wednesday, September 9th 2009 4:07pm
I’m sitting in Panera and just finished eating soup in a bread bowl, which is a recent favorite of mine. Today I had “summer corn chowder” which is not a good choice, by the way. The soup is… weird. It’s edible, but I’d advise you to stay away. The others are good. Anyway, a woman [...]
Yesterday morning I ran into a rather funny problem. We ran into a nice neighborhood dog with a really nice owner. We saw them and I asked if she wouldn’t mind just staying still while I did some work with Kody. She said sure, and so I started training. I walked Kody toward her dog [...]

Growling Dachshund

Matt
Wednesday, September 2nd 2009 12:08am
I’m sitting here working on the computer and Kody heard a noise. He barked a couple of times and has been sitting at my feet for about the last three minutes letting out little growls. He seems to be stuck on it. It reminds me of a couple of things, that in many ways we [...]

Kody’s Personality Changes

Matt
Saturday, August 29th 2009 9:41pm
Kody and I just went outside for a quick pee. Well, he did the peeing. Tonight he wandered over to look at something we hadn’t looked at before. It’s was an area quite close to us, just a few feet away really, but we had never gone there because in the past Kody probably would [...]

Teaching a Dog to Come… or Not.

Matt
Thursday, August 27th 2009 11:32am
I can hear when one of my neighbors is trying to get their dog to come. Usually it’s a bit of a fight. There’s a man and a woman, and they both do it the same way. Right now it’s the woman who has been desperately trying to get their dog to come. She started [...]