Tag Fear

Tennis Court Training

Matt
Wednesday, January 20th 2010 6:00am
Tennis Court Training The weather has really been warming up around here so Kody and I have started some tennis court training. Kody wants to be outside again, and I have always wanted to give him more time to be off leash. It’s pretty fun. We couldn’t use the tennis court before because I really didn’t have any [...]

Hot and Cold, Dachshund Fear in the Middle of a Walk

Matt
Wednesday, January 13th 2010 1:38pm
Hot and Cold, Dachshund Fear in the Middle of a Walk Today Kody and I started out on the best walk we’ve had in a long time. I have been working hard to pay attention to Kody’s needs when walking and today he decided all on his own that he wanted to go on a longer walk. I was so happy, and as I suspected, dogs [...]

Recognizing and Working Through Fear

Matt
Thursday, January 7th 2010 12:37pm
Kody is quite the dog. On the day he was given to me, we all went to Petco with Kody and his brother Flex. Flex was fine, but Kody was scared to death and shaking, and eventually threw up. What I didn’t know at the time was that this is who Kody was going to [...]

It’s Me or the Dog – Nervous Newlyweds

Matt
Sunday, January 3rd 2010 12:48am
It’s Me or the Dog has started up again. I was pleased to see that this episode featured six dachshunds (and three other dogs). One of the dachshunds, Oscar, was displaying classic dachshund “aggression”. After working with Kody so much, when I watch dog training TV my nonsense detectors are on high. I like Victoria [...]

Potty Indecision

Matt
Tuesday, December 15th 2009 12:47am
Kody is having a tough winter. I think he may prefer the cold weather that we were having to the wet weather that we are having. He does this thing where he loiters around the front door when he needs to go out but he won’t commit to it because he can tell it’s raining. [...]

Fire Station High Pitched Sound

Matt
Sunday, November 15th 2009 1:38pm
I posted this once, but then put it back into ‘pending review’ because, well, this has just been a hard time. But now I kind of have some confirmation of what’s going on, and a bit of a happy ending, so I edited the post and here it is once again. This morning I took [...]