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Canine Genius “Leo” Dog Toy is Really Genius
Matt
Saturday, October 17th 2009 9:22pm
For two years now, I have been searching for a fun dog treat release toy that my dog would enjoy, hopefully to release his dinner kibble. Kongs have potential, but if I freeze moist kibble it takes a little too long to get out. His tongue can’t reach the last bits and it really frustrates [...]
One thing my trainer instructed me to do was start mat training with my dog. So recently, we did. I was surprised at how good Kody was at staying on the mat and at first he would even do it for his regular dry food. You basically have the dog sit and lay and wait [...]
It’s a sign of how long it takes to learn to train a dog, and also our slow but steady success that I have so many posts on this subject. I have a difficult time coming up with distinct post titles. Today we had our most pleasant walk ever. I realize that as I’m teaching [...]
Meditation While Walking the Dog
Matt
Sunday, October 11th 2009 7:43pm
Tonight Kody and I went on a longer walk using what I have recently learned about having Kody pay attention to me. I’m getting better at telling when Kody has almost lost attention or has completely lost attention. My goal is to reward before he completely loses attention and lengthen the period of time before [...]
Kody was reserved all last night and didn’t get up to give me my usual kisses. This morning I found him under the covers and scratched his neck and he licked my hand. He seemed to have a really good range of motion in his neck and I could tell he wasn’t in pain because [...]
Tonight I think Kody hurt his back. I got up while he was laying next to me on the couch and when I returned he was standing up on a different part of the couch not moving. He stayed almost perfectly still for a while and then finally gently laid down. He wouldn’t move or [...]