RICHARD
06-24-2012, 03:21 PM
That is an all-star four letter word in the house.
Tucker Dogg has learned to spell.
He can be asleep - dead asleep - and if the word is spoken, he will jump up and in no time at all, be chairside.
Tail wagging, jumping from foot to foot, ready to go out for his daily fun.
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Actually?
It's worse than that. In the last week and a half, I have tried a small experiment with the Tuckster.
I go out to pick up the newspaper and I have allowed him to go out as far as the curb, sans leash.
He goes out to the big bush and with me constantly monitoring him, pees, sniffs around, comes back to the house, pees on the solar powered house sign and comes back in.
Not bad, I thought, but I have created a monster of sorts.
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Back in Late Feb/March the weather was colder and I needed to dress up a little to go out.
I'd put on my shoes, grab a jacket, my hat and a plastic bag.
No problem?????
Now?
If I pick up a plastic bag and it rattles?
If I pick up my hat or a jacket?
If I put on my shoes?
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It gets to the point where, if I sneak into the other room to put my shoes on, the dog is there, peeking into my room - If I close the door, he whines.
And it's the pleading whine. Did I mention the "happy dance"?
The HD is a little 'two step' T does when he gets excited to go outdoors.
It's a bark and these counter clockwise spins that get faster if we get up to let him out.
(On the days when he is really excited, I have counted 16 spins - A new world record!)
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The best spins happen when he moves across the room and when the Edster is asleep on a piece of furniture.
Tuck's tail goes whipping about and eventually finds Ed.
Ed wakes up, or when he sees it coming?
He recoils in that careful-cat-way, miffed enough to go find another spot.
Unless that spot is the newly washed fake sheep skin that started life as a cat rug and now, will dog smell and dog snot on it, is no place for a cat nap. That's another story.
All in all it's fun to have them both living together.
They both can 'walk the walk', my problem is that I cannot 'talk the walk'?:eek:
Tucker Dogg has learned to spell.
He can be asleep - dead asleep - and if the word is spoken, he will jump up and in no time at all, be chairside.
Tail wagging, jumping from foot to foot, ready to go out for his daily fun.
----------------
Actually?
It's worse than that. In the last week and a half, I have tried a small experiment with the Tuckster.
I go out to pick up the newspaper and I have allowed him to go out as far as the curb, sans leash.
He goes out to the big bush and with me constantly monitoring him, pees, sniffs around, comes back to the house, pees on the solar powered house sign and comes back in.
Not bad, I thought, but I have created a monster of sorts.
------------
Back in Late Feb/March the weather was colder and I needed to dress up a little to go out.
I'd put on my shoes, grab a jacket, my hat and a plastic bag.
No problem?????
Now?
If I pick up a plastic bag and it rattles?
If I pick up my hat or a jacket?
If I put on my shoes?
----------------
It gets to the point where, if I sneak into the other room to put my shoes on, the dog is there, peeking into my room - If I close the door, he whines.
And it's the pleading whine. Did I mention the "happy dance"?
The HD is a little 'two step' T does when he gets excited to go outdoors.
It's a bark and these counter clockwise spins that get faster if we get up to let him out.
(On the days when he is really excited, I have counted 16 spins - A new world record!)
----------------------
The best spins happen when he moves across the room and when the Edster is asleep on a piece of furniture.
Tuck's tail goes whipping about and eventually finds Ed.
Ed wakes up, or when he sees it coming?
He recoils in that careful-cat-way, miffed enough to go find another spot.
Unless that spot is the newly washed fake sheep skin that started life as a cat rug and now, will dog smell and dog snot on it, is no place for a cat nap. That's another story.
All in all it's fun to have them both living together.
They both can 'walk the walk', my problem is that I cannot 'talk the walk'?:eek: