My family leaves for vacation tomorrow and I get to go to training camp at Pawsitive Transformations, wahoo!! My puppy sitters picked me up tonight and took me to their house. We brought some of my toys, my crate and playpen, my food, and some special shampoo and medicine for my ears. (Dr. Alexander says I have a east affection or something- -it makes me itchy.) We took a short car ride to their house where I met another dog who looks just like me except for she’s WAY bigger and she doesn’t like to play so much. She lives here all the time and knows everything. After a while she let me sniff her, then we each got a toy to chew. I like her, and she doesn’t mind me being around – whew.
The pupprietors have a crate for me upstairs and downstairs. After they showed me around outside and I peed and played some, I went in a crate while they talked and watched a TV program. I cried a little ‘cause I wanted to explore, but they didn’t pay any mind, so I took a nap. Before bed, Mr. Bob took me out to a spot in the back yard and said something and then just stood around – that was odd. Later he did it again and I peed there and got a treat – I should try that again. Miss Susan said it’s okay to sleep in their room. I slept good all night.
Things to remember from Day Won…
- Stairs aren’t so scary
- Whining is pointless
- You get a treat EVERY TIME you show up when someone calls you (cool!)
- They speak dog here.
Day 2 – Friday Morning
Omigosh, I’m whooped. Mr. Bob got me up WAY early to go back to that boring spot in the yard. We stood around some then went back in and back to sleep. Pretty soon we did it again - he must like it there. I tried peeing there again and it worked – another treat. Then we played a chase game.
Later I trained Mr. Bob to give me a treat for a bunch of different tricks. I can sit, down, wait, stay, look, touch, come and who knows what all else and he understands to give me a treat for all of it. (Who’s a smarty? HE IS, oh yes!!!) He even let me play games while I ate my breakfast a kibble at a time.
Then it was back to the spot again. Just to mix it up, I pooped there this time, and wouldn’t you know it - more treats, then games with Kayla before a long walk. Since Mr. Bob is such a good student, I taught him to give me treats for walking nearby.
Later Miss Susan and Mr. Bob took me to Petco for a new harness – great place. I got to smell everything and some people gave me treats for sitting and lying down, and I met another dog who was big but nice enough. A woman asked Mr. Bob to come and teach her dogs the nice walking trick and to teach her huzzbind how to be nice to dogs. She says it’s easier to train dogs than huzzbinds. (duh!)
I’m back in my crate now with a peanut butter Kong, later I hope…. zzzzzzzz
Day 2 - Friday Evening
Hi again, sorry I drifted off… Okay, so I napped a while then woke up and peed on the carpet in Mr. Bob’s office. It’d been a few hours and when he let me out of the crate, he played with the fitting on my new harness for a bit before he took me out. He found the spot when he stepped on it and said, “hmmmm… what’d I think would happen?” I felt much better, and Mr. Bob showed me how he uses a Shop-Vac – neato!!!
Later Kayla and I took turns with more trick training. Kayla is AWE-some!!! Mr. Bob can put a treat right between her paws and tell her “wait.” She won’touch it, and he can even ask her to look at him or lay flat on her side for a while before he says “all done” and she gobbles it up. And he can tell her “stay” and then leave the room for a while and she doesn’t follow him or anything. Hope I can do that someday. Anyway, I know a lot of the words now. We hung out on the deck some and then went for another hike. Mr. Bob taught me to go down the slide at the play ground, and I love running to him fast when he says “come.” Now, I’m pooped again. This Kong thing makes eating kind of hard. I have to get used to it.
Things to remember from Day Tu…
· Mulch – not as tasty as it looks
· Spinning is easy
· Kayla has limited patience with puppiness
· Petco is FUN
· Squirrels are nuts
· A tired dog makes…. zzzzzz
Saturday
Hi again. Another day at camp PawsTrans, and I’m starting to think they don’t have as many food bowls here as we have at home. Poor Mr. Bob has to carry my chow around in his pocket most of the time and he doles it out a little by little whenever I do something he likes. I have to think of good things to do a lot, and it doesn’t leave much time for messin’ round. I’m glad to help out a little and give him lots of reasons to empty his pockets, but I’m a little hungry most of the time. Sometimes he won’t notice the first time I do something good, and I’ll have to do it better so he’ll take notice. I’m training him good though - when he does give me food he’s really paying attention! Anyway, he seems happy with me when I get stuff right, so it’s worth it - keeps me on my tows.
It’s hiking, hiking, hiking, here. Twice a day we haul our waggin’ behinds over to the soccer fields and playgrounds. I run up the hills and down checking out new smells, drainage grates, flutter-byes, plastic wrappers and the fence line where other dogs live. Mr. Bob loves to let me practice my recalls. When I get there fast, I get a whole handful of chow. Once I took a detoor to watch a lady walking by and didn’t get there in a straight line, and he forgot to give me a treat (humans are so easily distracted)! Now I come right to him to help him remember. If other dogs are around, I still forget, though. Yesterday he taught me to slide down the slide, just the small and middle ones so far - the big one makes me nervous.
When we walk I get to jump in a creek. If I throw myself on the water hard it makes splashy drops I can bite when they’re still in the air - FUN! I took a bath when I got home. That wasn’t so fun, but I was too tired to wiggle much, so I just rested my head on Mr. Bob’s knees while he washed off my east affection. I don’t feel as idjy today - he puts some goop in my ears everyday - that helps too!
When we walk I get to jump in a creek. If I throw myself on the water hard it makes splashy drops I can bite when they’re still in the air - FUN! I took a bath when I got home. That wasn’t so fun, but I was too tired to wiggle much, so I just rested my head on Mr. Bob’s knees while he washed off my east affection. I don’t feel as idjy today - he puts some goop in my ears everyday - that helps too!
I’m a lot more used to it here now, and let me tell you so when you come stay you’ll know… self control pays the rent at Pawsitive Transformations. You can whine and whine all you want, but nobody pays you any mind – might as well save your NRG. If there’s something you need, Miss Susan or Mr. Bob will be round soon enough when you cool your jets. Also, Kayla has a foolishness limit - she told me nicely (twice) to quite jumping on her head when Mr. Bob was untangling our leashes while we walked our short walk. Then she said it hard with a great big “woof n’ snap.” She was polite enough not to hurt me, but it scared me and I yelped and ran off - point taken, Miss Kayla. No more potty accidents since Friday for me. Mr. Bob loves to see me pee and poop in the yard - you’d think I was pooping biscuits, he’s that proud! I sleep good all night long, and I get naps in the daytime. Good Ness knows I need them, as Mr. Bob says. (Who’s Ness?)
Sunday
I got some breakfast and a potty break this morning, then we had to chill a while when Mr. Bob read his peemail on the Pooter. We did our hike at 9AM - I didn’t get my splashy drops on today on because of my bath last night, but I got to practice lots of tricks when we got near the spashy water, so no problem there. (Treat city, THANK you! =-)
This afternoon we went to the dawg park. Funny name cause the people park and the dogs run – gotta ask Miss Susan about that. I went to the little dogs part cause I’m not as big as I’ll get before you know it. For a while I watched the big dogs play in the big dog part. Some of them cane and sniffed me and we wagged tails and I rolled over but I couldn’t play cause of a fence. Then a chew-wow-wow named Remmy came. He rides Harleys (says so on his harness!) and I asked him to play and wrestle and he wouldn’t cause he was only half as big as me even though I was only half as old as him. He got a rekshun and he growled and Miss Susan made me come over to a bench and sit for a while. I splashed in the water fountain (FUN!). Then he sniffed around some and I went and sniffed big dogs at the fence some and we all wagged tails and peed on the fence. Then we went and visited Miss Pam and Mr. Mark and I took a glove and Mr. Bob taught me to trade and we went home and I took a nap. Now I’m finished with dinner and I need another nap.
Things to remember from days 3 and 4
· Chew-wow-wows are nervous and small
· All slides have chicken at the bottom
· Baths aren’t so scary when you’re pooped
· Riding in the car is overwhelping – sit on a back seat lap to feel better
· When all else fails, put your tummy on the ground and get a treat
· Mulch - tastes like it sounds
· Fences and trees smell like pee
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