This morning I came within one second of having a 100% successful walk with Lilly. We clicked-and-treated our way past a man and lady walking on the other side of the road, followed rapidly by a man on riding mower.
We got to our front porch where, flushed with success, I stopped to reward her for not having threatened to whoop up on any innocent passer-by for one entire walk. My neighbor chose that moment to yoo-hoo her greetings from the street. She actually yoo-hoos. The pandemonium shattered the delusions I was harboring about how quickly we were going to roll through this training. Did I just do three whole days of training for my health?
Mr. Cracker usually drives the dogs to the garbage dump in the evenings for a big roam-around. So far he hasn't taken the clicker. I'm starting to suspect I might be the lone dog trainer in the family.
Shiloh got a laugh out of my saying that if dolphins could learn this way, so could Lilly, quipping that dolphins are intelligent mammals. She actually quips.
Posted by floridacracker at January 25, 2005 07:40 PMUm, uh, cracker? You don't uh, actually hear like English words when Shiloh, uh, speaks to you ... do you?
Posted by: Bill from INDC at January 26, 2005 09:15 AMMore often, she uses Mr. Cracker as her ventriloquist's dummy.
Posted by: Donnah at January 26, 2005 10:06 AMI always envisioned something like Peanuts. The kids always seemed to know what Snoopy was thinking.
Posted by: James at January 26, 2005 11:05 AMHell, Wishbone speaks English. He has his own TV show, even.
Posted by: Donnah at January 26, 2005 12:32 PMOkay--who's Wishbone?
Posted by: James at January 26, 2005 02:02 PMWishbone!!
Posted by: Donnah at January 26, 2005 02:17 PM
