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Yes, I’ve been awarded this title by all my doggie friends, and I treasure the recognition greatly. Of course, I bribed them with dog biscuits first but, hey, what’s food among friends for?
Which is why we don’t own a boat or have a pool. We know people that do . . .
Love your doggie post, Susan. But you knew I would.
Also loved to see a photo of you. I wish everyone on Ricochet would post a photo of themselves. I especially like photos of people doing things, like the one you have with a culotted Susan on a bicycle with a dog in the front carrier.
God must have been in a good mood when He created dogs.
Sorry, Kent. That’s not me with Addy. That’s a neighbor. If you want to see my pix, it’s attached to this comment. But if I had a dog, I’d want her to be hip like Addy.
But here’s little me–
Thanks, Susan. That’s a very hip look you’ve got going there.
Susan looks 20 years younger than that!
Amen to that! Met Susan and her hubby at a pre-cruise Fort Lauderdale meetup. Wonderful folks!
@rightangles and @stad, are you guys referring to the photo in comment #4? Do I look old there?
No, the picture of the neighbor that Kent mistook for a picture of you, and no you don’t look old.
Now you probably think I dressed too young for my age. Oh my!
I do not! And anyway I made my first comment from my phone and I hadn’t seen that picture of you, the one that really was you!
And here is a little guy I’m babysitting for this week while his mom is out of town:
Oh my gosh, it’s Amber in a white coat!!!! Too cute!
NEVER!
Love your dog post, but after several weeks with my sister’s ill behaved, untrained, 4 year old standard poodle I’ll pass. She calls him her service dog, but service he gives is barking at everything, knocking her down, and at times biting people.
I don’t care whose dog it is–you bite, you go. But you’re nicer than I am, @kayofmt!
Am not, I am devious per my sister. She left after 12 days saying she didn’t feel welcome after I kept her dog out of my quarters where I had stashed my parrots. And of course I complained about the barking, and dog piles in the yard, made her clean them up. He also growled and snapped at Kaylett’s service dog. Sis paid several thousand $$ for that dog. I would have it put down and call it a lesson learned.
I sent you a photo of a lovely dog, that I don’t know how to post. That is Chancey, Kaylett’s service dog that gets a cookie when Kaylett stops for coffee.
That is such a shame. Standards are so easy to train (especially when young – tho it’s not too late). Maybe you can start while he’s with you. One thing is to not let him go out of a door first nor let him go back in first (use a leash). That will let him know who the alpha is and after he knows that you may be able to make more progress.
I still miss mine terribly.
You have the ideal condition. I do not want to own dogs, nor to have them in my house. Too much hair, mess, and bits of dog toy spread all over. I want a neighbor who needs their dog walked and occasionally played with. Walking someone else’s dog would be ideal. However, children want puppies so I walk my daughter’s dog.
What a delightful post and job – we have the doggiest neighborhood too and although we have a cat, I love greeting them and would love to have one too. We finally had to install pet stations around the neighborhood…..
Nice photos.
Does this mean that the Susan Quinn posts are going to turn into the Jonah Goldberg twitter page?
(Just kidding…)
Bond J. Bond, guarding a rare Sealyham Terrier egg.
I have a cousin with a beautifully trained standard, spent a couple of weeks with her last summer and would have brought her dog home with me if she would have let me. Did I mention that my sister is a pussy hat wearing liberal? When she first bought the puppy, I did my best to explain about training that dog. She refused to do anything I suggested because it might hurt his feelings. Now I know a bit about training dogs: my mother and I raised and trained Rottweilers for 10 years, they weren’t sold until 6 months old and completely socialized and had pasted temperament trials. In addition I was a 4-H dog project leader for many years. Kaylett, at ages 14 and 15 won the CA State Jr. Dog Handling Championships.
I was given orders to not touch or say a word to her dog only Kaylett
No worries!
I am so sorry to have assumed you might have needed a thought or two on dog training. Please forgive me.
My word. Rottweilers. You are to be commended. A std poodle would be a piece of cake if your sister had followed even one or two of your suggestions. “[I]t might hurt his feelings.” Dear heavens. She shouldn’t be allowed to be around dogs, let alone own one.
Again, please forgive my presumptuousness.
Dear heart, there is nothing to forgive. You couldn’t possibly have known about my background. And everybody can use a little help. I recently learned something new about dressage horse training, and Kaylett corrected me about a change in the way of a particular aspect of dog training. New methods are always coming into fashion. I never, ever take offense when someone is trying to help. Plus every dog is different. Poodles are easy, try training a Lhasa Apso.
I notice that most dog training books use German shepherds or labs as examples and have been so frustrated at getting my dog to heel. He’s a sealyham terrier and very smart. He’s never made a mess in the house and hasn’t chewed up anything for the three years I’ve had him. But although he is getting better, he does not like to heel consistently.
I finally found a book that is different. It’s about dogs the author calls “When Pigs Fly” dogs. http://ipad.whenpigsflydogtraining.com She explains that some dogs, terriers for instance, are bred to act independently and labs and shepherds are bred to respond to people. Breeding will win out. You need different motivations for the terriers.
So I took her book to heart and used her method of teaching the dog to respond to me. Every time I said his name and he looked up I would shove a treat in his mouth. We did this on walks and it worked! Every time I said his name he would look up and get a treat. Then we went on the third walk with this method. Sure enough, when he heard his name, he would get so happy! And to him happy means a squirrel is nearby, so every time he heard his name he would lunge to where he imagined might be a squirrel.
I think I have more reading to do.
A trainer once told us that sometimes really smart dogs are harder to train.
Your dedication is impressive, @skyler! Keep going!