Dog training - A bit less enthusiasm, please.

[rimturse]

May: "Sit"
Lia: *plonks butt onto ground*
May: *walks 15 meters, stops, turns around, waits.*
Lia: *waits*
May: "Come"
Lia: *RUNS*
May: *starts to worry*
Lia: *RUNS*
May: "Lia, stop! Sto- Ooohmpffff!"
Lia: I is here!

Comments

[pingdk aka patti (from livejournal.com)]

I always love your doggy tales - because I can absolutely picture the whole thing and relate to it!

[frigg.livejournal.com]

heh, thanks! :)

[angrboda]

If you step aside at the last moment you can probably make her run in circles. :p At least it worked with the late Pascal. He was also the sort to come running towards you and not stop until something (you) was in the way. One time I came home from school walking along a bicycle path where I met my dad and Pascal coming the other way. Because there was no traffic, dad had let him run loose. I chose to sit down on the ground pretty quickly after Pascal spotted me, which turned out to be wise because he still tipped me over and sat on me until dad caught up.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Belgians tend to use you as a bumper. I think it has something to do with the way they herd by physically bumping into the sheep and cows to make them move.

Lia will do a "på plads" if I tell her that instead of come, where she'll run around me and then sit on my left side, but I'd like her to do a nice competition come, where she stops before hitting me and sits straight in front of me. :p

I read the funny story about Pascal on Rebecca's website. Absolutely hilarious, I wish I could have met him. He sounds as if he was a great dog.

[angrboda]

He was a lovely Pyls. What my dad wrote there actually covered his personality quite well with that sort of thing. When we got him he used to write emails home, which have sadly gone lost, because some of them were hilarious. Like the time we'd had him for a fortnight and he decided he wanted to herd cows. So he did. The bull wasn't all that keen on being herded... Luckily Pascal retreated before it got really cross. Can't really remember what other stuff he wrote about but there was probably some complaining about the cat.

He was the nicest dog ever to people (don't know about burglars, as far as we know he never met a burglar), except for his extreme small-child-phobia. Rather domineering with other dogs though. Alpha male to the bone and beyond.