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by RLHAR on 28 March 2010 - 18:03
First off I wanted to say thank you to everybody for your kind words and support in regards to my father. He's coming home tomorrow, feeling his usual irrasable self and there is now a string of friends closeby who are aware of his stubbornness and who will be checking on him regularly.
We'll see how this works, hopefully he learned his lesson and has a better understanding of what it means to be on his own now.
So on a slightly more amusing side of life.
I have, as you know, been dog/house sitting this whole week while he's in the hospital. This involves wrangling his two labs. My little girl, my travel companion, has also been with me.
The labs have of course been suffering from seperation anxiety but they're not exactly the most well trained individuals to begin with. In particular, I've had to take to leading them from the house to the backyard gate and back. It's not that far of a jaunt but if I don't lead them, they will bolt off.
The older lab is fairly well mannered about having a hand on her collar but the 1 year old has 0 leash manners (something we've been working on while I'm down here) anyway, needless to say it's a bit of a rodeo in and out of the door.
Here is where my little girl steps in. After only one command to 'stay!' once inside the gate, she has now adopted the following policy for Mom.
I open the door to the house and she is first one out, goes into the yard off to the side of the gate and waits for me and the two labs. Then, when coming back to the house, I have the gate open, wrestle the two labs back into the house and look over my shoulder where my girl is politely standing just inside the open gate to the yard, waiting for me to release her to follow me into the house. It's been two days since she adopted this habit and she's done it every single time we go in and out of the house to the yard and back.
Aaaahhhhhh a well trained dog in a sea of insanity. And people wonder why I always clarify that I am a German Shepherd lover.
We'll see how this works, hopefully he learned his lesson and has a better understanding of what it means to be on his own now.
So on a slightly more amusing side of life.
I have, as you know, been dog/house sitting this whole week while he's in the hospital. This involves wrangling his two labs. My little girl, my travel companion, has also been with me.
The labs have of course been suffering from seperation anxiety but they're not exactly the most well trained individuals to begin with. In particular, I've had to take to leading them from the house to the backyard gate and back. It's not that far of a jaunt but if I don't lead them, they will bolt off.
The older lab is fairly well mannered about having a hand on her collar but the 1 year old has 0 leash manners (something we've been working on while I'm down here) anyway, needless to say it's a bit of a rodeo in and out of the door.
Here is where my little girl steps in. After only one command to 'stay!' once inside the gate, she has now adopted the following policy for Mom.
I open the door to the house and she is first one out, goes into the yard off to the side of the gate and waits for me and the two labs. Then, when coming back to the house, I have the gate open, wrestle the two labs back into the house and look over my shoulder where my girl is politely standing just inside the open gate to the yard, waiting for me to release her to follow me into the house. It's been two days since she adopted this habit and she's done it every single time we go in and out of the house to the yard and back.
Aaaahhhhhh a well trained dog in a sea of insanity. And people wonder why I always clarify that I am a German Shepherd lover.
by poseidon on 28 March 2010 - 19:03
Glad to hear your dad will be discharged from hospital and soon will be reunited with his labs. Hopefully all will pan out well for all concern with the arrangement you have made.
Rlhar, you should appoint your clever little girl to train the labs. Dogs do mimic behaviour faster with their own species :)
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