Tell Me Thursday
1. Stopping your dog – what do you prefer? On their feet? On their belly? Some combination?
2. At what point do you start teaching this?
I think this is a herding thing. I can’t think of anything where I have a stop/halt command in a training situation. Dylan stops on his contacts but there isn’t a seperate command for it, and I’ve never trained the Table since we never see it. Huh.
3. Do you have a favorite dog? I won’t tell.
I can’t lie. Kim is my favourite. I wish I had words to express further, but I don’t. I could write pages about her and still never get close to what makes her extraordinary to me.
4. What is the #1 thing a dog can do to push your buttons?
Lots of things. Dylan’s neuroticism. Latest phrase of exasperation was “Dylan, the balloon isn’t going to suddenly float down from the ceiling and eat you, you don’t have to watch it for 3 hours without blinking oh god please look at something else!” Mollie’s need to not just share the sofa but the same cushion. Kim’s incessant barking. I mean properly constant monotone bark-bark-bark when she starts because she thinks she might have heard something through the fogged up parts of her ears and then forgets why she’s barking and can’t stop. (Old dogs suck). Rio doesn’t have anything specifically annoying yet, although it’s pretty irritating when she starts alarm barking at my reflection in the window. It’s not someone outside Ree, it’s me! I’m behind you, waving!
5. Brrrrr… it’s winter. What is your favorite soup recipe?
Why are there so many cooking and herding questions on this thing?! I do neither of those things! (I love Carrot or Tomato or Potato soup. Delicious.)
3 Comments
Laura Carson
There are so many herding questions because I host these particular TMTs and I’m a stockdog person. 😉 I realize and appreciate that non-herding people join in, so most of the time I try to keep the questions generic so that most dog people can answer. Sometimes it doesn’t work (though many of my agility friends have answered the stop question this week). There are so many cooking questions cuz I like to talk about food. I’d love to hear any suggestions you might have for questions – I keep the floor open. 🙂
Leanne
Sorry Laura, I didn’t mean for you to feel like you had to defend your questions 🙂 It was intended to be a tongue-in-cheek remark but I should know by now those don’t come across on the internet! 😛 I’m really unimaginative with food so it makes me laugh that I always end up with food-related questions on things like this.
Laura Carson
No worries! I really do mean that though – I’d love any question suggestions you might have. 🙂