{"id":730,"date":"2008-11-21T16:17:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.undermybed.co.uk\/archives\/730"},"modified":"2008-11-21T16:17:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:17:42","slug":"controversy-blogs-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Controversy, Blogs, Tricks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trawling about trying to find something to blog about &#8212; everywhere is quiet at the moment! No major controversies about (that I can find!) so I did think about starting one, but that seemed like an awful lot of work. I was going to blog about &#8220;Barbie Collies&#8221; following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giruff.com\/\">Inca&#8217;s Reserve Best of Breed win<\/a>, which is a controversial topic (Barbie Collies, not the RBOB), but is also seriously confusing and seems more American than British. Anyway, I can solve it easily, because I know a dog from pure show lines who is the most work-y collie in existence. I have to admit that she doesn&#8217;t herd because she&#8217;s a flyball dog, but her owner has been offered a considerable amount of money by farmers and working stock breeders for her, untrained, because they think she has so much potential. Most of them can&#8217;t actually believe she&#8217;s a proper show dog, but there you go.<\/p>\n<p>So instead, my two new favourite blogs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threewoofs.blogspot.com\/\">Three Woofs &amp; A Woo<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/justmoredogs.blogspot.com\/\">Just Another Dog Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we are getting bored over here. Kim has already tried to leave home by attempting to go down a badger sett, but she&#8217;s a bit bigger than she thinks she is and couldn&#8217;t fit. She did get very dirty and needed a bath though. Dylan took a different approach and decided that if he smelt really really bad, we&#8217;d have to give him away. He also got very dirty, and had his second bath this week. Third, if you count hydro as a bath. Mollie is happy sleeping on her trampoline and letting her ear hair grow back, but she has already notched up one escape attempt this month.<\/p>\n<p>So, if anyone has any trick suggestions, please let me know! Dylan and Kim can do<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sit<\/li>\n<li>Down<\/li>\n<li>Stay<\/li>\n<li>Wait<\/li>\n<li>Stand<\/li>\n<li>Paw (left and right)<\/li>\n<li>Beg<\/li>\n<li>Crawl<\/li>\n<li>Rollover<\/li>\n<li>Twist Left\/Right<\/li>\n<li>Back up<\/li>\n<li>Leg weave (stationary and moving, and it&#8217;s really hard not to stand on them)<\/li>\n<li>Dead<\/li>\n<li>Sad Face<\/li>\n<li>Retrieve various articles, including newspapers\/&#8221;post&#8221; left in another room<\/li>\n<li>Bow<\/li>\n<li>Shut the Door<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dylan can also cover himself with a blanket and do &#8220;flat&#8221;, and Kim can do &#8220;kill it&#8221; which means she shakes whatever she&#8217;s holding madly or (if she has nothing in her mouth), attacks the nearest thing to her. Without actually harming them, she knows to be gentle.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions? Indoor games are hard with three dogs, they all get too competitive and noisy, so we have to make do with tricks.<\/p>\n<p>[Edited to add: Thanks guys! I&#8217;ve actually found <a href=\"http:\/\/brisbeethewhite.livejournal.com\/264158.html\">this fantastic list of tricks<\/a> which has given me quite a few ideas &#8230; !]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trawling about trying to find something to blog about &#8212; everywhere is quiet at the moment! No major controversies about (that I can find!) so I did think about starting one, but that seemed like an awful lot of work. 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