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May 12, 2005
Old Dog, New Trick
In Cody news, after several years of not trying to teach him much of anything, Cody learned a new command yesterday.
Lay down? Roll over? Fetch Timmy from the Well?
Nooooo... I taught him to SPEAK.
That's right, my dog will now bark on command. Handy, yes? Well I think so. Cody is really smart— I worked with him about fifteen minutes on Monday and we didn't quite get it. Then he barked at Kim last night as they were playing, and I told him "Good Speak" as I had been doing to other day. And after that, he had it.
I should really work with him more. He has so much energy and he's really quite bright. He's still smarter than Darian, and we're always talking to her like she's so special :-)
I should get this dog into agility trials. I would have already, but his disciplne goes out the window whenever a new dog or a new person comes around. He's hyper-friendly. With people. With dogs, he's just kind of everybody's little bitch. I think he suffered at the hands of the other dogs at the pound.
Of course, it's the fault of his previous owners. Anyone who would name a dog "Soda Pop" and then put him into the penal system was condeming that dog to permanent bitch status. Honestly.
Posted by john at May 12, 2005 09:12 AM