What my dogs teach me
I can’t believe it has been a year. But indeed it was December 28, 2021, when I welcomed boisterous eight-old-month Lewis into my life.
If you want to see the list of things I first identified as difficulties, here it is. But instead of creating a progress report based on that list, I’m just going to write about the ways we have learned to live well together.
Continue reading “Happy Gotcha Day to Lewis!”
Or: The Magic Buffalo Tug
In my post about the challenges of living with and training Lewis, I mentioned that the worst problem we faced was his hassling Clara to play. We’ve made some progress.
When he first came, his most frequent behavior toward her was humping. I remember telling Marge Rogers I had removed him or called him away dozens of times in a day. The humping diminished, thankfully. He does it far less frequently and less intensely and will happily dismount when I call him away.
But the next phase was tougher.
Continue reading “You Have to Stop! Interrupting Unwelcome Puppy Play Toward an Older Dog”
Whew! It’s more than a month later and I maybe, possibly, barely can write about how things have been with Lewis.
I had only a couple of days to prepare for Lewis before he came. I did three main things.
Continue reading “Training a Teenage Puppy”