Monday, 14 April 2008

• Dream Big

  John repeatedly told me when I begged for a puppy that the true sign of a good dog is them being able to hold a treat on their nose until you tell them they can eat it. Then they must perfect the treat flicking until they can toss it up in the air and properly catch it in their mouth. (I know... dream big, right?)

  So, to ensure that my husband finds love in his heart for my new puppy best friend, Millie and I have been working to perfect her trick. (I think he likes her, but he just doesn't act like it yet.) It quite possibly could be due to the fact that she eats his socks whenever she gets the chance and bloody baby teeth fall out of her head onto our carpet each time we give her a delicious cow ear treat. I'll admit life was more simple before Millie, but she's just so stinkin' cute. Did I mention she was CUTE?

  She is just now getting stable enough to hold her nose in one place. Before, when I said stay, her body wouldn't move but her head would flail about like a bobble-head hula girl on the dash of a car, you know, kind of like Stevie Wonder. So now... we've got that part down. Her only problem is how to retrieve the treat from her snout without going cross-eyed and dropping it on the floor. (See example below.)

  This clip warms my heart... Hopefully it will warm John's someday, too. He just now learned to love the cat who turned three last Saturday. I think the dog purchase made him love the cat more. But I know he sneakily gives her nice pats behind her ears.

  Oh, and yes, I've become those annoying pet parents that I used to make fun of. She does not, however, sleep in my bed... yet....

   

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