I have wanted to blog about my First passion - Dogs, for a long time. I keep on regaling (and sometimes boring) people with stories of the dogs I have had, my husband dear, kindly suggested (maybe just so that he doesn't have to haer more about dogs ....again) to blog. I, however, was having trouble getting started.
I have a 8 years old Ladrador/collie mix. A very smart dog, who learnt her inital obedience stuff very quickly in her first year. Then I had my first kid and training her was last on priority. As years passed by I got more complacent and then I was reminded of the old adage that old dogs don't learn new tricks.
I got inspired to work with her again after watching some Dog whisperer episods. Have to admit that the dog was smarter than me.
Angel - my dog is almost perfect, she comes when called (without fail) doesn't bark too much (just a warning woof if someone is at door) is very nice and gentle with my kids. Walks awesome on loose leash or off leash. My problem - the only one, was that she was too friendly. Not that I minded that...but when a 100 lb dog is try to roll over for belly rubs near a stranger, it gets awkward more so when she gets tangled with their legs or their own dog and then she would do submissive peeing. Ughh....talk about embarassing.
It was bad enough that I would take her for walks at odd hours and try to avoid any human contact when I took her for walk. Well this year as the New year resolution, I decided that we both are going to walk more and to ensure that this was not a resolution that go broken before the first month was up I decided to start working on my dog.
Well after watching couple of episodes of dog whisperer I realised that I needed to work on myself more than on my dog. Then taking the challenge head on - I walked my dog stoping to say hello to everyone I met....the only thing differnt I did, was as soon as I saw Angel getting excited seeing a new person, I would correct her and when I started chatting I would make her sit down. I was amazed that in just one 30 min walk, Angel figured out what I was asking of her.
Now once I conquered the walk demon of mine (see I admit that the problem was mine all along) I decided that my dog needed to do more stuff. I have a awesome walker who walks right behind me even without leash and doesn't get distracted by every person who might gush over her.
Now on to losing some weight - her and mine:)
