The weekend has almost arrived…

We’ve been playing a lot of mind games lately…the good doggie training kind, not those that most people find annoying in relationships. Yesterday, hubbers put her in the down-stay with the leash twice (I think it’s game #4?). Once after he came home...

Woman Attacks Dog Breeder With Chihuahua

WOW! What is wrong with people these days? Although as I read this I couldn’t help but wonder just how big a 4 week old Chihuahua must be. Sligthly bigger than a hamster? I can’t even remember when our cats were that small but they still fit in the palm of...

Our first crate game experience

Since Ayla was being a bit of a pain this morning already and trying to play too rough, I decided I would distract her with some training to wear her out after breakfast. I started working her on the crate games since she’s only willing to go in her crate when a...

They might think I tried to kill her

Ayla and I are working on Mind Game #4: Patience right now. I am sitting at the dining room table working and I decided this might be a good time to give this “game” a try. So I pulled out the leash (she might have gotten the impression we would go for a...

Crate Games

Today I will hopefully start on a new crate training process with Ayla…I found a website a few weeks ago and really wanted to try what I found there but unfortunately when I went looking for it again, couldn’t find it anymore. But thankfully I finally...

Play time

Alya got to have a nice long play session with Fly (the Border Collie across the street) today. We were leaving for our evening walk when we saw our neighbor and Fly starting out as well so we caught up with her and made our doggy stroll together. The neighbor was...