October 10, 2013 Absolutely no progress. I’ve been taking A.J. to a personal dog trainer. I’ve been working with him. I’ve tried everything on our walks. Nothing is working. No progress at all. We went for a walk this morning. He did pretty well. He didn’t pull very much, and when we walked past a …
Tag: obedience training
No Such Thing As a Day Off
September 9, 2013 A.J. had a good early morning. Now he’s crazy. He woke me up around 6:15. I got up and let him out, waited 5 minutes, then let him in again. He laid down on his bed and went back to sleep. (Well, he didn’t go right to sleep. His foot still hasn’t …
Frustrating Day
September 7, 2013 Today hasn’t been a great A.J. day. He was up around 6:30 and refused to settle down again. (Did I mention that today is Saturday?) I sent him out and went back to bed. About 5 minutes later he started to bark. I didn't want him to bother the neighbors that early in …
A.J. Meets Sky
August 31, 2013 A.J. got to meet Sky yesterday. Sky is a dachshund who belongs to A.J.'s Grandma Lucy (my mother-in-law). She and my brother-in-law Chuck are here for the three day weekend and brought Sky with them. A.J. was so excited, he loves playing with other dogs. Unfortunately, I've never really classified Sky as …
A.J. Gets a Cone of Shame
August 24, 2013 A.J. got a cone of shame a couple of days ago. His foot started to heal nicely, but I couldn’t keep him from scratching his face. I had a horrible day that day. I went to do some volunteer work at a local organization, but it turned out to be a very frustrating, …
A.J. Goes Back to the Vet
August 19, 2013 Today we start A.J.’s third round of antibiotics since we adopted him three and a half weeks ago. Today we went to the vet again because he needed his parvo booster, plus his cheatgrass abscess wasn’t healing up very well. We saw Dr. Frost, the same vet we saw last time. He …
A.J.’s First Private Lesson
August 16, 2013 We had another lesson in getting up too early in the morning today. Greg got up just before 6:30 to let A.J. out. A.J. came back in and was wide awake. I petted him for a little bit, but he got right up again. A few minutes later he was at the door …
A.J. Growls for Attention
August 15, 2013 A.J. barfed up his entire breakfast again this morning. Today A.J. growled at me. I had been gone for several hours that morning, so he was a little amped up to see me when I got home. Instead of immediately going and playing with A.J. I went into Greg's office to talk to …
A.J. Progress
August 7, 2013 I noticed yesterday that A.J. has a little heart-shaped spot on his front paw. A.J. is doing really well in the house. He was home alone for about an hour in the morning, then for about three hours in the afternoon, and nothing was destroyed. And tonight I left the bedroom door …
Behavior Issues
August 5, 2013 We’re well into week 2 of A.J. He’s actually coming along pretty well. We left him yesterday for 2 hours and he tore apart a Kleenex box and knocked over a plastic cup of water that was on the kitchen table. Not great, but not bad. Today we left him for 2 …
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