Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Not unless you're a good girl...

Help us, PLEASE!! This past Sunday, we had Mr. Harry Oakes, search and rescue dog trainer, over to our house to help us in our training. Cider, as most of you are aware, loves to greet people by jumping up on them. We would really love to break her of this habit, especially before rain and mud come back again, and we are going to need your help.

Please please please, if Cider comes to say hello to you, make her sit before giving her any kind of attention. Ignore her otherwise, turn your back to her, say no and give a little knee so she'll get down, anything! Once she sits nicely, then you can bend down to her level and say hello. She's never going to learn this right if all of us keep "letting" her jump up on us.

We can't tell you enough how much this means to us and all of those Cider says hello to (especially the mini-sized humans) and know that if you can help, it will make her learning so much faster and easier. Thank you thank you thank you so much in advance!!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Okay. I will do my best. I'm looking forward to hearing other training tips. Most of us could gain from your work with the dog master. Keep up the good work, Cider.

live from the corner said...

Many of us have this problem--! We'll definitely do our best with Cider. And please, do the same when Roz comes to greet you.