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03-18-2005, 09:51 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida
Posts: 852
| There really IS a Training Fairy!!!! As most of you already know, we gave up training Higgins to do anything at all pretty early on -- just too hard to get the Energizer Bunny's attention. However, now that he is 15 months old, we have discovered that all this time there has been a Training Fairy coming in at night to teach him things...... He is a Gold Medal class Frisbee dog (soft little disc) and we never taught him to do it. And when he catches it -- and ONLY when he catches it -- he does a victory lap at full speed around two campsites. We never taught him that either. The other day, a friend dropped by and was throwing Higgin's Frisbee for him, but before he threw it, he told Higgins to "Sit!" And Higgins SAT. And he would repeat the sit anytime the man asked him to sit. Then I told him to sit. And he STOOD there looking at me like I was stupid. When another stranger asked him to sit later that day, his butt hit the ground in a second. But not for Don or for me!!! Until we had a little talk with him last night. A really nice little talk. No angry words. We just asked him WHY he wouldn't sit for us. So he SAT. And he will now sit any time we ask him to!!!! And we never taught him anything about sitting on command. The Training Fairy also spoke to him about his crate, too, and he loves it. Puts himself right to bed, and always has....... So now we are saying "Please" a lot and that is helping...... But I wish the Training Fairy would say something more about pooping in the house. Higgins is pretty good lately.....about 99.4% of the time......but she needs to talk to him just a wee bit more.....because he really doesn't listen to his parents all that well........ |
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03-18-2005, 12:13 PM | #2 |
The Royal Mommy Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: California
Posts: 2,010
| YAY for Higgins! Put in a memo to the Training Fairy that Tia needs work in the potty area as well. Those darn Fairy budget cuts are ruining everything.
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03-18-2005, 12:38 PM | #3 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: House Of York
Posts: 1,079
| Please send him my way. I always want to teach my dog FRISBEE!!! On second thought, send him my way so he can teach my to throw a frisbee. My dog can fetch. I can't throw. |
03-18-2005, 03:06 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Florida
Posts: 852
| These are the "Frisbees" Higgins likes: http://www.epetpals.com/dog_frisbees.htm If I threw a regular Frisbee and it hit him or if he caught it, I think it would sure injure him and might even kill him. These are soft and small and just perfect for Yorkies. He has always loved to "fetch" and just taught himself to catch it......er.....the Training Fairy taught him...... |
03-18-2005, 05:47 PM | #5 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 6,238
| Aww, little Higgins is growing up so fast!!! Funny he learned to sit from a stranger. I love to see those victory laps, it's so funny to see a Yorkie running at full sprint when they are happy (or sometimes before they need to poop). Higgins will learn to poopy in the right place soon I bet, sometimes it just takes them a bit of time, maybe he needs another sit-down pow-wow with Mom and Dad in a week or two. Cute story, Higgin's Mom. |
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