Tomorrow will be dedicated to All Things William as he heads off to middle school! We are taking him out for ice cream at Jeni's to celebrate his last day of summer this evening.
Since I will be showing off Wm tomorrow, I will show off Flip today! He has been working hard on his training!! I took a video of him doing "place." Our chair is his place. When we point to it and say "place," he is to go there, sit down, and stay there until the release words ("all done") are said. The idea is that if the doorbell rings, we can get him in place and deal with whatever is happening without a barking excited maniac running around trying to lick on and jump all over visitors. Here are Wm and Steve acting out a pizza delivery to test Flip's "place" (Wm as pizza delivery man):
Nailed it!! When an actual visitor comes in, he is still pretty excited to say hello. We are working on doing a similar thing (sit and stay) when a dog passes on a walk. We still have a long way to go on that one! Flip looooooves visiting other dogs and sniffing all the butts! But, Flip has proven to be easy to train and a real smarty pants!! He will do anything for food, basically.
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