Today we watched one of our
favorite TV shows at ten A.M. on CBS it is on every Saturday, Lucky Dog, check your
local listings.
The basis of the whole show
is when a professional dog trainer, Brandon, adopts/rescues dogs from shelters
and trains them to be suitable for families, military vets, elderly, and
business people etc. with all specific needs for the dogs being trained or with dogs having behavioral or other types of issues.
One show had a vet home from
war with two amputated legs and prosthesis needing a service dog and he helped
him with an appropriately trained dog, another wanted to take the dog to work
and he trained that dog to behave in an office setting, another had a family with
a pool and he made sure the dog knew how to swim and get out of the pool (author's note: Gus did swim when he fell in to our pool, but it was the getting out that was an issue), and I suppose now you have
gotten the idea… It is a southern California
based reality show and sincerely informative for dealing with pet problems and
normal positive training and a feel good ending every time.
Teaching the seven commands
for any pet is a must and they are: sit, down, stay, come, no, off, and heel.
The show has been on for nearly two years now. Below is the original press
release from when the show began.
This is Brandon teaching the seven commands on video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qa8er_lucky-dog-seven-common-commands_tv
He also addresses problematic
issues and has on his doggie ranch doggie cams to watch inside or outside to
see everything from separation anxiety to territory marking to destroying
things even going through the garbage in an office or kitchen all problems are
dealt with consistently. For a half hour show it is quite a learning
experience.
Today he used one that we had
seen before with cats climbing on kitchen counters, but this one was for a dog tearing up the
waste basket and it worked, pennies in a water bottle, yep plastic and it did work, it’s the
pennies hitting each other that make the noise so no tin can is needed.
We had an empty peanut butter
jar in plastic in the recycling bin and so I used it for the barking issue, and
even the running back and forth behind the couch every-time he sees a cat or
the dogs across the street etc. or when barking while we eat and you know what it
worked! Just twenty cents worth of pennies to make enough noise and the command
no and he stopped! Amazing! Treats after are given, his own dog food just a piece or two of his
kibbles, followed with positive comments go along with proper behavior, such as
good job, good boy, terrific! He really looks so proud after as if he does understand.
As far as the other commands
go we are still working on them, stay is getting there for when Hubby goes out
the front door or people come in it, sit and down are doing nicely, heel too, off
is not bad but no…still working on it!
Even we old dogs/people,
Hubby and me, can learn to try some newer tricks to help Gus become the dog we
know he has in him.
On that note of let’s hope
allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and
ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages
with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!
A perfect sit and look at Mommy! Just now!
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