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Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 18, 2021, 6:17 pm
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I can't bring myself to say that. Well, I can, but I don't want
to.
Cy sounds like an absolute delight. You two are doing great.
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Re: training questions
DIR By: TwoASAPsAgo
Date: November 18, 2021, 8:28 pm
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--- Quote from: Queenie link ---
>
> I can't bring myself to say that. Well, I can, but I don't
want to.
>
> Cy sounds like an absolute delight. You two are doing great.
>
--- End Quote ---
Thanks! Your encouragement and advice have been very helpful.
Maybe it is a grass-is-greener thing? LCP just sounds adorable
from my vantage point, but I suppose I don't have to deal with
any of her down sides.
I would say Cyrus is about 40% delightful these days -- sleep
barking is The Cutest Thing Ever! -- though I believe he'll
eventually get closer to 95%. Did I mention sleep barking is
the Cutest Thing Ever?? Oh my God, it is so cute! How did I
not know about this in the BC era?
But Cy has just entered a stressful "parkour phase," where he
tries leaping from couch to ottoman and back, six feet apart --
or running and jumping onto the ottoman from the side and
abruptly pivoting on one of his hind legs to land on the
armchair. This sends the heavy ottoman loudly scraping up to
two feet across the wood floor, even though it is heavier than
he is. He's allowed on the furniture, and I have confidence in
his skills safety wise. But knock it off, damnit!
And I guess I'll have to get rid of the glass coffee table
because he is clearly thinking about adding it to the obstacle
course. I have no confidence in his judgment on this point.
😟
I don't want to ban him from the furniture, but this is clearly
going to be the next urgent thing we work on. So we'll see
which way his "percentage" is trending.
#Post#: 43566--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 19, 2021, 9:54 am
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--- Quote from: TwoASAPsAgo link ---
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> [quote author=Queenie link=topic=166.msg43360#msg43360
date=1637281052]
> I can't bring myself to say that. Well, I can, but I don't
want to.
>
> Cy sounds like an absolute delight. You two are doing great.
>
--- End Quote ---
Thanks! Your encouragement and advice have been very helpful.
Maybe it is a grass-is-greener thing? LCP just sounds adorable
from my vantage point, but I suppose I don't have to deal with
any of her down sides.
I would say Cyrus is about 40% delightful these days -- sleep
barking is The Cutest Thing Ever! -- though I believe he'll
eventually get closer to 95%. Did I mention sleep barking is
the Cutest Thing Ever?? Oh my God, it is so cute! How did I
not know about this in the BC era?
But Cy has just entered a stressful "parkour phase," where he
tries leaping from couch to ottoman and back, six feet apart --
or running and jumping onto the ottoman from the side and
abruptly pivoting on one of his hind legs to land on the
armchair. This sends the heavy ottoman loudly scraping up to
two feet across the wood floor, even though it is heavier than
he is. He's allowed on the furniture, and I have confidence in
his skills safety wise. But knock it off, damnit!
And I guess I'll have to get rid of the glass coffee table
because he is clearly thinking about adding it to the obstacle
course. I have no confidence in his judgment on this point.
😟
I don't want to ban him from the furniture, but this is clearly
going to be the next urgent thing we work on. So we'll see
which way his "percentage" is trending.
[/quote]
I suspect the main difference is that I have a ton of puppy
experience so I don't sweat it when they do something
normal-but-annoying like regress. Or parkour. Heh. I bet that
is super funny to watch even though it's alarming.
These zoomies are happening in the evening, right? Does he go
to daycare? Can they try a little harder to wear him out there?
Puppies need off-lead exercise and I know this is a challenge
to get when you live in a city.
One of the main tenets of shaping, as you know, is to try very
hard to decide what you want the puppy to *do*, as opposed to
*not* do. So if you don't want him to jump on the coffee table,
what is it that you do want?
Also, and I just made this up in my head this very second, might
it be fun to make an actual little obstacle course for him and
teach him to run it? Stuff to go over, under, through, and
onto?
#Post#: 43705--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: TwoASAPsAgo
Date: November 19, 2021, 1:27 pm
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--- Quote from: Queenie link ---
>
>
> I suspect the main difference is that I have a ton of puppy
experience so I don't sweat it when they do something
normal-but-annoying like regress. Or parkour. Heh. I bet that
is super funny to watch even though it's alarming.
>
> These zoomies are happening in the evening, right? Does he go
to daycare? Can they try a little harder to wear him out there?
Puppies need off-lead exercise and I know this is a challenge
to get when you live in a city.
>
> One of the main tenets of shaping, as you know, is to try very
hard to decide what you want the puppy to *do*, as opposed to
*not* do. So if you don't want him to jump on the coffee table,
what is it that you do want?
>
> Also, and I just made this up in my head this very second,
might it be fun to make an actual little obstacle course for him
and teach him to run it? Stuff to go over, under, through, and
onto?
>
--- End Quote ---
The parkour is hilarious, but it's loud, which makes us bad
upstairs neighbors, and messes up the wood floors. I don't want
to buy rugs for the living room if I'm going to be moving in a
couple of months, but that would solve half the issues with it.
Cy goes to daycare/training three days a week and comes home
exhausted each time. His trainer always includes a visit to the
dogpark, so he gets a chance to run offleash.
On the other days, I walk him four to five times a day, but
mostly can't trust him offleash anywhere in my neighborhood. I
sometimes sneak running time in our lobby during off-hours, or
he runs in the hallways of the apartment. I'd like to get him
some regular running time at the nearby dogpark, but the weather
is becoming a complication and I'm still a bit traumatized by
the incident. When the rest of his clothes finally arrive, and
hopefully fit, we'll see.
His occasional zoomies (maybe once a week?) are manageable and
hilarious (totally OCD, as in he duplicates whatever pattern he
starts, at least three times). An obstacle course would be fun,
but challenging in my NYC apartment. I do plan to put him into
agility training at some point, but that probably won't be
before Spring.
With the parkour, I think it is partly due to a recent growth
spurt. He isn't necessarily running around, but just eyeballing
the place six feet away, where he would suddenly rather sit and
thinking "sure, I can make it!" Then he goes for it. Then he
decides the original spot was better, so leaps back. The
pivot-to-armchair thing is because that's his spot to stare out
the window.
As for the coffee table, I want him doing anything but try to
stand or jump on it. I've left a pile of laundry on it for
weeks, just to keep him off it. But that annoys me. Maybe I
will start shaping on putting away toys instead.
#Post#: 43710--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 19, 2021, 1:31 pm
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Cy sounds wonderful.
So "anything except X" is a blessing and a curse because you
need to pick something. Luckily you can pick nearly anything.
Wildly making things up I think I might teach him to army crawl
*under* the coffee table and make that a super fun thing to do
and get treats and praise for.
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Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 19, 2021, 1:44 pm
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Oh, and I forgot to mention something your trainer and doggy
daycare people probably tell you all the time: puppy antics are
a temporary problem. I know that that doesn't make them any
less annoying in the moment, but sometimes it helps to remember
that he is definitely going to outgrow a ton of this stuff.
#Post#: 43724--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: TwoASAPsAgo
Date: November 19, 2021, 1:50 pm
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Yes, in just a month, he has already outgrown some of his worst
behaviors.
Just last week, he started bumping me with his nose when he
wants attention. Bump, bump. 😆😆 Before he would
have either tried jumping on me (which I ignore) or gnawing at
my clothes.
#Post#: 46142--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 29, 2021, 9:16 am
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LCP doesn't jump but she definitely invites herself onto the
sofa and then suddenly you have a now-70lb lapful of chocolate
colored attention hog.
We bought a Kong wobbler for her and for reasons I cannot fathom
it has disappeared into the fifth dimension. So yesterday I
purchased another one and also this, the Kong "rewards wally."
HTML https://www.kongcompany.com/dog/play-type/interactive/rewards-wally
Reader, she ate it. Do not buy this product. She used it as
advertised, then when all of the food was gone (or maybe there
was still some inside?) she somehow managed to get it open and
chewed the hell out of the edges so that it is now useless and I
had to throw it away.
The wobbler, however, I highly recommend. I bought it because
it's indestructible and also it can't roll under the sofa. I
have no ideas on how to keep it from entering the fifth
dimension, alas. Fingers crossed the new one stays in my family
room.
#Post#: 46519--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: TwoASAPsAgo
Date: November 29, 2021, 7:57 pm
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--- Quote from: Queenie link ---
>
> LCP doesn't jump but she definitely invites herself onto the
sofa and then suddenly you have a now-70lb lapful of chocolate
colored attention hog.
>
> We bought a Kong wobbler for her and for reasons I cannot
fathom it has disappeared into the fifth dimension. So
yesterday I purchased another one and also this, the Kong
"rewards wally."
>
HTML https://www.kongcompany.com/dog/play-type/interactive/rewards-wally
>
> Reader, she ate it. Do not buy this product. She used it as
advertised, then when all of the food was gone (or maybe there
was still some inside?) she somehow managed to get it open and
chewed the hell out of the edges so that it is now useless and I
had to throw it away.
>
> The wobbler, however, I highly recommend. I bought it because
it's indestructible and also it can't roll under the sofa. I
have no ideas on how to keep it from entering the fifth
dimension, alas. Fingers crossed the new one stays in my family
room.
>
--- End Quote ---
Yikes! What do you do when you know she ate plastic?? Does it
pass through? (I might have a self-interested reason for
asking.)
I have something similar to the Kong wobbler. I like it because
it's not too noisy on the kitchen tiles and I can adjust the
size of the openings.
HTML https://www.amazon.com/StarMark-Bob-Lot-Interactive-Small/dp/B003YHB8EI/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?crid=3NLUCKENGQ8X6&keywords=dog+wobbler+feeder&qid=1638237072&qsid=133-2369828-9303653&sprefix=dog+wobbler%2Caps%2C94&sr=8-11&sres=B003ALMW0M%2CB0966LSNPM%2CB073TP1H8Y%2CB071CDDK4Z%2CB077P9HP4F%2CB09D7JJZR3%2CB014AE9J7G%2CB003YHB8EI%2CB0714JXCB9%2CB08FY3396J%2CB00P0MK4UO%2CB0755BGL8N%2CB07BXGPDN8%2CB07J9QQSS4&srpt=PET_TOY
#Post#: 46523--------------------------------------------------
Re: training questions
DIR By: Queenie
Date: November 29, 2021, 8:03 pm
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She only ate some tiny bits, if any. What she really did is
break it into bits and spit them out. Made a right mess.
I have thankfully never had to figure out what to do when my dog
ate something dangerous.
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