Walki sporą dozę dowcip słowny idzie polsce wchodzi szukać diega for a jog since! He has gotten out, of course, but no running for this guy. We've gone to the natural playground we discovered a handful of times, and we recently tried a trip down to this pretty little duck pond: Or, at least, I imagine it be very pretty once actually springs! The other thing I wanted to share with you guys is that and I would to invite you to our second-ever Facebook Live! We had much fun when we hosted our first-ever Facebook Live back February, and several of you way-too-kind friends asked us to do another. I had initially thought that we could do it monthly or something like that, but then March just disappeared… here we are! Click the image below to head over to the FB event We're going to chit-chat, of course, and we to answer questions live! Or, feel free to leave your question or comment the comments below here we're sure to address them. If you can't make it live, that way you'll know we get to it you can watch on the replay! When you head on over to the event, you can click going or interested, and then Facebook send you a reminder right before we start because… if you're anything like me… it's hard to remember this stuff, especially when 8 pm rolls around! I is springing where you are, and we to you Friday night! 03•18 is a good dog. is a dog. He knows all sorts of things, from the basic obedience cues like sit and stay and down to more complex cues like shutting cabinet doors and performing tricks. Based on what he knows at this point, anything I teach him is just for fun. Games. Tricks. Nothing too useful but definitely entertaining. Which means, of course, that I've become complacent his obedience work. Can I consider him done, like a cake? Finished, like there's no more training to do? As far as obedience, anyway, there's nothing much to do here. Wipe hands. Move on. Maybe… But it wouldn't do either one of us any good I recently encountered this statement a Facebook group that went something like: Well, dog's trained, we 't really work on XYZ. No point. When I work with I think of his training two buckets: obedience, the stuff mentioned above that he's mastered, and behavior, the stuff that's harder to quantify like being scared of new objects or barking out the living room window because the wind blew the leaves the tree funny. The obedience stuff is important, especially the early days of a new pup. It's the house training, the basic manners, the useful parts of being a member of a family. There comes a time, though, when a dog has learned pretty much everything they need to… Anything like tricks or dog games or even sports like agility, well, that's just icing on this cake. Or is it? The behavior stuff, on the other hand, has to be ongoing if you a dog who's anything but a happy goober. You know the kind of dog I'm talking about… No dog I've ever cared for has been a happy goober. This is the forever training, the ongoing stuff. The reinforcement and the conditioning. This is the training where one day you discover that your quirky pup is afraid of the new bird feeder you your backyard, you work on that. This is the training where you try to catch your dog every single time he, say, sees a person on a motorcycle while riding the car by tossing treats from the bag you keep