There is a little dog, who shares his home with a variety of animals and birds and who has great dexterity with his paws such that he can apparently keyboard. In fact, he follows this blog regularly and occasionally dialogues with our Ray! Continue reading
Dog Writings General!
The Inner Dog?
When Ray rings the bell on the back door, or when he just stands staring at the back door, I of course open it for him. Usually, he immediately goes out, down the steps, and into the garden where he takes care of his bodily needs. Sometimes he may follow some recent squirrel scents, or he simply does a garden perimeter check. It is probably fair to say that, on many occasions, he does all those things! Continue reading
Football Fetch!
In contrast to a Post* a relatively short time ago in which I related Ray’s apparent reluctance to have much to do with snow, we have just seen a totally different side of him. Continue reading
Snow Treasure locator!
Ray is awesome!
With “used and inconsequential dogs” in the past, let’s get back to more heart warming (snow warming?) and less frustrating Posts! Continue reading
Inconsequential Dogs!
I have been contemplating writing a Post covering some aspects of responsible dog ownership. The ideas are numerous and the trigger was that “used dog” comment noted in an earlier Post*. My daughter, who lives on the other side (West coast) of this vast country, read the “Used Dog” post* and sent me a link to a recent article about dog abuse in her part of the world. Continue reading
Gotta Luv Lululemon!
Those of you who have been following the exploits of Ray and I will already know that one of his favorite places to visit downtown is the Lululemon store*. He has been there many times now and appears to be quite comfortable going in and waiting near their biscuit bowl for his treats. Continue reading
A Snow Day!
We recently had our first significant snowfall of the winter. We totaled around 12”/30cm which, because of strong gusting winds, created some “interesting” snow drifts! Continue reading
Adapting a Toyota for Ray!
I could write a small book covering our exploits with finding a suitable traveling spot in the SUV for Ray. In a nutshell however, my SUV is an early Toyota RAV4 and the obvious place (at least to us) was to put him in the very back. He made it extremely clear that the idea was not going to work so his place then became the rear passenger seat. Continue reading
Remembering Clicker Training!
Clicker training is a way of teaching a dog to respond as desired, with the “click” being a very precise and “clean” sound which can be created very quickly to mark success to a vocal and/or body language instruction. The dog soon recognizes that a “click” means a reward is imminent, just as it recognizes that no “click” means something went wrong. Continue reading
Treats vs Loyalty?
When the three of us are out walking, Ray will often try and impact whatever route decisions need to be made and, in many cases, we let him. The walk is, after all, designed around his needs and if it wasn’t for Ray, would we be out walking this regularly? We do, however, sometimes have an agenda of our own which we fit in with Ray’s walk as best we can. Continue reading
A New Direction Perhaps? 