Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Teaching Buca and Peanut to Speak




I found these flash cards in Barnes and Noble last weekend. I thought it would be pretty funny if we tried to teach Buca and Peanut some more commands. We would take them to obedience class, but let's face it they would flunk out. Peanut has the attention span of a peanut and Buca likes to pretend that he doesn't know what is going on and then two minutes later he is doing something sneaky. It just wouldn't be pretty.
They are doing very well so far. They have sit, potty, and bed down to a science, it's the other 47 commands that are going to be tough. This week we are working on "stay." They have the hang of it while waiting for treats, sometime this week we are going to give it a whirl while we are out walking.
We are also working on "lay down". Last night I told Buca to lay down and first he sat. When he didn't get a treat he then put his paw up in the air for a shake. He finally did lay down, I am assuming because that was the only other position he knows how to do. I had to lay on Peanut to get him to lay down. This is going to be so entertaining!

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