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this is literally us rn @hazelhound @as-old-roads @spitzonthefritz @appenzellerlouis

please enjoy this short clip of me losing a dog that’s right next to me

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please enjoy this short clip of me losing a dog that’s right next to me

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this sweet, sweet animal is trying to kill me.

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Always interesting when adoptdontshop people follow me. Did you… did you think I got this beast from a shelter?

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It’s so funny to me how slow Kaija gets after her heats. We’ll be on a walk in the forest and she’ll just amble along 2m behind me. Today she didn’t even want to do that, so a good portion of our walk was spent going at her walking pace (very slow).

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dilemma solved, visual established

ability to stare at the me has been severely impacted

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ability to stare at the me has been severely impacted

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I feel like we’re starting to hit a groove with the exercises from “Attention Please”. Granted, it is the most basic of the basics. I’m still only asking for about 1min or so of uninterrupted focus in an easy environment, with very few, if any, cued behaviours.

But Kaija is very clearly understanding when “work” is about to be available and offers her start button behaviour asap. And I’ve learned the patterns well enough that I no longer need to be thinking about what I’m doing all the time, so I can pay more attention to what Kaija is doing instead. So, slow going but it’s going.

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whats the most ridiculous cue word you have heard for a pretty standard behavior? i'll go first, someone telling the dog to heel by saying "place" as the cue

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This has been my favourite /r/relationships update in a while.

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Alright so a quick update from our vet visit yesterday.

No more vet wrap since it apparently doesn’t breathe well enough. Instead Kaija is to wear a cotton sock only. Nice in theory, but this morning I woke up to her chewing her paw bloody through the sock…

She did get put on Apoquel to hopefully help her feel more comfortable and discourage the chewing. If that won’t help then it will have to be the cone 24/7.

The overall assessment was that this doesn’t really make sense. The original wound - however it came to be - should have healed a long time ago and been fine. It doesn’t make sense why she so obsessively wants to keep chewing her paw open over and over again.

We have our next check up in two weeks, so we’ll see how things are looking then… I’m really hoping the Apoquel will help.

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peak dumbass <3

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I hate getting up early but hey at least it’s beautiful sometimes.

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Help my puppy is missing and I can’t find her :(

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Kaija inventing a new sleeping style for when only your toesies need a pillow.

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So I’m trying to work through “Attention Please”, which is a course from Tromplo all about loopy training and how it relates to focus, and it’s been interesting. I’m looking at a lot of things that I never have before, recording every session and then watching it back in slow motion.

During our first couple of sessions I noticed that Kaija would do this really slight and quick tongue flick every time after I marked with the clicker. I saw it, but I figured she was just anticipating the cookie. Plus, this technically fell between behaviour and consequence in our little A-B-C training loop, so I figured it wasn’t really what I was looking for anyway (I was more so looking for “junk” behaviours between A and B, and between C and A).

But then, during our session today, she was no longer flicking her tongue after I clicked. So… what do I make of this? I’m now leaning towards this being a tiny little stress behaviour, and not just pure anticipation, which has reduced with more repetitions because she better understands what we’re doing. Maybe…??

Well, either way it’s something I never would have spotted before, without actually watching back my recorded sessions, and in terms of this course that’s a kind of win already.