Tuesday, June 12, 2012
I realized this morning that Wolfey is almost trained to a fault. When he was still a puppy, I took him to my grandparents' house with me for a family gathering. My cousin, who was just a toddler at the time, was walking around with a cookie and Wolfey took it right out of her hand. I decided then and there that Wolfey needed a command that let him know it was okay to take food, so that if he didn't hear that command, he would leave the food, no matter how tempting. It took a while of working with him, but he now knows that he can't take food from someone, eat a treat or even lick a plate without me saying "okay." It seems that he thinks his homemade food is a treat, because he has taken it upon himself to apply this rule to his dinner, now, too. I'm good with that, so I play along. This morning, though, I got distracted and forgot to say okay. I was doing other things around the kitchen and noticed that Wolfey was standing there, staring at his food and panting (probably drooling all over his breakfast!). It took me a second to figure it out, but finally I said, "okay" and Wolfey just about inhaled his food. Poor guy probably thought this was some new form of torture!
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