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He had his second lesson in “don’t” with my tender toes this morning—I took hold of his muzzle and said “don’t bite” as I shook it.... I think he got the message although we will see if he remembers it tomorrow.. New people watching on camera have got to realize I am going to tell him when I do not like something and the way I will tell him is to do something he doesn't like ---as in this case I grabbed his nose and shook it a little bit and said don't do that.. my frame of reference for for permission to do that sort of thing comes from Wanda he did something she didn't like and she quite simply bit him making him Yelp and he has not bothered her since so my philosophy is about the same I certainly didn't upset him enough to make him Yelp but I wanted him to understand the my toes were off limits... as was last night's dinner.. I have explained to you people before that when he tries to get in my dinner if I raise it out of the way then he's just training me to lift my dinner out of the way I prefer to eat my dinner on the table and have him stay away from my dinner which he's going to have to learn to do besides when you're raising a great big dog like a Great Dane you'd have to put your dinner on top of the ice box and even then it probably wouldn't be safe.
Speaking of large dogs we.. Janine and I.. took him to the vets 4 his puppy shot seeing as the only shots we had were outdated two years ago.. this was a new/BUT OLDER.... vet and it is the one closest to the house... I tried 20 years or so ago to go in and see if I could establish myself as a kennel owner who was going to have to have some veterinary care and whoever was working the desk at that point said they did not take great Danes OK so I tried the next vet down the road which is on topsfield Rd. At the top of Winthrop St. And she too said that she did not take Dogs that were bigger than she was at 150 lbs// a poorly behaved dog certainly raises havoc with every reputation... and it could take a hundred well behaved dogs to change anybody's mind once they've been frightened.. that is why I eventually ended up staying with George Myers who's considerably further away than these two vets..
That was 20 years ago in 2003.. and now all I needed was a puppy shot for a tiny puppy in a bit of a hurry so I thought I would try the very local again.. and found totally new management
especially since this veterinarian covered the practice on a Wednesday--- he was delightful-- he was no spring chicken-- he had a few years age on him... so he had not quite been molded into the new modern medical practice... they have in their practice a piece of paper that apparently explains to new puppy owners how to house train a puppy-and as he went to hand it to me he asked if I'd ever house trained the puppy before.. the answer to that is technically no my dogs have always house trained themselves with my in out sleeping arrangement.. So I caged my answer by saying” a dog will house train itself. if you set up the right operation”. Which is when he realized he had on his hands either an absolute idiot or maybe somebody who knew what they were doing, so he made the casual remark “ohh you either have a well run establishment or a hell of a mess”. and I knew I finally had a veterinarian on my hands who lived in the real world... so I told him I had a well run establishment that was often a hell of a mess... and we got down to business. IT WAS FUN !!
Almost... who do you have as a trainer? I don’t have one..---- surely you have some help. You will need help if this is a newfy pup . ...( WHAT???NEWFIE???) which is when I said the 200-300 or so that I had handled were danes..
.” I will see you in 2 weeks for my next shot--- on a Wednesday---- with my canine good citizen.pup
SO THE LINE IN THE SAND HAS BEEN DRAWN---I have two weeks— I think it was the World War 2 song “we did it before and we can do it again” comes to mind.
let us pray.
