HE PEE’D OUTSIDE !! AND ONLY 5 FEET FROM THE DOOR—WHEN HE TURNED AROUND AND WANTED TO COME BACK IN !! ( SO HE COULD DO HIS MORNING bm IN FRONT OF TEH WASHING MACHINE)----- but I think I see progress !! I know about the take a piece of his stool and wipe it on the pee pad where you want him to “go”---- I did that --- and he dragged the pad to his fluffy bed and tore it to shreds... I donT know how that fits in the generic “ how to housebreak a puppy.” . I have never seen “ to tell your puppy which piece of material you want shreaded wipe the scent of his stool.... etc....)he has accomplished boot dragging 101 and is onto rope shedding...
Intellectually he seems a bright pup--- and I do believe he has the “NO” as in “no don’t put your teeth in my leg”.. I think he is mentally toying with “what makes her scream?” because he often will back off and sit down and look at me after a big “no “ episode.
My thanks to fugen fo r the case of canned dog food we're quickly working our way through it.. As he doesn't yet know to bite the whole spoon and drag the wet food off the spoon.. he still is in the “lick it” mode.
Transporting in the car has become a lot simpler since Judy found a pillow to protect my lap from his pointy toes. and actually yesterday at Meredith while I drove and Janine fed, noodles got in the back seat with sizzle and malarkey.
Now there is a sentence which demonstrates the intensity of this artificial intelligence deal.. a month ago it would have screwed up the whole concept but has learned words like Meredith and malarkey.. that is frightening.
Speaking of Meredith, one thing they have me do is to drive very slowly around a pasture while I'm towing a small wagon so that I can pick up big clumps. big clumps does not do the entire job and I know it would look a lot better if I had a piece of chain link to drag behind the wagon.. And that we really want to do it with pizzazz... we would take my nice harness’\... the black draft horse harness with the big collar and put it on that white mule called ” Betty White” and use her to drag it around their pasture... most of these pastures are visible from the street and although the owners of Meredith are not in the amusement business... could be Mr. Meredith might find it amusing to do and it would do a much better job than my Toyota... Unfortunately I can no longer walk behind a draft horse.. but Betty White has spent hours learning how to walk around in harness so I can't believe it would be any kind of challenge for a beginner to learn to do.. All retired draft horses I ever met know one thing better than all others and that is “whoa” because stopping and standing still is 1000% less confusing than anything else a horse can think of doing. donkeys know it really well instinctively..
So let's get out the Murphy's oil soap and dunk that harness ---Which is made now of bio theme or something---which is leather the easy way... the only thing missing will be the nice smell of leather.... but that's a small sacrifice
Cloud has done a fantastic job at organizing our visiting places so with judies actually entering the information and cloud putting it in a pretty version here's the month of March. we certainly met our goal of 100 people a week. notice that one trip to Merrimack NH which Janine called an emergency visit because it was a Hospice and apparently the woman was not doing very well... so Janine put the unit together and ran---for which the family was extremely happy..
It is also where she decided to make a list of the expenses which made that visit possible at the spur of the moment.. starting with locating the hitch for the trailer... and the people ---volunteers---here who have taught the donkey to walk so nicely on a leash... it is a very interesting list---of course including the hay..
it may be a small donkey but it still consumes a lot of hay.. and grain..... an apple treats that camera people send.
The list is very similar to the concept of how expensive can one puppy be? I took this puppy in for a parvo shot and the bill was $178.. I think the shots are available for about $4.00 online.. but they did his nails and they listened to his heart and they listened to his lungs and gave him an official healthy puppy rating
