Manners MONSTER!

Ooooo it's the manners minder MONSTER!!! RUN! Dhali was so funny the first time I introduced him to the manners minder. He was like, "What the #&@*! is THAT!! It beeps and is weird! I don't like it!" Tibby was like, "Shut up. It's putting out kibble, but if you wait long enough chicken will come out of it too." Dhali love the MM now - he asks to play with it all the time, but it sure was funny to see him the first day LOL! Just for comparison below is a video from last year (Oct. 2011) when I bought the MM. Tibby is totally fine with the MM. Isn't it funny how my dogs are complete opposites, but they are the same breed? And remember Tibby is the dog with very low food drive and Dhali is the chowhound.

Living The Summer

"You hang up first....no you....no you hang up f..i..r..s...zzzzzzz"

It's a pretty good life for the puppers (and me too!). 

A day in the life of Tibby and Ellie: 

get up early around 6am to potty and a quick game of fetch (Ellie)

Go back to bed for snuggles and get up for real around 9 (or 10.... :)

Play with the flirt pole/whip toy (see below) until Ellie's tongue is hanging all the way out

Tibby and Ellie play chase games and wrestle until Tibby's tongue is hanging all the way out

Go inside to rest up for 1/2 hour

Go outside for more playing

Inside to rest up

Outside for playing

Inside to rest up

Outside playing

Eating time

More playing outside

Play in sprinkler to cool down

Inside to rest up

Outside to play

Inside to rest

Outside to play - getting dark now....more fetching games and less chasing games.

Inside to escape mosquitoes

Last time outside to potty and play a quick game/pick up 5,000 toys from the yard and put sprinkler away

Sleeping time - very quiet in the house....just little snores from 2 tired doggies

And then just a quick little video showing Ellie's nice crate manners.  She's really, really improved a lot!  She's a smart puppy and she wants to be good/do the right thing SO bad.  She is really improving on her self control.  In the whip video you can see how she is able to wait and hold a sit (most of the time!) while I re-tie the toy on to the end of the whip.  A few weeks ago she would have just kept jumping at me.  Trust me....I have the scratches to prove it!  She has the sharpest claws I have ever seen on a dog.  I keep trimming them and they are STILL sharp, but in the last few days she hasn't scratched me once.  OR bitten me.  Before she would be so excited to get the toy that she would bite me as well as the toy.  Now she sometimes still gets my skin/fingers/arm, but she doesn't bite down as hard.  And she's stopped bite kissing me.  She use to run at me full speed, jump up, nip and lick me.  Ow.

She did that to my nose one time.  I thought that I might have a pierced nose.  :P

Manners Monster!

The Manners Minder arrived yesterday. Tibby thinks it is great. Just like the food ball, but bigger. Catty isn't so sure.....