Your little head will come off in my hands

[lizblackdog]

You know, I've worked out what my trouble with Squish is. It's not that he's dumb - far from it. It's not that he's rebellious. It's not that he's batshit insane (he is, but that's not actually a problem). It's not even that he's easily distracted. It's just that his brain, when outdoors, reverts to its default mode of "will only accept input through nose".

The only training aid I really need with that dog is the ability to emit particular odours at will. If I could just master the art of smelling like a squirrel I'd never need to use his long line again.

(he's spent the morning leaping round the flat like a loony trying to catch a fly that came in. I've spent the morning trying to photograph it. I have five or six nice pictures of his tail and one of a blurred white thing that might be a dog.)

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[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

...why haven't I tried that?

Oh yes. Because asking the dogs questions makes Spike go batshit. *sigh*

Spike doesn't understand the concept of "rhetorical". If I ask what something is or where it is he either goes and gets it for me, points it out, or goes nuts at me because he didn't understand the question.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

lol :) well, same here, that's why it works.