Way-out Willie gave them all a treat, when he did that hand jive with his feet

[lizblackdog]

...just spent half an hour attempting to teach Spike to type. At the moment he's got as far as bashing the keyboard really hard with his front paws so I am using the old keyboard.

strangely enough Squish is actually a bit better at it, perhaps because when i hide the bit of corned beef under the keyboard he just nose-types, whereas Spike tries to flip the keyboard over.

*switches to own keyboard*


five minutes later: AH! Spike just made the intuitive leap!

Spike sez: g


^ ok, he isn't bashing the keyboard hard enough to make letters. But he is touching the keyboard with his nose on command now - in between the usual Spike-on-a-learning-curve activities like barking furiously at me, picking fights with Squish and dancing round the room with his food bowl in his teeth.

I love my dog.

Comments

[purplewaxhand.livejournal.com]

why are you teaching them to type? :D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

because my friend silverblaidd was getting his dog to type on the IM the other day, and I need to prove that Spike isn't any less smart than she is :D

...and also because I'm silly.

[gwenhyffar.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaha, I'm looking forward to their first realy entries!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Spike learning tricks reminds me of myself as a kid trying to do homework - he gets all silly and starts doing anything except thinking, and then he capers round like as maniac acting-out and showing off. He's broken his bloody food bowl again being a dick, but it always cracks me up seeing him dance around with it and throw it in the air and pounce on it.

but - I think he's got it! At the moment I'm rewarding him for touching his nose to the keyboard - now I just have to get him poking a bit harder and actually hitting keys.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine what Spike's journal entries would look like...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Probably something like fckl;'; ghop'# hjio[]m,nbytopl.

but it's the principle of the thing!

[my3babies.livejournal.com]

you always have so much fun with your mutts they are lucky little dogs. Typing can be a neat trick it also may help you out when your fingers are bruised from to much chat *evil grin*

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

well, it looks like they might get a chance to recover - Blaidd & Saigh are away, Cotton's not about - are you on?

...so far I can only get Spike to type obscure dog haiku. It;s a start though!

[myrystyr.livejournal.com]

Now, if we can get every dog in the world online, maybe they can come up with something to compete with the script for Hamlet from that infinite number of monkeys...

[silverblaidd.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! Keep me updating on how that's going.


P.S. EVERYTHING is my fault.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

He typed several smileys in the chat!!!

Damn I love herding dogs :D