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Basket weaving
At some point earlier this year, I mentioned our summer project: teaching Chico to carry a small marketing basket around the Farmers Market. I started by getting him to hold the basket in his mouth, and clicking and treating that. … Continue reading
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Tagged agility class, farmers market, monday nights, weave poles
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Chico earns his Hikin’ Heron patch
The Conservation Commission in my town, Tamworth, NH, maintains a number of short trails on various pieces of property that are under their auspices. Last year the commissioners instituted the Hikin’ Heron program. If you hike all the trails in … Continue reading
Watermelon and more summer delights
I inherited half a watermelon this weekend. It turns out that Chico loves watermelon. The red part, the white part, the green part; but the red part is best. This summer, Chico can hang out in the front yard while … Continue reading
Chico at the “compost farm”
Whatever his breeding might be, Chico surely has some flavor of collie in his background, making him a working dog. His nature is to be by my side, helping me with whatever I have to do. One of the things … Continue reading
Chico’s on vacation
I’m in Washington, DC, where it’s way too hot for humans, let alone dogs; and Chico is staying in New Hampshire, with Julie. I hear it’s hot back home as well. I believe that among other things Chico and Julie’s … Continue reading
Take the dog to work?
On July 4th, there was an interesting piece on NPR about dogs in the workplace. The story was prompted, it seems, by some new research: “Lowering stress is just one of the positive benefits of dogs in the workplace, according … Continue reading
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Fourth of July
My town pulls out all the stops on July 4th – parade, games and food and pie eating contests, fireworks, barbeques – you name it, we got it. President Grover Cleveland was a summer resident, around the turn of the … Continue reading
Implementing the action plan
I got distracted, this post’s about what we did to implement the action plan I wrote about here. Implementing the action plan involved some interesting techniques. To keep Chico out of the road, I bought two sets of the reflector-on-a-stick … Continue reading
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Tagged clicker training, desirable behavior, dog, dog behaviors, Julie Daniels, positive reinforcement
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Dear Readers
I started this blog about nine months ago, mostly because I couldn’t stop talking about my dog. It seemed that if my friends and family were actually interested in my stories about Chico, not just being polite and listening to … Continue reading
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Dogs have to learn English before they can understand us
The Whole Dog Journal was recommended to me by a local kennel owner, so I subscribed to their email newsletter. In early June, they ran this great article talking about talking to dogs. “Try to remember that you have to … Continue reading
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Tagged behavioral psychology, clicker training, desirable behavior, Dogs
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Can I Bring the Dog? 