Many of you are probably familiar with Aesop's fable of the boy who cried wolf. In the story, the boy cries wolf to attract the attention of the villagers even though there is no wolf. When a wolf really does show up, no one believes the boy because he has cried wolf too many times. [...]
Romeo is now 14 months old (August 2010). He is still most definitely an adolescent and will be for some time yet. But he has definitely matured over the last few months. He does not get in nearly as much trouble as he did six months ago. We still have a long way to go, [...]
On our morning walk a few days ago (August 2010), Romeo stepped on a branch that was partially buried under some leaves. When he stepped on it, it moved, and he leapt into the air. He was very cautious about moving forward until I reached down and picked up the branch to show him it [...]
Last Friday (August 2010), I took Romeo to another new park. Actually, he had been there once before, but he was only 3 or 4 months old at the time, so I’m sure as far as he knew, it was new to him. I brought a few kinds of treats along, and since it was [...]
I recently started a new class with Romeo (August 2010). We meet at a variety of parks and focus on improving our dogs’ leash manners. Even though I am a professional trainer and work with Romeo a lot on my own, a class is a great place to work on our issues. We are working [...]
