Training or Torture..?
29 May 2011 4 Comments
in Feeding, Playing, Training, Weighing Tags: 15 weeks, fetch, Leave it, tortilla chip
Being taught self-discipline is one thing – being tortured is another.
So this is what happens:
New mum places a tasty, crunchy, savoury, smelly tortilla chip on the floor – right in front of me – and then says the two most horrible words in the world: LEAVE IT!
I get it – OK? I leave it. I don’t touch it. I don’t touch it even though I can smell it. I just sit there and look at it – just in case it was to move or disappear when I wasn’t looking.
LEAVE IT!
I wait….
I wait…. I wait more… and more….
Two hours later (probably two minutes but feels like hours) she says: FETCH IT!
And I jump on it and devour the chip.
Then we do it all over again. Sure seems like torture to me…!
Please can I have the chip now...?
15 Weeks old and I’ve more than doubled my weight in the last 2 weeks to 12.2Kg. Must be all those chips I’ve been eating….
Jun 09, 2011 @ 14:36:46
You are gaining a great skill, Carlie. Some people don’t have the patience you’ve got!
Jun 09, 2011 @ 16:27:13
Thank you. So maybe I am overdoing the patience then…? Hmmn… I will have to rethink that.
Jun 10, 2011 @ 09:01:19
I have a tip for you, kid. Instead of looking at the chip, look away. That way, if you have the attention span of a goldfish like I have, you can almost forget it’s there until you are given permission to eat it. Humans think up these ridiculous forms of torture all the time! I think it makes them feel that they are in charge…
Paddy
Jun 10, 2011 @ 09:23:33
Hey, Paddy! Thanks for the tip. I’ve seen new mum reading stuff on the internet about Top Dog, which I think she wants to be. But she doesn’t look anything like a dog, so that’s really strange… Humans are just weird!