Lane will come home one day to find the side gate open and come inside to see me with an innocent and bewildered look on my face.
Upon moving, Cosmo developed a very Napolean-esque belief that he can eradicate Texas of all its squirrels. Apparently this is to be done with the simple formula of combining nuisance barking with jumping almost as high as the fence.
But, you see, Jane's transitioning (herself, not my grand design) from two naps to one. That one nap would be a long nap if it weren't for Cosmo's conquest.
Without fail, within 30 minutes of the Nap (it's a proper noun now, since it is the only one) he begins his eradication plan and this is the result:
She'll spend the next 40 minutes talking to herself and waffling between hugging and scolding her stuffed dog (imitation?).
In an effort to be a good owner, I went to the Dog Whisperer's Web site. He says to have a calm, assertive energy when dealing with nuisance barking.
I tried. And I failed.
Any tips?
4 comments:
great action shot of Cosmo. . .from the sounds of it, he gives you ample opportunities to capture him in 'air'. . .sorry, won't be able to be of much help. As Lane has probably shared, his parents (well, mother) wasn't too much of an animal care giver and his childhood was void of the animal experience, except for the year of KoKo. . .the collar doesn't work? What are Lane's suggestions?
Keep him in the house during naps. A tablespoon of peanut butter should help. Don't ask me how I know that. I don't have a dog. It works on my husband, though.
I have neighbors with incredibly loud barking dogs, and so I invested in a white noise machine. It keeps my 2 year old asleep for four hours, no matter what the barking dogs choose to do (bark--they always choose to bark).
I can't believe you would voluntarily stifle Cosmo's innate desires to jump really high and bark. What are you going to do when Jane wants to do something similar?? Stifle her desires too? Dash her dreams against the ground? For shame
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