What one skill do you wish you could teach your dog

Skye: Click on the thumbnail to see our current adoption dog of the week.

If money, time, patience and reality were not issues,
cards against humanity card list?, and you could travel with your dog to a super secret elite training facility for a two week, intensive program guaranteed to achieve one specific result . what would you choose to learn?

For 12 year old Jack: Jack would attend de yapping schooling. When he returned, he would never bark more than once, and a raised eyebrow from me at 50 yards away or less would stop him altogether.

For 3 year old Eddie: He would go to an elite agility school, where he would conquer his fear of the banging teeter while developing a constant high level of enthusiasm for the tasks. As most of you know, I have two Springer Spaniels. Springers are known to do a lot of the counter surfing, but oddly enough, my two have never done it. However, I belong to a Springer rescue group, and I’d like to share with you part of a response written to a man who decided rescued Springers most probably had a lot of “issues” that he termed “testy behavior.” This response was written by one of our members and is extremely well written, but way too long to include all of it here,
cards against humanity best expansion, so I’m just going to copy a part of it dealing with the counter surfing:

(names have been changed.) Sandra writes “An older, calmer dog with kid experience might be the perfect answer for your family. But if counter surfing or chasing cats is what you would call “testy behavior,” please consider whether YOU are right for a springer.

When looking to see if a breed is right for your lifestyle, look at the function the dog was bred to excel in. A springer is a dog who was bred to serve his owner in a day of hunting game in the field by scenting the bird, running toward it, “flushing” it into the sky so the hunter can shoot it, and retrieving it allowing no terrain obstacle to defeat this mission. Both field and bench bred dogs retain these instincts.

Now translate this into the average “pet” situation. A springer wants to be outdoors when his people are outdoors and inside when his people are inside. He is used to companionship of humans in and off the field. He was not bred to solitarily guard the temple entrance or watch flock on a lonely hillside. He needs people and is usually quite content as long as he can follow you everywhere including the bathroom.

He needs activity to excercise all those running and jumping skills and his enthusiasm for life can lead to his “flushing” humans an exuberant springer running toward a 2 year old can easily frighten a child.

His sense of smell is incredible. To him, it is just a technological advance that the bird he has been bred to find in the field has come inside, gotten itself cooked, and is hiding in plain sight on the kitchen counter. That sense of smell can also lead to opening trash cans, refrigerators, purses, ect. to find food. Springers are very intelligent and will not be put off by “difficult terrain.” ”

Sandra goes on about some other springer traits that a person should be aware of if they are considering adopting one. I really liked her answer to the man who just wasn’t aware of springer behavior, and how she explained it all so well. It’s one of those things I printed out so I could read it again.

I don’t know why our springers have never even attempted to jump on the counters or surf along them. I am careful, though, about never leaving anything tempting up there. I used to have a cat that annoyed me to no end because it would jump up on the counter where I prepare food. It was always when I wasn’t looking or when we were in bed. I tried rolling strips of duct tape inside out and placing them on the counter kind of like fly paper or those sticky mouse trap things. It worked for awhile until she learned to just skip around them. But we always knew when she had been “trapped” because we’d find the tape strips on the floor.

when I was younger, we never never had a problem with him counter surfing. We could actually leave food on the coffee tables etc and he would not touch it,
cards against humanity online version, no matter what, stare at it, yes,
cards against humanity black cards, but never touched it. He never messed with the trash either which was directly next to his food dish. I wonder what we did differently that prevented this bothersome behavior.

now Kane on the other hand. stole a hot dog out of a bowl on the countertop as a pup and will stick his whole head in the trash if I leave the lid open. go figure!

There might just be some tiny genetic code that the two of them share. :>

The other day all 25lbs of him stood in the kitchen, looked at me and hopped (in one hop) onto the kitchen counter. OMG there was no putting the feet up to see what was on the counter it was all one impulse jump.

Needless to say baby Ryder is not left loose in the house unattended at this stage in his development. At this point it may be QUITE some time before that happens. He is the most impulsive dog I’ve had in a long, long time.

they must share some genetic “goofyness” code or something because that sounds like something Kane would do, even at this point. Just like him jumping on the wall to see the white board last night! I’ve caught him IN the dryer before just sitting there with his big ol head sticking out. He also decided to knock the bbq grill over the other night because he was trying to climb under it to get onto the porch without stepping in the mud. I have to admit, he keeps me busy and is sorta fun with all the challenges he presents.

One day when my Molly was a pup, I walked down the hall and something out of the corner of my eye struck me funny so I backed up.

Molly was standing on the kitchen table looking at the cats’ food bowl which was on top of the fridge (they had a way to get up there and the food was safe from Molly). Weird.

She was the statue I never purchased for the table for a wrinkle in time.

Dogs can do some funny things. Makes one wonder what the mind process is they go through to get to the point they end up at in such situations. Why?

There is a Samoyed who lives in Florida (well, there are many, actually). He is a cousin to my boys. One day, Reef’s owner caught him counter surfing. She told him to take his paws off the counter and to never put them back.

cards againsthumanity yb eyk hf