Dog training
Tonight we try again at training the dog.
We’ve had her a while now.
She’s actually pretty cool most of the time, and is certainly easy to live with.
But I get jealous as hell every time I meet a friend who has a german pointer who is so well trained I just stand and look on in awe.
Fact is it makes a lot of difference how the person is just as much as how the dog is, and with that in mind I expect to be trained at least as much as the dog will be. It’s about me and Mrs G being consistent. Firm but not angry. Confident. All those attributes I don’t have on a regular basis. We’ll see.
Thinking back, the thing that made her harder to train in the first place is that she just isn’t that interested in food, and so will just not even think about jumping through hoops to get a bit of meat. Not even raw meat let alone a dried piece of something smelly from the pet shop.
I’ll report back tomorrow.