We figured out early on that keeping a young doxie challenged can be a challenge, especially since we had become accustomed to a providing different sort of attention to our geriatric boys. Searching for a good challenge is how Baxter and I ended up in Canine Good Citizen class a month after we got him, with me standing at one end of the training room floor, waving an open tube of poultry flavored canine toothpaste in one hand while motioning at him with the other, while Baxter stood at the other end of the room staring at his strange new friend and wondering why the heck she was saying "come". In the end, we passed the class, and even moved on to beginning musical freestyle, just to make sure we learned enough moves to keep us busy every day so Baxter could work for his food.
It's been over a year since we've formally been in a class, but we still try to practice things he learned from both class and the thing's we've taught him on the fly. Baxter's neck pain from more than a month ago made me realize we needed more movies, more video to document the wonders that our little wiener brings into our life. I made 5 low budget short attention span videos this week, to capture some of the moves our kielbasa practices during mealtime. Here, the first two parts.
Volume 1: down, come, woof, taptoe
Volume 2: bang, roll, rooty, circle
Tomorrow, Volumes 3 and 4.
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What a smart boy. Love his little moans.
These are great...did you learn them all in class?
Wow--Baxter you are way smarter than we are! Toe Tapping! Can we come dance with you? WEll not this weekend--we already have 12" of snow! We are making mommy run around us! Ha ha. Stay warm, Kate & Allie!
Baxter is talented and obedient! What a good boy.
I'd like to teach Oskar more tricks like taptoe, circle and jump. Oskar only rolls to his right, and only on a carpet as hard flooring is too uncomfortable. He makes the same moaning noise that Baxter makes...how funny!
What a smarty pants!
Okay, just when we thought we couldn't adore Baxter any more...
Frankie doesn't do anything like that! We have been saying, "Bang!" to her all day and laughing talking about Baxter. My kids all loved the videos!
Baxter!
You are very good doing all those tricks!
My mom wishes I could do something like that but I guess I am a wild girl!
Thanks for sharing the videos!
Kisses and hugs
Lorenza
ha! we try not to ask him to roll or bang on the hard floor because he hates it, too. for the longest time Baxter would only roll one way but then it finally clicked. he still has a primary preference for which way to roll.
roll, woof, bang and rooty all came about outside of class. down and come are from our CGC training, and taptoe and circle came from beginning musical freestyle. taptoe is normally called tip-toe but everytime I said tip, Baxter would sit because the commands sounded so similar to him, at least when I say it, apparently. Our instructor for both classes was this wonderful British woman whose accent reminded me of Mary Poppins. It made class a double joy to attend.
I love snow! Wish we had more, though Baxter doesn't particularly care for it. It would be fun to watch Baxter romp in 12 inches of snow - he wouldn't do it for just anything, but I bet a squirrel chase would do the trick.
ha! we try not to ask him to roll or bang on the hard floor because he hates it, too. for the longest time Baxter would only roll one way but then it finally clicked. he still has a primary preference for which way to roll.
roll, woof, bang and rooty all came about outside of class. down and come are from our CGC training, and taptoe and circle came from beginning musical freestyle. taptoe is normally called tip-toe but everytime I said tip, Baxter would sit because the commands sounded so similar to him, at least when I say it, apparently. Our instructor for both classes was this wonderful British woman whose accent reminded me of Mary Poppins. It made class a double joy to attend.
I love snow! Wish we had more, though Baxter doesn't particularly care for it. It would be fun to watch Baxter romp in 12 inches of snow - he wouldn't do it for just anything, but I bet a squirrel chase would do the trick.
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