Training is so hard...
I been working HARD on learning not to be SO EXCITEABLE...
...but that it hard too.
I am all "Hello new person!! Let me give you PUPPY KISSES!!"
New persons do not all want me to CLIMB THEM to give them FACE LICKS.
I do not know why.
Stooopid humans.
I am learning not to do that. I am RE-learning not to do that! I was being good for a while, but now I am all "I NEED YOUR LOVE!!" again, lately.
So we go on walks, and to stores that allow dogs anyway... and I have a nice cape that says 'in training' for when they need to know I am still learning. :/
At home, I am learning new ways to do things, and new things to DO, too!
I have decided that I am a LADY DOG, and not just a puppy.
I like to sit in a very polite, regal pose, just to remind Dad and Pa that I am a GROWING GIRL, and I turned a whole year old on the 20th of march, so they cannot ALWAYS treat me like a puppy now. They have to let me grow up.
Except puppy cuddles time. That doesn't count. I will do that FOR-EV-ER!
I have decided that I do not like canned food. Canned food is puppy food. No more puppy food.
I only want kibble, and my grassy stuff- dad says it's called "Preference" and the folks at Honest Kitchen make it- he adds it to my kibble with some water. ...but even then, I only want that for BREAKFAST. For dinner, I want PLAIN KIBBLE.
I'm so grown up.
See how my tastes have changed?
Yes. Grown up Cora is SO Grown Up!
Perhaps this will mean, soon, that I can go WITH more often... especially with my cape and gentle leader. If only they could make me calm down a little, when it is time to go out! Gracious... I just get so excited, I forget for a little bit, how Grown Up I have decided to be...
Dad says I am a teenager now- like a 15 year old human. That I will REALLY grow up between now and the next six months... so he is going to try to Ramp Up the training a little.
It will be a little difficult, because Dad is going to face a new challenge. He has been seeing doctors, especially in a place called "Oncology". That word makes him a little upset, and he doesn't like the appointments there, but he is going to get more tests...
...and then a thing called "Surgery". He promises me that I can HELP when he gets home from Surgery... he says puppy kisses will be enough, but he is hoping that I will not be all freaked out that he is sick. Because apparently you feel sick after Surgery.
Which is wierd, because Dad says that this Surgery will take out some more bad stuff, called Tumours, and that after it is over he will be BETTER...
How come they are going to make him sick to make him better?
I am a confused girl-dawg, becoming a lady-dawg, who likes to be a puppy-dawg...
But human vets confuse me... when dad goes to his vet, who he calls "Doctor", he won't take me WITH, because I am not calm enough yet.
How can I be CALM when Dad is upset and sick???
Humans.
You confuse the Cora-pants puppy so MUCH!!
Hrmf.
...but that it hard too.
I am all "Hello new person!! Let me give you PUPPY KISSES!!"
New persons do not all want me to CLIMB THEM to give them FACE LICKS.
I do not know why.
Stooopid humans.
I am learning not to do that. I am RE-learning not to do that! I was being good for a while, but now I am all "I NEED YOUR LOVE!!" again, lately.
So we go on walks, and to stores that allow dogs anyway... and I have a nice cape that says 'in training' for when they need to know I am still learning. :/
At home, I am learning new ways to do things, and new things to DO, too!
I have decided that I am a LADY DOG, and not just a puppy.
I like to sit in a very polite, regal pose, just to remind Dad and Pa that I am a GROWING GIRL, and I turned a whole year old on the 20th of march, so they cannot ALWAYS treat me like a puppy now. They have to let me grow up.
Except puppy cuddles time. That doesn't count. I will do that FOR-EV-ER!
I have decided that I do not like canned food. Canned food is puppy food. No more puppy food.
I only want kibble, and my grassy stuff- dad says it's called "Preference" and the folks at Honest Kitchen make it- he adds it to my kibble with some water. ...but even then, I only want that for BREAKFAST. For dinner, I want PLAIN KIBBLE.
I'm so grown up.
See how my tastes have changed?
Yes. Grown up Cora is SO Grown Up!
Perhaps this will mean, soon, that I can go WITH more often... especially with my cape and gentle leader. If only they could make me calm down a little, when it is time to go out! Gracious... I just get so excited, I forget for a little bit, how Grown Up I have decided to be...
Dad says I am a teenager now- like a 15 year old human. That I will REALLY grow up between now and the next six months... so he is going to try to Ramp Up the training a little.
It will be a little difficult, because Dad is going to face a new challenge. He has been seeing doctors, especially in a place called "Oncology". That word makes him a little upset, and he doesn't like the appointments there, but he is going to get more tests...
...and then a thing called "Surgery". He promises me that I can HELP when he gets home from Surgery... he says puppy kisses will be enough, but he is hoping that I will not be all freaked out that he is sick. Because apparently you feel sick after Surgery.
Which is wierd, because Dad says that this Surgery will take out some more bad stuff, called Tumours, and that after it is over he will be BETTER...
How come they are going to make him sick to make him better?
I am a confused girl-dawg, becoming a lady-dawg, who likes to be a puppy-dawg...
But human vets confuse me... when dad goes to his vet, who he calls "Doctor", he won't take me WITH, because I am not calm enough yet.
How can I be CALM when Dad is upset and sick???
Humans.
You confuse the Cora-pants puppy so MUCH!!
Hrmf.