A couple of days ago I decided Rory was old enough to go down to my basement, so I opened the babygate at the top of the stairs and invited her down the first couple of steps (to the landing by the door to the garage).  Much to my surprise, she freaked and was unable to bring herself to go down 3 steps.  Even when I opened the door to the driveway ( Read more... )

I usually tend toward pretty conventional cues or commands for behaviors I actually want the dogs to do (sit, heel, etc.), but we've got a few odd ones.  Kyah does a "curtsey" instead of a "bow" because she had trouble distinguishing between "bow" and "down" although that's not that unusual.

The current odd one is Rory's cue to go in her ex-pen or ( Read more... )