Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The game all pups love to play













I believe it's called Try to Bite the Other Guy's Head Off (Not Really!) Here Brando is playing it with Eva, Leslie and Craig's dog, who stayed with us two weekends ago. Brando loooooves this game. But Eva loves it even more. When he would get tired, she would bark at him and scratch his nose to try to provoke her into playing more.

Tucker, who's nowhere near as fond of the game, now that he's a geezer (in spirit, if not in years), just stayed with Eva Saturday and Sunday, while the human members of the pack were in LA for the book festival. But Brando got to go to Benjie's house, another mecca of puppy pleasure.

Progress Report


Brando has graduated from the CCI Basic instruction. Last week he and 5 classmates were tested and our teacher gave Brando 9s or 10s on everything he did -- a solid "A" performance!


He has now learned:


  • Sit

  • Down

  • Wait

  • Out

  • Let's Go

  • Drop

  • Here

  • Dress

  • Roll

  • Shake

  • Stand

  • Car

  • Under

  • Heel

  • Side

  • Off

  • Speak

We start the Advanced class next week!