This weekend Tilly came to stay with us again. She's still injured and needs to stay calm, but she's not in much pain so she doesn't want to stay calm. Her presence this time unfortunately led to a lot of stress and a lot of inactivity. Not great, and there were some tense moments when she wanted to take her general annoyance out on Monster. And Monster became quite frustrated after a while and started a lot of bad behaviors, like charging the fence when people walked by and barking his head off at the neighbors. Bad behaviors, and unfortunately they didn't go away when Tilly did...
Anyway, not a lot done on the list of things that should be done (can't remember it right now): very little walking, no training. That kind of thing.
Today was slightly better, although not great... We started off better than we finished, you could say. We've walked about two and a half hours today, and we've also done some training. I tried the "do as I do" on our walk too (so typical me, to rush things), it's really proving to be a lot of fun! I can't say it's working well yet, but at least it's interesting. Monster seems to have grasped that there's two parts to it, first the "watch me" and then the "repeat". He'll watch (usually), but as for repeat that's not so sure... Some things seem to be a lot easier, things I do with my hands or when I get up on things work most of the time. But for instance when I tried to head butt a chair back, he ran up to the chair and started pawing and biting the rug under the chair. That was weird, and it took me a couple of tries to realize that he's not watching what I do with my head: he's watching where I look! So when I bent to put my head against the chair, I was looking at the floor... Interesting... He also (and this may be related) has shown no tendency to map his body against mine and repeat things like lying down or spinning around, rather he's focused on the parts of my body he's used to taking cues from: face and hands... We'll see how it goes!
And tomorrow is Baking Tuesday, so I'm not sure I'll have anything to tell you then either. Fingers crossed...
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| Oh sure! Who needs to make an effort when we can just hope for luck... |
