Hello everyone! We hope you guys had a great weekend. Charlie over here had a pretty lazy weekend lots of peeing on trees, went to the dog park, slept in till noon one day (I almost resorted to a cold bucket of water)! Over ate one day and had the worst farts all night!! YUCK!! Silent but deadly is soo true in his case, he is after all shaped like a hot dog....! I let it all slide because I knew what was in store for the little weenie this week...TRAINING. Dun, dun, DUN.
Charlie has an issue when people he doesn't know come into our office or home; he barks and gets a little aggressive. As you can imagine this can be quite annoying especially if I'm on the phone so, enough is enough. I called the trainer I took him too when he was a pup but unfortunately it was going to cost me some big bucks for a personal training session. So I studied up over the weekend and found out I need him to recognize his "place".
Today we did about 10 mins of training, you never want to train for too long, you get frustrated which means your pooch is already frustrated and that = nothing good! Check out our video below
For the first day I think he's doing pretty good! I'll post another video by the end of the week to actually see this in "action"
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Lunch TIME!
Oh Charlie whatever are we going to do with you?! Every day I eat my lunch and Charlie sits there and watches me in hopes that I'll be a messy eater and drop some food. Sometimes I do on purpose so he can have a little excitement on his lunch break, (don't tell him that tho, it would probably take out the excitement of it)! Well, recently he used that ticker and thought about how he could get more food, I'm assuming it went a little like this, "Okay, so she doesn't drop that much food, and she won't willingly give me any of her food, how can I get more?? WAIT she loves to give me food when I do those dumb tricks she taught me, but she isn't asking me to do any tricks. hmm…..”
As Charlie thought up this fabulous plan that was sure to work, I was off eating my lunch and wondering why he was being so calm and quiet. I should have known he was devising a plan...weenies are just too smart now a days! Low and behold that little doxie comes over to me, makes a little grunt for me to look at him I look over at him and he's on his back with all four paws in the air. At first I just brushed it off as nothing, but that really made him upset! So he does another loud grunt and again I look over, yep he's doing just what I thought... rolls over puts all his paws in the air again and does another satisfying grunt as if to say, "Okay Mom, I'm playing dead give me that treat of whatever smells so good on your plate that I know I deserve!" Still on his back, making grunting noises and looking up at me with these longing black eyes, I just busted up laughing. There was no way I couldn't give him anything. I mean to figure that one out all on his own...he's a genius! ;o)
That was the WRONG thing to do, now without fail every lunch, its grunt bark roll over, grunt bark roll over and play dead, grunt bark why aren't you giving me any food!!! Grunt bark lay down? Grunt bark BUT MOM!!!! So now I have this gruntie weenie doing all his tricks perfectly just to land some human food. Now you tell me, who owns who???!!!!!
As Charlie thought up this fabulous plan that was sure to work, I was off eating my lunch and wondering why he was being so calm and quiet. I should have known he was devising a plan...weenies are just too smart now a days! Low and behold that little doxie comes over to me, makes a little grunt for me to look at him I look over at him and he's on his back with all four paws in the air. At first I just brushed it off as nothing, but that really made him upset! So he does another loud grunt and again I look over, yep he's doing just what I thought... rolls over puts all his paws in the air again and does another satisfying grunt as if to say, "Okay Mom, I'm playing dead give me that treat of whatever smells so good on your plate that I know I deserve!" Still on his back, making grunting noises and looking up at me with these longing black eyes, I just busted up laughing. There was no way I couldn't give him anything. I mean to figure that one out all on his own...he's a genius! ;o)
That was the WRONG thing to do, now without fail every lunch, its grunt bark roll over, grunt bark roll over and play dead, grunt bark why aren't you giving me any food!!! Grunt bark lay down? Grunt bark BUT MOM!!!! So now I have this gruntie weenie doing all his tricks perfectly just to land some human food. Now you tell me, who owns who???!!!!!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Finally!
FINALLY! After much consideration and pushing from our friends Chelsey and Jeff, we finally decided to start a blog! Charlie really started putting the pressure on when he found out he won dog of the year; www.dogphotogblog.com. This is my first time composing a blog so you’re probably going to have to "bear with us" for the first few posts. I'm not going to lie...its a little nerve racking just thinking about the millions of people who are going to be reading this everyday! YIKES! ;o)
::drum roll please::
Charlie was born on March 26, 2010 in AZ, I wasn't able to hold him until 2 months later but the moment he came into this world he was already a huge part in my life and many of my friends! It was a task to get him as I had to convince my roommate/bff/wifie that he was just the right thing for our little household, (and by little household I mean 2 cats, 2 gold fish and 2 people).....!!! Let me tell you..that was sure a task as she wasn't the doxie loving kinda gal! After much consideration she finally agreed, (happiest day of my life to date), and ever since has been one of his biggest fans! To make a long story short BAM I got him and it was love at first sight! Actually, it was love at first sight for many of my friends and family.
If you don't know a doxie you must get one in your life, they are lovers to say the least. They are like little children who never grow up, always looking for your love, acceptance and attention. Some can be a bit yappy but luckily Charlie has never "found" his voice, some type of birth defect, but I'll take it!
Charlie is a "working" dog, I'm an office manager and he's my secretary. Not the best secretary as most days you can find him fast asleep under the desk, but if that phone rings and he needs to give someone a message he is out the door faster than you can say, DOXIE! :o)
So here we find ourselves almost a year later; lots has happened, and I will try and recap every once in a while on the past year, but for the most part we will move forward and share our stories of the new year. We thank you for stopping by and checking up on his once in a while!
::drum roll please::
Charlie was born on March 26, 2010 in AZ, I wasn't able to hold him until 2 months later but the moment he came into this world he was already a huge part in my life and many of my friends! It was a task to get him as I had to convince my roommate/bff/wifie that he was just the right thing for our little household, (and by little household I mean 2 cats, 2 gold fish and 2 people).....!!! Let me tell you..that was sure a task as she wasn't the doxie loving kinda gal! After much consideration she finally agreed, (happiest day of my life to date), and ever since has been one of his biggest fans! To make a long story short BAM I got him and it was love at first sight! Actually, it was love at first sight for many of my friends and family.
If you don't know a doxie you must get one in your life, they are lovers to say the least. They are like little children who never grow up, always looking for your love, acceptance and attention. Some can be a bit yappy but luckily Charlie has never "found" his voice, some type of birth defect, but I'll take it!
Charlie is a "working" dog, I'm an office manager and he's my secretary. Not the best secretary as most days you can find him fast asleep under the desk, but if that phone rings and he needs to give someone a message he is out the door faster than you can say, DOXIE! :o)
So here we find ourselves almost a year later; lots has happened, and I will try and recap every once in a while on the past year, but for the most part we will move forward and share our stories of the new year. We thank you for stopping by and checking up on his once in a while!
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