It's been a whole combination of ups and downs with Bella. Love her to death, but I must be horrible at dog training. My dad teases me that she has become a full contact sport because I am so covered in bruises and cuts. I look like I have been abused. She just plays way too rough and I can't seem to teach her the right way. But I watch videos and read about it all the time, so I am trying new things to try and work with this. So far one of them has been working very very well today.
We are also relearning come. She tends to take come as a game, so I got her some new treats to try and teach her this better. So far today it has been successful.
I have added dog training to my list of the perfect guy. I am going to need to marry a dog trainer who also wants to live out of a van, travel, do homeless ministry and be a musician. It'd also be nice if he loved camping and had an artist mind....yeah. We will see if I ever find him. Haha. I have my doubts.
Hopefully pictures to come soon.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Bella in the snow
This is a video of Bella's first experience in the snow. It's not that exciting, just her playing in it, but she had so much fun!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Snow Day!
We got a lot of snow (in Ft. Worth standards) today! It was extremely beautiful and exciting. Bella absolutely loved pouncing around and eating the snow. In fact, it was hard to get her to eat real food because she just wanted to eat snow.
She was very good today until the last few moments before bed time. She was outside playing in the snow, and when she came in, she jumped up and started biting me. I hope that that was meant to be playful, but when I said no and turned away, she got extremely aggressive! She was growling at me and testing me like no other. I had to put her in the bathroom for a minute to make her calm down and know that I won't let her be around me when she is like that. I get scared because she has chow in her and I don't want her to become aggressive. But every time I lock her in the bathroom and then let her out, she licks and licks and is very calm and behaves. The Retriever in her causes her to be very friendly and social and eager to please, and she has only ever shown aggression towards me. And it has only been lately, so I am going to try my best to correct this behavior.
I think this may be her testing to see who is boss, and as much as I love her sleeping with me, I think she is going to be confined to her crate at night now. She's got to learn that I am Momma and she must behave. She won't always be small enough for me to pick up. Prayer needed in this journey to raise my pup.
She was very good today until the last few moments before bed time. She was outside playing in the snow, and when she came in, she jumped up and started biting me. I hope that that was meant to be playful, but when I said no and turned away, she got extremely aggressive! She was growling at me and testing me like no other. I had to put her in the bathroom for a minute to make her calm down and know that I won't let her be around me when she is like that. I get scared because she has chow in her and I don't want her to become aggressive. But every time I lock her in the bathroom and then let her out, she licks and licks and is very calm and behaves. The Retriever in her causes her to be very friendly and social and eager to please, and she has only ever shown aggression towards me. And it has only been lately, so I am going to try my best to correct this behavior.
I think this may be her testing to see who is boss, and as much as I love her sleeping with me, I think she is going to be confined to her crate at night now. She's got to learn that I am Momma and she must behave. She won't always be small enough for me to pick up. Prayer needed in this journey to raise my pup.
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