Dear Daisy,
I love you very much. But there is one thing that you do that perplexes me.
Considering that you sleep on the bed and have free range of the furniture, I would consider you to be well trained. So why is it that when I ask you to "Lay Down," you insist on rolling over too? You sit, lay, and then roll. Did I ask you to roll over? No. You just want to show off and hope that I am impressed enough to give you a treat.
I stress to you that "Lay Down" and "Roll Over" are two discrete tasks, and that by asking you to perform the first task, I do not necessarily want you to complete the second. Consider that there may be unintended consequences to rolling over. Rolling into people, furniture, other dogs, off ledges, or into puddles--these are all legitimate concerns or actual experiences.
So in the future, let us both try to avoid rolling over when we are not asked to.
Sincerely yours,
Philip
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"actual experiences." I'm getting a great mental image of you rolling into a puddle, Lil Philly.
ReplyDeleteMy parents' dog does the same thing, so, I decided that instead of telling her to lie down, I tell her 'bang' and "shoot" her with my hand. Now it looks as though I worked really hard to teach her this trick. When, actually, she probably worked harder to teach me.
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