Evening Y'all,
Jim, killer news, go west old man!!
I had several morons this morning going to work to the point that Peggy was getting very big in their mirrors, now here is the kicker, My trip to work is 1.2 miles and I still deal with idiots

Good Evening.

Started doing the command performance training that worked so well with my first dog with Pepper today. Put a 20 ft leash on her and just walked around stopping often and not paying attention to Pepper. When she hits the end of the leash she catches up and walks close to me until she gets distracted again. You don't react good or bad to her being close or at the end of the leash. Just walk around and stop occasionally. When she wanders and is not paying attention you change directions so she gets yanked by being at the end of the leash. After a few sessions she will stop wandering off and will stick close paying attention to you without any commands or punishment. In fact, by the end of our first session Pepper was picking up and carrying the slack part of the leash while staying next to me.

When she gets consistent I will switch to her 6 ft leash and work on keeping her on my left side the same way. No yelling "no" or praising. Just walking, stopping, and changing directions. She just learns if she walks in the right place she doesn't have problems with the leash. After she starts staying to the left you start with the command heel as you start, and train her to sit (no command) when you stop.

After sit is automatic you work on stay and come while using the 6ft leash.

After she gets the 6ft leash down, you attach a 20ft cord to her instead of a leash. You just let it drag and step on it if she wanders off. As she does the straying less and less, you cut the cord shorter and shorter until there is no cord at all. Then you have a dog like my first dog that stays right beside you paying attention to you without a leash no matter where you go or what distractions there are.

Tried this with Camber. She never stopped doing her own thing and would just keep banging and pulling on the end of the long leash choking herself. She won. after 3 months I eventually gave up. That's what makes an alpha dog an alpha dog, they do their own thing no matter what.

Congrats Jim!!!! When do you move to CA?

Evening ladies and gents SmileWavy

Howdy Jeff.

Good news Jim.

Well, I guess Tapatalk is going away. I am getting ads now. They want a 12 bucks per year to kill the ads that were not there before. Screw em.

I have made it a point to not have social media on my phone, I spend too much time on the computer I don't need to weirdos in my pocket too. :)

Coffee's gone, I think its time to get going and have some breaky. And another coffee. I have to duc across town and pick up the car we left at a friends house lasts night. ;)

Thanks guys. We hope to retire at the end of March and head west not long afterwards. :)

Woohoo :D

Went to a party once. Don't remember how I got home, but I did spend the next day looking for my car AND my pants. Found them both, but not in the same place. It was a costume party, come as your favorite dead person. Went as Jake of the Blue Brothers. Did the cartwheel thing to the song Soul Man and crashed into one of the refreshment tables and got dip all over my pants. Was rushed off and depantsed by Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. Ended up in a hot tub with them. My car was at Natalie Woods, and my pants were cleaned and pressed at Marilyn Monroes.

So its one last winter in the cold and a white Christmas?

Yeah, one more. Then, we'll take off, eh.

If you are excited about moving permanently I bet it will feel like the longest 2 years of your life. :)

I sure hope not. This year has flown by. I hope the next 4 1/2 months continue that trend.

ha...good morning

I am awake and it is freakin cold outside.

Morning Y'all.
Yeah it was 28 this morning here
SCREW WINTER!!!

Yeah, WTF is wrong with me? Staying another winter? I should've retired yesterday and left for SoCal immediately!

Jim, you'll appreciate sunny warm SoCal even more after a hard Winter....here in NW Ohio, I enjoy up to about the 2nd of January, and then I could just fast forward to May.

We are supposed to be getting our first accumulating snow today YEEHAW !

Noooooooo!

Yay. We are under a winter storm warning today. Glad I don't have to drive much any longer.