Speakin' of Dogs (OT)

I currently have three Dalmatians.

Two are complete and utter couch potatoes, despite their reputation for being "high energy".

Jake was my problem child before I found the right trainer (and a Halti halter collar!). I would've never called him hyper...

But he was athletic (darn dog would jump into the back of pickup...with the tail gate up!). And very, very impulsive -- I'm going down the road one day, he jumped out the window to go chase a turkey in the woods.

Now that Jake and I are both trained, he's soooo much more under control -- about the time he thinks about going to eat that Chihuaha, he just sighs and puts himself in a SIT because he knows I'll do it otherwise :)

I work out of state and get home late Friday nights. Not long ago, got home and my family told me that the couple got caught out of town over night and called to ask if I'd go over and make sure that had enough water. I was gonna just walk over across the fields and do it right then before I had a late night dinner, but it was about 10 and my family talked me out of it. Next morning I walked over and let myself in the fenced yard, and it was in its kennel. The second it saw me, began trying to chew its way through the chainlink and leaping at the gate to get at me. Good thing the gates latched at both the top and bottom and is chainlink over the top too or at 6'2" and 240, I'd been hamburger. I drug the hose over from the hydrant and the whole time I tried to get water to it, it chewed at its huge steel water dish, the water, the chainlink, and if it could've... me too. Didn't bother me much to close it all up and mosey on back across the fields. None of my dogs have never been like that, none ever will. I'm a dog lover, but not that one.

Mark

Give him a couple of years and he'll be fine. He's got a lot of puppy trying to come out of a dog's body. Lucky for you both he has a place he can run rather than chew.

Dr Dolittle