Sitting outside on this unseasonably warm day (high of 26/31 with humidity in March?!), working on a paper and watching Jackson experience the backyard. He is such a super pup. He entertains himself, and loves just sitting, listening, and watching to things going on. I love that he is a watcher, and not always a doer - he's curious, but not a crazy puppy. He seems to have inherited one boxer ear, and one lab ear, so one sits above the other when he perks them up. It looks like he is tilting his head. We've also noticed that he has a wee boxer underbite!
Recent progress - several "sits" yesterday without any pressure on his bum or hind legs! Teaching him to wait before coming through the door, which he has taken to quickly today since his favourite thing to do when he doesn't know what you want is to plop his little bum down to sit and look at you. And just now, putting my oatmeal dish down on the ground (since I'm in a lawn chair), and telling him to leave it alone, which he did quite willingly.
Andrew and I are reading "Dog Training for Dummies" which is very comprehensive, and has given us the above ideas for how to introduce little training sessions into the day even when we are busy. After all, he gets fed, goes in and out, and the humans eat multiple times each day even when things get hectic! As the book says, it only takes a few minutes, some repetition, and consistency. Next on the list: the "come" command, which he doesn't fully understand yet. He thinks it is an optional thing ;) We've read up on the exercises we need to do and we'll be working on it!
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