Pictorial Essay Of An Old Dog Learning NEW Tricks

Dispatch never has learned the stay command too well.  I mean he would stay.  As long as you were saying stay constantly and maybe threw some sternness in there and didn't like get more than a few steps away.  After that all bets were off.  We would work on it but it just never did seem to get done.  Dispatch is 7 now.  Due to him being in the truck with Daddy and I and he having to be like TOUCHING one of us @ all times we thought it was necessary the other day to make him stay. 

Actually what brought it on was he went to sleep by himself in the bunk because he was so exhausted...he doesn't sleep while the truck is moving.   He's saying how could you do this to me, don't you miss me?

If I act all cool an nonchalant they will let me go right?

Hey you over there in the drivers seat?  See me? 

Oh come on, I know you see me, I've stayed for like 2 minutes......

This is getting ridiculous.

That's it, make a bridge so I can walk over to your lap Daddy.....

What do you mean you were just kidding and I have to STAY?

Hey you, there in the back with the flashy thing?  DO SOMETHING!!!

He now knows what stay means, he is none to happy about it however.

The quality of this video isn't the greatest but you can get the idea. Dispatch walks for long distances on his hind legs. He's stopped traffic doing it.  I think he's pretty good, he really can go like 20 feet but has to be in the mood.

He can also turn circles and walk backwards.  He doesn't always need a treat to do this, just want something like attention.  Today he needed a treat. 



I am talking babytalk, I really can enunciate and say words properly, actually I talk more like Marilyn Monroe (really it's Joan Rivers).