Life As I Know It

We have been working really hard with the dogs to come when we call them while they are playing in the backyard. Well as any dog owner knows, dogs don't always come when they're called...at least during this "training phase".

Well our next dog neighbors' dog is so fascinating to Hank that I honestly think he doesn't even hear us when we call him but rather he just continues to run parallel to the fence. When I have gone down the deck to stand where he is running back and forth he seemed surprised to see me there...as though he literally didn't hear me hollering at him. Well this is has become super frustrating (as you can imagine) and the grass by that part of the fence has completely died (which you can imagine Matt is not happy about) that it is something I've been working on correcting since I had been home with the dogs everyday (until last week when I started working again).

After many different ideas I decided to just try something that I thought might work...and you know what??? SUCCESS! What is this "magic trick" you ask?

When the dogs come when called (the first time) they get to lick straight from their peanut butter jar (yep they have their own jar of pb) and you know what? This has been SUPER effective and I will definitely keep doing it...until it doesn't work lol