Adina P's Blog – March 2009 Archive (4)

Rosco's airhead mother's near-miss evening...

Tonight was almost a disastrous flop since it took me 45 minutes to make it to a restaurant that was probably 10 minutes away since I left 5 minutes before my 'date' with Tante because I screwed up my google map by NOT putting in the address and NOT realizing it and wondering WHY "Curry Corner" was NOT on the corner my map said it was on and why it wasn't taking only "1 minute" as the map said. LUCKILY Tante found a nice young man at the restaurant who talked me back onto the correct roads and… Continue

Added by Adina P on March 18, 2009 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

We're HERE!

We pulled in to our hotel parking lot close to 7pm and immediately we went for a jog/walk. As I said before I HATE HATE HATE driving long distances and my thigh was sooo sore! (Clarkipoo is typically the driver of this family and at most I drive 1-2 hours on ANY length trip). Go ahead, laugh at my wimpy self :-p (though I only stopped ONCE when I missed an exit).

So we walked the neighborhood for 10 minutes or so for Rosco to shake out all his potty needs and then while we checked in… Continue

Added by Adina P on March 17, 2009 at 8:30pm — 11 Comments

Rosco and I are Taking a Road Trip!!!

I'm heading West for training and JUST booked the hotel and off we go in a couple hours.

I HATE HATE HATE driving for longer than 1 hour in any direction and we're going for 5 ... ugh.

But with Rosco on board it will be much more nice =) plus I won't be lonely in the hotel and Rosco will get the royal treatment hanging out with me on the normally-off-limits human furniture!

We may even get to meet Tante from Doodle Kisses!

But don't ya worry...I'll be checking in every… Continue

Added by Adina P on March 17, 2009 at 11:26am — 9 Comments

Interesting article on training and learning!

I saw a link to this article on a training forum and found it to be very interesting and wanted to share with everybody here:

smartdogs.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/great-expectations/

For me, this gives a little insight into why training methods that use both reward and punishment seem to be very effective (in my opinion). Dogs learn when they get things wrong, but if nothing much (that… Continue

Added by Adina P on March 10, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments