Chasing a wiper… er, mop
September 28, 2009
Today at the daycare I only had a few dogs. Slow days are nice because I am able to do my chores. It takes a long time to keep a place like that clean! I’m sure you can imagine.
Dogs are messy.
So today, I was mopping and I had a young 9 week old Great Dane pup. I don’t know if he had ever seen a mop before.
He attempted to drink out of the bucket, bad idea little pup. There are unhealthy things in there.
Then, he followed me around biting on the mop. As I pushed it across the floor, he would chase it and get run over.
Can’t have that, I thought, so I taught him the meaning of the sound “eh eh”. Every good trainer has a wrong command. Some people use the word “no”, but I prefer to use a sound because it is less common and less likely to be heard by the dog when the dog is doing nothing wrong. (For example, your husband/wife asks you if you were hungry and you respond no). Dogs respond very well to sounds and I have great success with this particular command. So, the next time he bit the mop, I grabbed the scruff of his neck and said “eh eh”. That was it. He was done. What a good little pup.
Needless to say. An interesting day at the daycare today.
Coming up… more on the “eh eh” command….
Stay tuned!
