Mom is mean

since when did walking nicely on leash include "not smelling" things? what's the point of even walking a dog if you don't let them smell things? might as well leave them at home. BAD MOM.

 I was teaching him "head up."

"Joker I know how you feel. I try to drag my mom down the road but she says this word called "heal." What the heck is that? I don't listen, I just keep on pulling! Maybe that's why she dosn't walk me a lot anymore? Or is it because I need one of those harness thingies so I don't hurt my throat? I dunno but I miss walkin'. I'm not allowed to have dead things either!

How did we end up with mean moms? I'll come stay with you! We can have all the dead things we want!

 ~Your roadkill smelling friend, Lily"

 Conformation and obedience dogs are taught not to sniff when they're on leash. It's part of the training. My dogs are allowed to sniff when they're on harnesses or off leash, but NOT when they're on a collar and "working".

Ena totally feels your pain, Joker. Poor little girl hasn't been off leash in TWO WEEKS, because she's in season. She hasn't been allowed to go "out and about" much, either.

Hai Joker!   Dis is Mowwison!  U kin come an stay wif me an Monwoe cause we getz to run and pway off R leashes at dat park at least one time a day.  We has to "leave it" when we are told to but if we do dat den we kin run run run!

I iz not doing con-fur-mashun but in agility we runs off dose leash tings too!

U shud come an stay wif us...I'll wait on de dwiveway fur you!

 Thanks Morrison. I'll be headed that way. Might take me a while since my nose gets the best of me and I have to smell all those smells!!

Thanks Jennie for making me not feel so bad anymore about not letting him sniff so much on our walk last night.

 LOL, I had this vision of a conformation dog walking around the ring, nose to the ground, picking up all the treats dropped by other handlers.  Cause that would happen you know, if they were never taught to keep their heads up...

I make Crusher keep his head up when he's in a heal position.  He's not even remotely hound, but if I let him just sniff all the time, we'd never get anywhere.  There's a time and place....

 Walking Joker is probably the closet thing to walking a Bloodhound I imagine! He only lifts his head up to see what Lillie is doing or to get a treat from me. So I figured it was time to teach him that his head needs to be up when he's on leash!!

Sam's not a show dog or an OB dog, but 90% of the time I make sure his head is up. Sam is only 1/3 my weight but he can drag me all day, and that is NOT going to happen. He has his time to sniff around whenever I say so, he's gotten to wear he looks at me like 'Your sure? I can go sniff and pee on everything now? Reallly?!' I have to 'release' him 2 or 3 times before he will go be a dog. LOL. Nothing wrong with you being in control and making him behave, so don't feel bad about it!

kle1986

Anyone out there want to give me a better home that will let me eat cat poop, dead animals, roll in them, and play with soft squishy kittens?

Srously?NO cat poop OR ded aminuls?Yous gots it ruff!

Jewel

 Yep Mom says the eating cat poop is nasty? Dont know what that means. Taste good to me. And if I want to avoid getting baths all the time then I cant roll in dead animals. Well maybe if Mom didnt give me baths I wouldnt have to roll in dead animals!! She didnt understand me though when I tried to tell her.

Poor Joker......our Mom doesnt make us go on a leash unless we been bad and run out of our boundries.  We tell her 3 acres just isnt enough!!!  She does make us take a baf tho when we roll around on those dead thingys, I dont understand that but I dont mind cause I luv water...my brother Hot Shot dont like water and he dont like a baf but Daddy says we are stinky and cant come in the house.  I bring my Mommy those mole thingys too oh and those mouse thingys.  She makes bad faces then tell me "Good boy"  then tells Daddy so he gotta take it away from me.  Im getting good with that "drop it" thing they always say cause I get a special pat on the head and they say "Good Boy" again.  So if you wanna come visit me and Hot  you can bring moles and mouses to my mommy and she will pat your head and say "Good Boy".......

PS I hope you like gettin wet

 I like baths if she gives them to me in the bath tub. I dont like the outside baths. That long snake looking thing is no good!! Thankfully it's too "cold" to get outside baths now!!

Yeah Mom says I cant come in either if Im stinky. Well I dont stink!! What she talking about?

I dont bring Mom the dead animals or cat poop.I eat and run away!!! Hmmm maybe if I did that she wouldnt fuss at me? Oh but I need to taste them!! The cat poop is just so yummy.

I dont like "drop it or leave it." Those words make the good stuff go away. The Mom tries to trade me treats for whatever it is she dont want me having but the treats arent as good as the forbidden stuff.

I think we should all run away together and do whatever we want!!

LMAO!