Margaret Tyler
Posted : 8/16/2006 9:47:29 PM
He jumps once, when I pull out the leash and then concentrates really hard on settling down and sitting. It takes him a few seconds, but he sits. It's kind-of funny, like, "Awesome, I'm going some where! Oh, this is just too cool. Oh, yah, I have to sit first, but I'm just, just too excited...sitting, now."
I used to get really frustrated at him for jumping all over me when I would hold the leash. I would put the leash back in the closet and wait for him to settle down before I got it out again. He's learned, but he still has to get that one jump out. Just one jump, straight up in the air, not on Mom, cause he's just too excited.
It's cute and not bruising me, so I let him get away with it.[

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Now, if he thinks he's going somewhere and then we don't actually take him. He does all sorts of nasty things to the house. Only if it's both of us leaving. If I leave on my own, he's okay. Or if my husband leaves on his own, it's okay. But if we both leave together, he gets really offended Like, "Fine. You didn't take me, I'm going to poop on the floor and pull the cat cans out of the garbage."
We usually take him, if we can. But, like today, we were only going to get ice cream.