Faux Bells

On our walk through the park tonight we worked on calmly greeting people and dogs - no playing. The BACK command, getting Banjo to walk backwards, has not been going well. Unless we push him back, he will just sit down.

After our three inches of rain, the farm was a bit wet, so our produce pick up was quick. We did make time to see the pigs before two of them meet their demise this weekend. Banjo is very focused watching the chickens.

Banjo loves his dinner. As Lisa prepared his food, I told him to go to bed and he hurried to the crate. He heard the food clang as it hit the bottom of the bowl and he bolted out of the crate, crashed into the wall, and raced down the hall to assist. "Go to Bed", he went back to the crate and laid down waiting patiently for the "OK".

Unexpectedly, we also worked with the doorbell tonight. The television show we were watching just happened to be filled with doorbells. Banjo sprang to attention with each "ding dong". Every time the bells sounded, we had him SIT and STAY while we went to the door, opened it, and had a faux greeting. Good practice since we have so few actual visitors.