Good training is imperative for your dog, and it doesn’t stop once your dog is trained. If you want reliable dogs, it’s important to continue to reinforce commands.
Just because I’m lying on a bath mat doesn’t mean I’m taking a bath. You try that shit with me Mama and you won’t know what hit you.
I worked very hard to train Delilah to stay on a bath mat while I’m in the bathroom. Truthfully, I don’t care if she sits or lays, as long as she’s not sticking her head and body between my legs looking for butt scritches. Some days she actually gets up and goes into the bedroom and lies down on the bed.
Ooops, that’s my bad, I should really enforce that once she’s on the mat she needs to stay there, but as long as she’s not in my way, I don’t care.
It’s not that I don’t love that she wants to spend time with me, it’s just really hard trying to put on eyeliner or mascara when your dog keeps shoving her head between your legs because she wants butt scritches. There have been days I’ve walked out of the house looking like Norman Bates in the final scene from Psycho.
*Note to self, now is NOT the time to ask, Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?
Not. A. Pretty. Picture.
Every couple of weeks when I doing my Saturday chores, I toss the bath mats in the wash. This week after I washed them for whatever reason I put Delilah’s bath mat in front of the sink.
And yesterday morning, in no uncertain terms, she let me know the mat was in the wrong spot.
You said I could stay in the bathroom if I was on my mat. I can’t help it if you are on there too. Isn’t this togetherness nice? Now scratch my butt woman.
She came in, wedged herself between my legs, sat down and farted. I laughed so hard I almost cried. (I really want to get that on camera, because this dog can fart.)
So after an uncomfortable 30 seconds, in which I tried to get my make-up on, and then tried to take a photo, I had her get up and moved the mat back to where it belonged.
Don’t look at me like that. I don’t make these crazy rules, you do. I’m just here to do your bidding. Now can I have my breakfast?
Consistency is key. She’s so used to being on a mat in the bathroom that wherever the mat is, she’ll try and utilize it. If it gets her butt scratches in the meantime, well that’s a bonus for her.
Do you use a mat or the place command? What happens if you switch it up on your dog? Do your dogs know their place?
Priceless and a fart thrown in! Ours are heathens with scant heed to the rule of law. We do prevent bathroom battles by not letting them upstairs. The cats just get to fight it out on the edge of the bath.
hee hee dogs are always there to point out when we make a mistake aren’t they! Mity was once on the settee and we told him to get down and so he lay down and looked as pleased as punch! Well what could we do, he had done exactly as asked so he got to stay on the settee (I think I ended up on the floor!) Now we use off – lesson learnt!!
OMD we laughed at the fart part. No mats for us here. However God forbid anyone comes round and sits on my chair. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
Best wishes Molly
LOL. My pack of 3 dogs (1 large and 2 extra large) that follow me everywhere (and I mean everywhere), I’m lucky that they know not to bother me in the bathroom. They just find a spot to sit or lie down and heave great sighs. Waiting. Very heavy sighs if I’m putting on mascara… that means I’m leaving the house and that’s never good news for them.
Cupcake will Park It on her official Park It Mat. I reinforce that occasionally, but have yet to try it at an outdoor cafe, which was my original purpose in using it. She uses her mat at the public library when we work at Read to a Pet Night, and it works like a charm. As soon as this evil weather breaks, we’re taking the mat and heading to Starbucks. Fingers crossed.
I have wanted to teach a “place” command but haven’t gotten around to it. The whole farting thing made me almost spit my coffee out … LOL!!! She has such a sweet face.
Wow…maybe you can train her to fart on command…hahaha…so funny
Yes..my dogs will lie wherever i put their mat…i am going to put it near my front door and start training them to mat when someone comes to the door…my new endeavor…we will see
All three of us really suck at come, but the one thing we all do really well is stay. It can be anywhere, indoors or out, sitting, standing, or lying down, we just do it. Bailie is the only one that accompanies Mom upstairs to get ready in the morning but she selected her own mat and just goes there automatically. Now if Mom could figure out why we do the stay so well and not other things, she would be really happy!
That face! She really is such a cutie 🙂 We are working on Kenzie going to a “place” – right now her favorite place is our lap (if she actually stops moving!)
Good girl Delilah. You learned your lesson well. Now we have to train your mama! lol
LOL. You always crack me up!! These guys know their places. Currently Roxy is on my left side on the couch, and Torrey is on my right. Don’t screw with their plan, they would be lost.
Funny stuff woman. See she is learning, she wants the mat in her spot. My dogs don’t stay anywhere’s I guess I don’t tell them to stay anywhere’s. I don’t like it thou that Gman always takes my hair towel when I am in the shower and goes out in the loft to lay on it and makes me run out there to get it.
BOL!!!! My one husky Koda can fart to!!! So many times I have mistaken it for my hunny when it was the dog. ( and you can clearly tell it was the dog when the smell starts to fill the air) But I have never heard a dog fart like that before Koda!!!!
I haven’t tried the place command yet. I know I probably should. They do know however that when I am at the counter making dinner, that if they stay back by the door and not beg, they will get part of what i’m making, providing its dog safe.
((husky hugz))
frum our pack at love is being owned by a husky
Bwa ha ha ha! I’ve done a similar project with Honey’s crate in the bedroom and her bed in the kitchen. Her pull to her place is so strong that when I get a treat out, she immediately runs away from me to find the appropriate place to get her cookie.
Boy, can that dog move.
Luckily, she does not also fart. 🙂
I’m picturing all this in my mind and laughing uncontrollably. Yes, dogs like consistency and routine and love to remind us of the error in our ways when we lack those.
The only place where Blueberry really gets in the way is in the kitchen and if I tell her to move she will go to her spot on the runner I have in front of the dog door. She’s the first dog I’ve ever owned that is perfect about not bothering me in the bathroom or when I am getting ready for work. Even my foster dogs have bothered me in the bathroom. I had two fosters that would enter the bathroom when I was in there, uh, tending to business and in order to get them to leave, I had to cough up two paper cups they would then leave with to tear apart.
Delilah cracks me up!
Oh. My. God! This is TOO funny! If they weren’t different breeds, I’d swear Shadow and Delilah were sisters! Shadow cannot stand it if she’s not right in my face in the bathroom! The only thing that keeps her from sticking her head between my legs during “private moments” is that she doesn’t like the sliding sensation she gets when her paws touch the linoleum! LOL! And Ducky — the little sneak — loves to block Shadow’s path to Mommy. She will literally run around Shadow and into the bathroom and then lay across the mat the long way so that Shadow can’t reach me without stepping around her or over her! Shadow has gotten tired of Princess Ducky’s snarkiness, so she just takes a lesson from Callie and walks away, pouting. Bless her heart! Ducky is a spoiled little brat (but cute as a button). 🙂
That is so funny! Well, at least you know she knows “place” for sure! We send these guys to their beds, but they don’t really have a place. Since I’m working on the Relaxation Protocol with Cooper and Lucas, I’m hoping a solid understanding of place on their mats is one of the outcomes. It would be so convenient!
I think I’m really glad they haven’t invented smellovision yet. 🙂 What a funny girl she is. And so smart! Rita (sort of) knows “go to your bed” – but like you said, consistency is everything and the momma is super lazy about reinforcing things. Should really be better about that!
lol! That’s hilarious!
We actually don’t have any particular place markers for the dogs – no X marks the spot. If we’re making dinner in the kitchen, they’ll get an ‘out’ command, but then the just plop themselves in front of the doorway, watching. They don’t have to be there, they could be anywhere but in the kitchen, but that’s where they choose to beg with their eyes.
Otherwise, they’ll just stay put where ever we decide to give sit/down/stay cues. Or usually a ‘get back’, followed by ‘sit’, if they’re in my way.
My morning routine usually just involves avoiding getting dog drool on my clothes at all costs before leaving the house. Not always successful.
I’ve never really needed that with the girls….they don’t really get underfoot. But it is definitely something I’ll need to teach Luke….he likes to “help” me get ready in the morning by constantly licking me, and actually coming in the shower when I’m trying to dry off! I’m slow enough in the morning as it is, I don’t need anyone slowing me down anymore….I can barely get to work on time as it is!
Oh Delilah! You are so darned cute. 😀 No, Maya and Pierson don’t have a specific rug or dog bed to go to. I just have them sit and stay. They are really good at sitting where I want them to. They are even good about staying most of the time. They are very very good about sitting and waiting for me to fill up their food bowls for breakfast or dinner. They know not to get up, not even a little, or I will stop and it will take longer for their meal to be served.
That means you did one heck of a job training her to stay on that mat. Nicely done Jodi. 🙂
As for the farts…I never have the camera on hand for the weird, wacky, and yucky things my dogs do either.
that’s a very clever trick, she looks so peaceful on the matt
retro rover
The bestest Part is the PHARRRRRRRRRRRRRT.