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?
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