Joined
·
103 Posts
So here's how my morning goes: I wake up, feed my dog, wait an hour for food to settle, then drive down to the bay and take him for a good run. Without fail someone will see us coming and pick up their small dog, sometimes glaring (not all the time). My dog and I BOTH ignore them and continue with our jog. At first it used to make me upset, but it happens so often that now I laugh. One lady saw us coming a mile away and picked her dog up, crossed the street then came back over when she was past us. My dog doesn't even glance at them. Maybe it's something with their dogs, but it happens constantly with small dogs. So now I've decided to make it a challenge: for every person who picks up their dog (or freezes in fear) Tucker and I do another lap. We also get compliments sometimes from people who have worked with Malinois and GSDs before, so every compliment cancels out an added lap (the compliments don't come often). This new tactic gets us more exercise and gets Tucker used to people picking up their dogs and pulling them away from him. Unless he's fresh out of the car and excited (only for a few minutes), he 100% ignores them. Once he's in the running mode he's golden, but people still get scared.
Some people and their dogs amuse me.
Any other challenge ideas to throw into our run/work out would be great!
Any other challenge ideas to throw into our run/work out would be great!