Puppy expectations

Angus was a big howler. Tried to find a video but can't on this machine. I bet Pico is super cute doing it.

 

Then at two they go thru that "puppyhood" thing again at least to an extent but in dog years they are 14 so that probably explains most of it... at least they don't start asking for the keys to the car and know more than their parent about just about everything..

 

But they still want to go for car rides if you're going anywhere even if it's not fun

 

Or teach them to drive....

Deacon is a howler.... For some reason the word 'Peek-a-boo' sets him off. When hubby travels, he can get him going when we're video chatting. The last time hubby traveled, any time we'd chat, Deacon would get SO worked up; hyper almost immediately when he heard and saw hubby cuz he just knew that word was going to sneak into a conversation somehow or other....

 

It has been odd but all our Shelties have never wanted to go for a ride-- we've used crates to carry them and we used harnesses that buckle to the seat belt (which they seem to like better than the crates) but none of them "want" to go for a ride and sort of give us a resigned grimmace.. They like being in new places but whenever we went to visit relative they would love being there and when it was time to go home they just said-"nah we are happy here"- they were happy when we got home. All of our other breeds of dogs have loved the car--we used to go back packing and we had an Irish setter who would hook his paw thru the shoulder straps of our back pack when we brought them out of the closet so that bag did not go anywhere without him..He would go into a panic when we loaded the car cause he was the last thing we loaded and he was soooo worried that we would forget him.

 

That's not the way it is at my house. Anytime I head for the door Teddy is ready to go. I use a harness and seatbelt connection
It maybe most places we go, want to give him a treat regardless if it's the bank or the drivethru and he knows he gets the 'good stuff" if I go to the coffee shop.

 

When Dewey was alive he threw up in the car every time on the way home from puppy class. It was a treat based reward training and they never seemed to make it home inside the dog. The only good thing is I never had to worry about him gaining weight attending his class.
He never got past the level 1 class (took it 9 times) but he had a good time which is why I kept taking him. He did learn allot but I never believed he was ready to be off leash which was their level 2 course.