Above was about 4 weeks ago. He’s still improving and has been to 2 training classes so far. I’m not learning a whole lot in the classes except the trainer’s technique to get the dogs to walk with a loose leash seems it would be better than mine, except this pup isn’t very treat motivated.
He’s still a very aggressive chewer and we’ve been buying Kevlar-reinforced “toughest you can get” chew toys which last him about 24 hours.
The trainer suggested “extra large” elk antler chews as the best for super aggressive chewers and last a long time. Yeah, right. Six (6) hours and he had it broken into splinters.
These things are $20-$25 each - why so expensive? Maybe they’re harder to come by than I think they’d be.
He still slips up about once a week - 10 days and finds a pair of shoes or soccer cleats to eat, especially on rainy days when my old dog doesn’t want to be outside. The new pup is still taking cues from, and deferent to, old dog, but that won’t last more than another 2-3 months based on my prior experience of dog pairs. Anyway we have a lot of old shoes kept in cubbies for when we go kayaking and what not. Higher value stuff we’ve got secured away outside of the dogs’ permitted roaming zone.
Or so I thought.
This is (was) one of my favorite hats. I’ve got at least 2 of these from each Florida RJ location that sells them with the badge and bill front (in small lettering) denoting the RJ (Disney apparently won’t let RJ make “RJ - Disney” location apparel). And they don’t seem to make them anymore (just ugly black ones). My other Key West RJ hat itself is also is pretty ugly after using it for 12 years mowing.
I took out the trash and recycle bins, being gone not more than about 3 minutes, stupidly forgetting the hat hanging on the back of my chair.
