Well it has been 4 days and Cricket is doing good with her training. Mom has been working with her with the leash, the watch command and reward marker. This is a sound or noise you make to let your dog know she has done something right. Similar to clicker training. She is doing really good with this. Mom makes her stay and Mom will walk clear across our back yard and our yard is hugh and make the clicking noise with her tongue and Cricker comes running. She does really well for being close to ten months old. The reward marker wouldn't do me any good since I can't hear a dang thing, but there is nothing wrong with my nose especially with those special human grade beef jerky pieces made for dogs Mom getrs at Gourmet Pets, but they are so tiny Mom will give me one and it is like a grain of salt. They are perfect for little Cricket, but man I can barely taste them. Mom knows I shouldn't have that kind of stuff, but I am 14 yrs old and don't how much longer I am going to be on this earth she thinks I deserve a little pleasures in life. So far I haven't had any problems with the treats.
Well Miss Cricket, started her first puppy class tonight and of course I had to stay home by myself. It is not fair!!! Mom said she did good, but next time she wasn't standing near the lab. He was flipping out and had Cricket all stirred up. The weather was nasty and cold. Now the homework begins (hehehe) sure glad I don't have to do any homework
This weather is crazy...this weekend it was almost 70 F and then monday and tuesday it snowed off and on. Miss Cricket is going to puppy school. Mom enrolled her into the K9 Academy. She starts school next tuesday. Mom say's she is actually doing well with training, but thought she needed the class anyway and also she can socialize with other dogs. I think a little prozac is what she needs. Man what energy that stinker has. She has a lot more energy than I did at that age and I had alot of it. Mom said it was the terrier in her. She acts more like her mom the Rat terrier than her Chihuahua dad. Mom has been taking her to the pet store when she has to relieve Beckey for Dr. appointments,. Mom wants her to get more people friendly. She is doing better. She likes little kids which is good as a lot of little dogs don't. She is more leary of adults than little kids. She even let the 4 year neighbor boy pick her up. Mom was shocked. Mom keeps telling me, she will never be as sweet and as smart as I am..but I know mom and even dad have become attached to the little stinker. I have to admit I have too. If she would just STAY OUT OF MY FACE!!!!!!!
Well since it was warm Saturday, Mom decided to try and give me a bath. I hate baths!!! She got me into the bathroom and told me to get into the shower and I suprised her, I walked in on my own. I must have been dirty for me to want a bath. I kept falling down as the shower floor is slick and I have a hrd time standing, so mom told me just to lay down and she would scrub me the best she could. She ended uo having to hold my hind end up so she could rinse me. Finally she was finished and tried to towel dry me they best she could, she yelled at dad and told him to let me out, and then she showered herself while cleaning the lab hair out of the shower. She came out and there was water everywhere and I was laying in the middle of the livingroom. Mom asked dad why I was still in the house, he said "I thought you said don't let her out" Mom was not happy everything was wet from me shaking and rolling. So mom let me out into the warm sunshine and started mopping and trying to dry things out. Cricket was running around me like crazy. She had never seen me act goofy. It felt so good to be clean, so I was rolling around in the grass. finally I had dried off rnought to kay on my bed. I took a long nap. Bathtimes are hard on old girls.
Well Mom just signed Miss Cricket up for Puppy class. Cricket is doing pretty well with training, but being part Terrier, she does have a stubborn streak in her. She does well with the training at home, but being around other dogs, she is having a bit of problem with not wanting to listen. And also she will be entering her teenage years and that is not a fun time for humans as we seem to forget what we were taught. Also Mom feels Cricket needs some socialization with other dogs. I never went to school although mom had me recieved a gift certificate for a class, but I hurt my front shoulder and couldn't attend. As it turned out I didn't need the class anyway, and mom really didn't like the instructors methods. She found a lady that does more of a positive class, so she signed Cricket up. The lady also has had numerous types of Terriers, Bostons, Jack Russells, Cairn etc. She also is a foster parent to dogs from all over the USA. She right now has a Cairn Terrier that was a total mess as he was rescued from a puppy mill from a Amish farm in Penn. when she first got him and he has come a long ways.
Mom and I are getting old and falling apart. My old rearend is just giving out on me. I went down hard today and when I finally was able to get up I was limping pretty good. Mom feels so bad for me. Mom has had bronchitis and she ended up at the Chiro with 3 dislocated ribs and numerous virtabraes were out. She suffered with big time headaches this weekend and wasn't able to sleep, as she couldn't find a comfortable potition to lay it. I even gave up my couch, but it didn't help either. We wished we was young like Miss Cricket so limper and full of energy...IT IS HELL TO GET OLD!!!!!!
Well looks like spring is going to be late this year. We have been having snow again. At least it is pretty much melting and gone before late afternoon. Mom had to go and relieve Beckey at the shop for about an hour and half. She took Cricket with her. She did pretty good. She did bark at some customers, but mom picked her up and introduced her to the customers and then she was fine. She does love kids, even the little ones. She is doing really well at the stay command. When ,mom gets out of the car, she makes Cricket stay until she is out then she tells Cricket OK!! and Cricket jumps out of the car. Then she will walk in front of the car and mom tells her to stay so she can help me out of the car. Then she tells her OK!! GO TO THE HOUSE and she does and waits at the door for us. Dad doesn't have as much luck getting Cricket to listen. Mom has told him just what and how to do it, but you know men..they don't listen. He has a hard time communicating with me. Mom says he is in denial that I am completely deaf. I know what mom's handsignals mean..dad's I am not sure of since he has came up with us own..MEN!! Now if we could just get Cricket to stop pawing my face...I hate that. She is very gentle when she does it, but I still hate it. Mom made a batch of blueberry cookies for Cricket and me, she also made some strawberry ones too. Boy they are yummy. She figured that there shouldn't be anything in them that would hurt me..besides blueberries are supposed to be good for you.
Well we are having typical Eastern Oregon March weather, one minute it is snowing the next the sun is shinning and the daffadils are trying to push up through the cold ground. Two days ago Cricket and I were helping Mom pull up her lavender plant. Well mom was pulling and cutting branches and putting them in a pile wheile Cricket and I took them out of the pile. I stopped after a while, but Cricket continued to grab the lavender branches and take off with them, not making mom a happy camper, She finally got it dug up and filled the hole in and raked the spot nice and level. We went inside, and Cricket stayed outside. Mom went in and took a shower as she was smelling quite heavy of lavender. As she stepped out of the shower, Cricket shows up in the bathroom dirty head to toe. Mom knew she must have been digging and she did. She dug 3 holes right where mom had just level off the spot were the lavender had been. Oh mom was not very happy, then she notice something on the floor, it was a big night crawler, Cricket dug up a night crawler and had brought inside. Mom was really not happy. She yelled Cricket and of course the little turd shot outside and stayed just far enough away from mom, so she wouldn't be caught. I tell you nothing that moves on the ground or in the ground will be safe from Cricket. Mom said she knows we won't have a mole problem with Cricket anf I araound. We may have hug holes in the yard, but no moles or gophers.
Well we had a quiet Easter. The kids went camping on the coast in there new tent trailer. Mom was sad as we always spend Easter with them. Mom put Easter things on us and Cricket flipped out. She had better get used to it as mom likes to do those things. Cricket was playing outside. She came running into the house like a bat out of hell, which she does a lot of time jumps in dads lap. Dad yelled what do you got on you. She had the yellow liquid all over her side. Mom looked at it and took a smell and it was urine. What urine how did she get urine on her...the Easter Bunny???? No we are pretty sure it was the neighbors black lab Gunner. Cricket really likes Gunner and they play through the fence. Mom thinks Cricket was standing at the fence when Gunner decided to take a pee and got Cricket. Of course Cricket got a bath...hehehe that will teach her to come in with some new peefume. We got some blueberry cookies and a little slice of turkey for Easter. Man I thought I had died and went to haven.
Well it has been quite a while since I have posted. Cricket has grown. She now weighs 7 lbs 6oz. I have accepted her as my little sister even though there has been times I still would like to eat the little rat, especially when she has to get in my face. She is always pawing my face and I don't like it. I have never bit her, not that she hasn't deserved to be bitten, she has, but being the sweet gentle girl I am I haven't. She now has joined mom and I on our walks. She does pretty good except she will cross infront of me causing me to stumble. She hates her collar and harness and will run away when mom gets them. I still get my walks alone with dad. We don't think dad could handle the both of us.
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