When he was younger, he made an attempt to eat the house. He finished off a sofa and loveseat, part of the carpet and started on the doors. Now, he and I argue about food all the time. He only eats when he feels it’s necessary and it drives me crazy.

He is so different from the rest of the pack and I adore him.

Personally, I would like to eat the Macbook so I could have my mom all to myself. Also the iPhone.

Kat

Mochi

I’m glad that your birth certificate was spared. You can get a new one (if you’re a US citizen) I discovered recently. But, it takes a while.

BTW, you talked about learning to ‘read your dog’ in SAR training. That was the single most important thing that I learned from SAR that I apply in my daily life. If you watch your dog’s body language, you can learn a ton about what’s in the woods. I made the same mistakes as you in SAR before I learned that my dog’s body language was the single most important thing to focus on (and the wind direction for air scenting).

I think that SAR was the most amazing dog-training experience of my life. But, around here, they still require handlers to use compulsion-based training. Ear pinching to teach a ‘take-it’. When I approached them about my back and whether I could participate in some way, they offered to give me a human partner on all searches who would do any heavy work and be my guardian. Then, I watched a training session, and I knew that I couldn’t do the physical pain-based training on K. She’d fold, and simply give up on me and the world. Some dogs can handle it but I know that my K can’t. Now, R might be able to… but that’s another story.