We were supposed to have a behaviorist come and see Benny and Luca tonight to start working on resource guarding. However, Benny ripped a toenail the other day and we were going to take him in to the vet today so we rescheduled with the behaviorist for next week. I thought dog toenails were like people toenails in that they would just fall off when injured. I looked it up online yesterday, though, and apparently it’s one type of injury that you should take the dog to the vet to get looked at. It’s now been about five days since we noticed the injury. Oops.
So today I get up and Benny walked by me and I noticed his nail was just barely hanging by a thread, flopping around when he walked. Completely grossed me out. It didn’t seem to hurt him much when I gently pulled at it to see it if would come off. I didn’t want to tug too hard and cause it to bleed, so I just left it there and figured that either he would chew it off or it would fall off somewhere outside while he was running around. At that point we decided that we wouldn’t take him to the vet after all; his toe itself didn’t seem inflamed and he didn’t pull away when we gently prodded the foot, and we really don’t need a vet bill on top of everything else. About an hour later I noticed the nail had indeed fallen off and everything looks fine. We still may do a foot soak with Epsom salt as I hear that is very healing to wounds.
Dad and Dani were supposed to come down this past Friday and stay until Tuesday but Dani got a bad cold and they didn’t want to infect us folk with it, so they stayed home. Velvet and I had already taken today off of work, so we decided to keep the day off anyway and we went and got pedicures. It was especially nice for me since I can barely reach my feet these days, but because it was a nail school, the tech I got was very timid. I wanted to be all, get in there, get those calluses! But I don’t think she would have understood me. Oh well, it is what it is, and at least my toenails are pretty.
We went out to eat at Café Rio after that and it totally raised my blood glucose when I tested it a couple hours later but I had pretty much expected that and I figure high numbers once in a while is probably ok compared to high numbers all the time. Velvet dropped me off back at home, and then it was time to do some training with the dogs.
So far I had done two trainings each with the dogs, using 50 treats each time. Today I decided to use 100 treats for each dog’s session. I am still working with getting them used to the harnesses. Benny actually picks up training pretty quickly. I would like him to be in a seated position when I work on getting his harness on, but he seems to like being in a down position, so that’s what I am working with. He seemed to quickly get the gist of my moving the harness up and down, touching his body under the harness and adjusting the fit of the harness. I also worked on taking off the harness and putting his feet into position to get the harness on. Ideally he would just step into the harness, but at this stage I will take what I can get. When he was done with his session I put him in his crate and let out Luca.
Luca took awhile to settle down as he is ALL about the treats and likes to mug me when I sit down. Luca really doesn’t like having his paws touched, so I had to learn to touch and click quickly so that he was more interested in getting the treat than he was in moving his feet. Eventually we worked up to me putting on and taking off the harness, adjusting the harness, and moving his feet into the harness holes. By the end of the session he was letting me move his feet into position pretty well. He was still kind of weird about me touching him under the harness and adjusting the harness, but I think that was more because he was trying to figure out if I had treats in my hand.
So far for the 1,000 Treat Challenge we are up to:
Benny = three sessions, 200 treats
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I had to open a new bag of training treats, so I think we will be using them at a nice pace. I had an email from Amazon that the remaining treats are being shipped later than anticipated. To be honest, I had forgotten there was more to that order that we had not received yet. All in all, we can probably do a number of 1,000 Treat Challenges at this point, and I’m ok with that.
While my next skill building I’m planning on is to work on leashes with the intent that we can someday walk these dogs, there was a video that really spoke to me that I watched today. It was about training incompatible behavior techniques. For this woman, every time she bent down to pick up something from the floor, her dog would mug her face. This is something our dogs do as well and I would like to train them out of it. Eventually she trained her dog that every time the woman bent over, the dog would go into a default down position.
This is definitely something I’d like to work on. It seems like it would tie in nicely with a “leave it” command.
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