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by sands904 on 9/10/2008 at 8:03 PM in Dog TV Shows

Well, my dogs and I just finished watching the Greatest American Dog. I have to say I was a little disappointed that little Andrew the Maltese didn't win, but I am very glad JD and Galaxy didn't win either. Travis and Presly were very good and also deserved to win, but I though Laurie and Andrew has the greatest love and bond with each other. I was hoping he would win to show all of America that little dogs are dogs too and can do everything that big dogs can do in their own way. To all of you who watched the show it was great and I hope they have another season. To those who didn't watch it, you should definitely do so if there is another year.
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by sands904 on 8/25/2008 at 8:48 PM in Dog Walking

My husband and I used to take our two Chipoos for a walk together, but since his new job has taken him out of town during the week I am left to walk them alone. I started walking them together which proved to be a challenge even though they are little dogs. They are not properly leash trained and love to pull and tangle up the leashes.

To work on this I decided to take them on separate walks so I could give a little one-on-one training for each of them. This has helped but the interesting thing is neither of them pull as much when they are alone. I am not sure why this is except for maybe the fact they are like children and always want what the other one has so maybe they think it is a race and each wants to be in the lead.

They also don't bark at other people or dogs as much when they are out alone. I thought maybe my male Chipoo was barking to protect my female Chipoo which he may be but I find it interesting that she barks less when alone also.

I am going to keep walking them alone for a while longer and hopefully they will learn enough that we can have a nice long, peacefull (not pulling) walk together in the near future.
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