Well something extremely exciting happened that I forgot to mention in my last blog and that was that a stray who we named Roger (I like Zorro better but whatever).

I was walking back to my dorm and he was there, so I got him to follow me to my building, and then ran to get my leash and made a noose. I would have loved to have had a chain link collar, because he, and I knew for a fact, had no training because his healing heeling was so bad, but I did some work with it.

I was waiting outside when this girl who is in my Improv Club, who I have no idea what her name was, but I will call her Lauren for right now. So Lauren says "awwww what a cute little puppy" using a *baby voice*.

Now mind you this was a full grown, neutered, male. he Based on his appearance and body type plus personality he was a lab hound mix.

Then I decided to do some recall work with him. I would have preferred a lunge line, but I didn't have that at the moment so I worked with what I had. It was going okay until the unthinkable happened.....THOSE DAMN TREAT TRAINERS CAME INTO THE LIGHT!!!!!!

Lauren said, "oh, I'm good at training dogs."

I say. "oh, well I've been training for about four years. What method do you use?".
The rest needs the same treatment, but I leave that up to you. (evil grin)
She looks at me with confusion at first then I think ha ha caught ya then I explain what I mean and she says oh my mom uses clickers (gag me with a spoon) but I use the treat training.

I was like oh my gosh wow ew so I go eh it works for people that do it right and I told her I use the Koehler method of course she didn't know what it was. It was hard for me to explain it exactly I told her how we let the dog learn it mentally so that it figures out what were asking of it with constant practice.

So I finally got around to working the sit on Roger (the dog) he actually didn't pretty good but if I could have worked with him everyday it would be heaven.

I actually thought about taking it back but then I thought one it has ticks uh so not happening two Margot would kill me!

So then Lauren starts to play with him and then this is where it made me mad. Roger grabs her coat arm and I say off I don't know why I didn't say give ha ha I wasn't thinking about it bad me.

So then when I get it out of his mouth he keeps going at it so I say leave it each time because they kept talking about how he was going to be our mascot.

I say well to even be considered he needs a bath first and some really committed training or else there is no way of us keeping him. THIS CHICK IS TEACHING HIM TO BITE and so he stopped when I kept at the leave it and she says "oh he's just playing" ya playing for now and also he jumps on people so I had to tell him off for me he wasn't totally misbehaving maybe I had my alpha pack aura on that night.

It made me madder and madder when they kept making baby voices and playing with him in a way which teaches him bad manners I took him aside every now and then as to get him under control.

Oh but hahaha the whole point of this was to talk about how I missed training I wonder if I can train a dog when I get back I personally don't care if I'm not paid I will do it for free as long as I can train!

Sometimes I wonder if I did you any favors by teaching you so much. Will just have to hope things work out. Meanwhile, what happened to Zorro, aka Roger? If there is a way to keep him hanging around your dorm, why not do it? Most likely at least until it gets bitter cold, if he has food and water he will make do. After all, dogs have been making do for thousands of years and do have a bit of practice at it. The critical needs will be food and lots of it, water and a place out of the wet and wind.

Meanwhile, if you spend some time working with him every day, why not call him Zorro? Its for sure he will be more willing to answer to your Zorro than he will be to answer to their squeaky Roger.

Just a thought and most likely one that, if you get caught, will get you in trouble.