Given a Choice
Anyone who thinks that dogs don’t understand choices, has never met my dogs. I give my dogs choices and they seem to understand. Maybe its the urgency in my voice, but when they are given choices, they respond in appropriate ways. For example, tonight, I said “Cheyenne, lay down.” No response. “Cheyenne, you need to lay down if you want love.” Bingo. She laid down immediately. Or the time Jackson was growling and snarling at Cheyenne and I said, “Jackson, be nice, or else you need to get down.” He knows both these commands: “be nice” and “get down” and guess what? he chose “be nice” so he could continue to sit by me on the couch. I don’t do this real frequently, but when I do, I am amazed at the way they respond.