My Dog Diary

Darl has been complaining that I haven’t been following the Cesar Millan’s way to walk Xiao Bi for the past few days. He said I was too soft in terms of controlling her. Hello! She is huge for me ok… -.-

Anyway, I went walking Xiao Bi this evening myself. I walked her the way I want her to listen to me, and I think it went pretty well. She sat instantly when we met a small dog on the way back and I asked her to sit. She didn’t struggle to go to the dog. She followed when I walked, and she stopped when I stopped. Although yes at times she tried to sniff further than I allowed but she came back immediately once I pulled the leash. No struggling and pulling from her. It could just be one of the best walks that I’ve had with her so far.

Before we returned, I practiced with her in front of the house, walking round and round, again and again. She followed with no question asked. When I turned, she turned. When I stopped, she stopped. It was just so perfect!

I wouldn’t say that she is not 100% rehabilitated, but I would give a score of, say, 70%-80%. She is just so extra sweet now, that I believe very soon she will no longer be referred as my forever-rebellious GR.

For the record, I’ve been bringing Xiao Bi out for evening walk for, erm, I think 4 continuos days now. Instead of having my ideal morning walk, which I always failed to wake up on time, I guess it’s better than nothing if I could bring her out to know her environment in the evening.

There were of course, countless times of dragging, dragging, and dragging during the first day. Darl was with me and he was handling her so I was OK. The second day, as darl was working, I thought, well perhaps I should bring her out and see what happened, together with my mum and my little niece. It turned out pretty well. She wasn’t dragging me much and was quite under control. We all enjoyed the session.

On the third day, we passed by her new friend’s place and saw him bathing! Xiao Bi was so excited and ran to the gate. They both communicated with each other with the gate in between them. That was a nice session too. Not too much of dragging, pretty much under control.

Today is the fourth day and I thought, ahhh everything will turn out OK, since she has been picking up her walking-manners. It turned out I was wrong. I was being dragged, and knocked into bruises on my leg, before, during, and after the session!

Arrrggghhhh!!!!!