This is the one where “no” means “no.”

Posted May 26th, 2009 by Mike Lawson

As you know, I’m now an official crazy dog person.  We’ve got 2 adolecsent pups.  And we keep asking ourselves, “What the hell were we thinking?”

The 2 dogs get along, for the most part.  They are still working out some of the who-will-be-the-dominant-dog drama.  But Olive is large and in charge.

As I’m writing this, Bazil is in getting his balls removed.  So hopefully he’ll give up on trying to hump Olive.  She was getting a little pissed that he kept mounting her yesterday.

And we’ve done some reading, we’ve realized that we aren’t supposed to give a bunch of attention to the submissive dog (in our case Bazil) after Olive has give him an old-fashioned butt-kicking.  We’re supposed to reinforce the pack order and give Olive a treat or pet her.  Our natural instinct was to console Bazil.

And walking 2 dogs is an entirely different story!