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cuddletalk2018-03-23 08:20 pm
icansavetoday) wrote in cuddletalk2018-03-23 08:20 pm
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[Steve Trevor is a smart guy. He knows how to do a lot of things. (And if you don't believe that, he's got some stories he can tell you.) But this? This has him more than a little out of his depth.]
So we could use a little help. Does anyone know anything about training a puppy? [It turns out that even doing all the research into how to do it doesn't make much of a difference when faced with the reality.
The puppy in question pokes his head into the frame, a shoe dangling from his mouth, before disappearing again. Steve disappears too, presumably rescuing the shoe from its would-be destroyer.]
That is not a toy! [He sits back down to address the camera again.]
He'll supposedly grow out of it, but first everything we own has to make it to that point.
[There's a crash in the background, and the sound of something breaking.]
Apollo, no! [Steve yells after the dog before getting up to chase after him, and the video turns off.]
So we could use a little help. Does anyone know anything about training a puppy? [It turns out that even doing all the research into how to do it doesn't make much of a difference when faced with the reality.
The puppy in question pokes his head into the frame, a shoe dangling from his mouth, before disappearing again. Steve disappears too, presumably rescuing the shoe from its would-be destroyer.]
That is not a toy! [He sits back down to address the camera again.]
He'll supposedly grow out of it, but first everything we own has to make it to that point.
[There's a crash in the background, and the sound of something breaking.]
Apollo, no! [Steve yells after the dog before getting up to chase after him, and the video turns off.]
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Steve.
We'll take advice from anyone who's got it, whether they're a professional or not. So we don't have to keep buying shoes.
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Okay, well...you're going to want to hide shoes...and remote controls, and throw pillows, and wastepaper baskets, and tissue boxes and probably a million other things I haven't remembered or that Prada never got into but Apollo might until he kind of settles down a little. Then you don't have to keep buying new shoes et al. So that's the first piece of advice. Anything smallish that you don't want destroyed, put it where Apollo can't reach it until he's ready.
You want to work on the simple things, first. Get a bag of treats, teach him to sit, lay, stay, come, drop it, leave it, and take it. In addition to housebreaking, if he isn't already. I'm happy to show you guys how, sometime, if you want. In person, I mean. Again, not a professional, just a doggy mama, but still. Little dogs are especially stubborn and Prada is a Pappillion, so...I had my work cut out for me. I have that experience under my belt at least.
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[He's big, even as a puppy.]
We might just take you up on that.
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