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cuckoo pants puppy in your class with the apparently clueless
person on the end of the leash? What we like to call in dog
training land, over threshold? That was us. My idea for puppy
class had been some stays, some recalls, some circle work.
Not going well.
When I asked the teacher for help about what to do when my
puppy was meltdown freaking out of insanity from the other
puppies running around,
she replied "Well, I think
this is what happens when
people with quiet little
slow dogs go out and get
themselves Border Collies.
Then they think they're going to be so easy to train."
I had to think about this for
a second. According to my
passive aggressive decoder
ring, I was obviously the
"they" here.
"I didn't think it would be
easy...geez, all my dogs
have been hard to train."
Which is super, incredibly
true. Also, they are totally not slow.
"Doesn't everybody with a Border Collie have a first one?" I
honestly don't remember how she answered this. But it definitely wasn't the answer I was looking for to fix the Tasmanian
devil I had on my hands.
"Border Collies aren't the right dogs for everyone," was
pretty much all I was going to get.
So. Not. Helpful. I dragged Banksy back through the class of
running puppies, and shoved her into the car. Only thing I
could figure out to do. Then I dropped out of that class. I don't
know whose brain was fried more. Banksy's from watching all
the other running dogs, or mine. Both of us have brains that
sometimes explode.
But I was a Border Collie
person, I could feel it deep
down. I loved her hiking
with us in the woods and
her wild, goofy spirit and
the way she flung herself
into the pond. I loved all
her funny circus tricks and
how she brought back the
Frisbee every single time,
no questions asked. She
just wanted to learn, she
wanted to play, she always
wanted to do it again! She
was sweet and goofy, a fluffy
weirdo who had some
complicated personality traits that my simple skills couldn't quite
figure out. Being a lifetime confirmed non-instruction follower,
now I really needed some kind of manual to unlock the predictability of unpredictability. A little booklet and the Special Tool
required for all 50,000 weird-shaped screws. I needed Tim Gunn
sweeping in with a pocket square, belief in me, and a hug. I just
had to make it work. D
To be continued...
Laura Hartwick is a huge fan of both dog agility and Project Runway. She spends a lot of time wandering around the forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains with her brave
dogs, Team Small Dog, on a perennial vision quest for her spirit animal, Mr. Tim Gunn. You can also find her at www.teamsmalldog.com.
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