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Cool Matty: If you post on this thread again you're banned. And I'm seriously contemplating banning you the next time you introduce politics to a thread that is easily /not/ about politics.

You should name him "Ad Hominem"

You should name him "No GED"

Not necessarily. We call my puppy Pup, Puppers, Little Fuzz, Fuzz, Little Nose, Little One, Bailey (his name), Bay-bay, Bay, "The Animal"...

How about naming it Schubert? Or Maverick!

Raisin Brahms!

Oh god yes.
MAVERICK

If that was intended as in insult, it was quite poor.

Not as poor as the educational outcomes for your income quintile!

Soap

Well if you're trying to say that I don't have a GED, I don't. I have a highschool diploma. I'm currently attending university and I'm on the dean's list. So suck a fatty, nerdboy.

MacTavish?

Dude, if you're going to respond to a perceived attack by Jon'C you at least need to double check your spelling and grammar or risk lending credibility to said perceived attack.

And I don't have a GED so maybe it was directed towards me anyway.

You're awfully defensive. In fact, I might even describe you as butthurt.

Heh. I think I know why you're so butthurt.

Actually, I thought Jon'C's Koa suggestion was cute but I'm going to stick with Utah. I have to start calling him something and I'm trying to actually bring this dog up right using techniques in a book I've had for years called Smarter Than You Think.

No no no, you misunderstand me. I'm only interested in arguing with you when there is a point. I do have some level of respect for you.

However.... Picking on a walking, talking prototype of the Dunning-Kruger effect? A borderline-literate who allegedly stumbled onto a 3.5 GPA in what I am sure is a challenging program at a prestigious university? I have no problem with that.

Let me know how that turns out. I have a puppy, and I'm probably going to end up just investing in obedience school when I get the time. I'm not having any trouble training him to do tricks and follow obedience commands, but sometimes it's hard to get his attention. It might just be a puppy thing.

Ramirez would be better.

"Ramirez! Come here, boy!"
"Ramirez! Put that down!"
"Ramirez! Defend the Burger Town!"

Actually, you often misunderstand me. I didn't think that was a shot at me and my comment was in jest. Kind of like when I paraphrased Biden's comment about bHo being clean and articulate. My humor can be quite quirky and since I generally neglect placing the obligatory smilies to imply sarcasm it often gets misunderstood.



The general premise of the book I have is that the most important thing for your dog to learn is to come to you. The method the author ascribes to is called the magic touch. He accidentally found that throwing an object at the dog left the dog with the impression that you can "magically" reach out and touch him. So, basically, you call your dog. If he comes to you, you take hold of his collar and praise him. If he doesn't, you throw something (soft enough not to hurt him) at him to get his attention. If he doesn't come, you take hold of his collar and bring him to where you were. Either way, when he gets to the point he should be, you praise him. This all seems so much easier with a puppy because he wants to be with you anyway. Once the dog is trained to come and stay with you, and we are not even involving a leash, everything else is so much easier. I think I am really going to have a good time with this dog especially because he is a mix of two extremely intelligent breeds.

Ooh, that IS cool. When he dies I could just yell "RAMIREZ!!!" and he'll come back to life!

...You just derailed your own thread?

If you say so, not sure that a reference to a mediocre movie would derail the thread but we'll see, I guess.

Name it Warthog. I just named my car Warthog.

I wanna build a warthog!

Santa's Little Helper!

I have nothing to prove to you.

Short for Walter Bishop, naturally.

I'd never thought of that angle, but **** it, YES.

How about Barney?

You're supposed to be in bed.

Training a dog is one of the best things you really can do with a dog, even if he/she remembers absolutely nothing about it. My dog hardly remembers any trick accept "Sit" (and "shake" for some reason), but probably the one thing that she did pick up from training was that we can get near her face and she won't get pissed off. A lot of dogs don't particularly like when you get up in their grill, especially if it's kind of a surprise thing if they are sleeping or whatever. Our dog doesn't give a **** and just licks you back thanks to the training.

All this puppy talk though makes me miss my dog

Clearly.

Utah is the correct name for that creature.

Yeah, I like it. He's turning out pretty good, so far.

Probably. It's just like a little kid. He'll grow out of it, most likely. My dog did.

Rather than start a new thread, I decided to bring this one back to the top. Admins feel free to close if this is unacceptable.

By popular demand, a new picture of our puppy! Two and a half months old and already about 24 pounds!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPuppy

UNACCEPTABLE

(Yay puppy. ^_^)

Ronald Reagan.

I think you should call them (white lab) Don Quixote and (little one) Sancho.

I forgot to add that I don't think I had the dog longer than four days before animal control came-a-knockin'.

A little bit of back story: My chihuahua, Pepi, is a bit of an escape artist. If you happen to have him outside with you or let him out unattended for just a minute he might jet. Well, Animal Control picked him up twice I think. One time was very frustrating because someone had called us but also called them before my wife could get there; I was deployed during all of this. Once my boy got in his face when he shouldn't have and he snapped at him. My wife took him to the ER just in case and later the police and AC showed up. One of my neighbors had no hesitation telling me in casual conversation a month or so ago that she once called AC on my dog. They say that they will kill my chihuahua if they catch him again.

Anyway, housebreaking my new puppy has entailed me putting him outside when he messes in the house. During the first few days he was not used to being away from mama and his siblings so he would cry when he was alone. Even after just a few moments outside. So, the Monday after I got him as I was getting ready for work AC showed up and said someone called about a dog being outside all night. It was cold so I could see why someone would worry but we never had a dog out all night. The dog did mess around 10 PM, 4 AM, and a little later and was outside briefly around those times.

I hate busy-bodies.

oh, bTw, he is house broken already. For the most part.