dogs

[velessa]

So, we're going to be picking out a puppy and bringing her home on Saturday. Right now the name I'm leaning toward most is Sequoia, but I don't know about the rest of my family. I'm kind of worried about bringing a new puppy into the household, mostly because I don't know what kind of influence Yukon might have on her. He was never properly trained and now he's more wrecking ball than dog. I don't want her to learn any destructive habits from him, so I'm not sure what to do about it. I've been working on obedience with him, but he's just so stubborn and dumb as a brick that it's very frustrating. I can't make progress very quickly with him and he's utterly, totally food motivated; he doesn't care what you think of him and won't work simply to please you, he'll only pay any attention to you if you have a treat for him. Well at least I'll be around to work with the new dog; when we got Yukon I was off to college and since no one else is around to do anything with the dogs, he never got any real training. Bah. I'm a cat person.