Sunday, August 16, 2009

sorry, I'm a lazy slug

It's not that there are no stories to tell about the Tuggums- I'm just a lazy slug who hasn't logged in lately.

I was walking down an aisle in the home improvement store and saw the wireless door bells. *aha* A lightbulb went off over my head (no, the store wasn't turning out it's lights to save $). Our one last, horrible task with the Tug is to get him to calm down when guests arrive. We've had limited success at getting him to stop jumping on people at different times and it's really up to us to keep up the training for it to work.

So, I get a wireless door bell- see, we live in a 2nd story condo in a gated community where (theoretically) guests have to call in from the front gate. Therefore, no doorbells were installed. Tug hasn't heard one since he moved in at 7 weeks and he's 4 years old. Now, we're training him to go to a certain patch of carpet and SIT. (His little butt hovers over the carpet when he realizes someone's actually at the door but he's momentarily "at attention" and waiting for his treat.) With practice, we hope this saves our guests from a sloppy greeting!