Ollie and I worked on spot tonight! I’m a little rusty with the littles because we haven’t had one in the house in a bit and it showed in this video but I got it together eventually! 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️ Things I would change after watching the video back: 1. I forgot to block the spot with my foot 🤦🏼‍♀️ 2. I kept going in front of the camera so you couldn’t see Ollie lol 3. Could’ve probably lined him up better a few times 4. I wasn’t sure what command to use to get him off the spot so I just kinda encouraged him off of it? What should I be using? 5. I didn’t lure as much as I probably should have, and didn’t always have treats immediately in hand so I had to fish for them. My treat pouch fell off at work today and is MIA so plastic bag in the pocket was tonight’s solution 🤦🏼‍♀️ Things that went well: 1. Once he figured out the game, he was ALL about it - when he saw me putting the Zuke’s and food in a plastic bag he got SO excited and was trying to get to me from on the lanai with my dad 🤣 He really CAN do anything through Zuke’s hahaha 2. He listened to other obedience pretty well and chilled out when I had him sit to get him back to listening instead of “oh my gosh FOOD!!” mode 3. He had lots of good 2 front feet on the spot! Bonus win for Atlas: He stayed in a down & stay the whole time I was training Ollie and didn’t try to come interrupt or show off lol

Okay this one got me 😂 The whisker violin challenge is so dumb… and I love it. Volume up! Had to try it with Grizz and it absolutely delivered (aka did nothing!) 👇 Drop your silly, pointless dog (or any animal) videos below — let’s get a thread going and give everyone a reason to laugh this weekend 🐾

We took Saffy to EPCOT for the first time this afternoon. We decided since there were not a lot of people waiting that we would ride the tram in. She was verrryy reluctant to get on at first. I tried treats and she put on the breaks. So I went to a heel and saw that the tram cast member was VERY kindly holding a door open which made it easier for me to walk with her in a heel and tap, tap, tap the button. When we made it to the car, I told her up and she went right on! She got super praise and treats!! She did remarkably well for her 1st ride. I tried to keep her in a down so I had to stop videoing to correct with the remote. I was holding the handle on her vest, because I wasn’t sure what she would do. After we went through security, we had some free dog time with her toy. Before I got my phone out she was ‘running’ around with it🥹. We realized we forgot to make a potty stop before security so that was next. We found our favorite chill out space and just sat and watched the wildlife and people. She did really good staying on her place ‘mat’. She was way calmer than we thought she would be for her fist trip! After a while, we walked over to the designated SD relief area and took care of that and had some free dog time! We even went into the main store! She did so well!! We did find out that she wants to chase/ play with field mice!🐭 But she responded to a leave it and heel once we figured out what was going on.😂. She did ignore the squirrels, bunnies, big fat bubble bee and birds! So SUPER duper proud of her and us too! Dad was having a really bad anxiety day and Saffy helped! Dad was on a scooter because he injured his ankle. With the ankle injury and the heightened anxiety, I handled Saffy but had her right next to him as much as possible.

The other day at work, I spent 2 hours using our Cameo Silhouette (similar to a Cricuit) to cut bees for our spring decor! Atlas hungout in an “under” while I worked and the machine was loud above him. This wasn’t his first time (we’ve used this machine for the better part of our 3 years at our job) but it was the first time I decided to video it! He’s always so quiet and calm around it. I have never seen him care about it!

Tried our hand at the eye contact game tonight! He was SO good at it because this dude is LOCKED IN on his girl (me, lol) at all times. In the first video I struggled to hold his bowl and the camera so just ignore the clumsiness and me talking to myself 😂. I didn’t think to set the bowl down and just take a few pieces of food out 🤪🤦🏼‍♀️. He did great which is why I’m still sharing that one. Second time he got up from his place so I redirected him back and he did that immediately!