Sending my best wishes for a smooth delivery and for your baby Camryn to be healthy. Everytime I see that name in a post, I think of my DGD Camryn who is 16 mos. old now. We get to see her in the next two days. Warmest regards, Leslie/KS

Our pup and their pup grew up together. He's either one month younger or older than mine, I can't remember. Everytime they came over when they were young, and mind had new tricks and could stay/sit/down etc all they'd say is "Ohh, I wish we had the time and etc etc to teach him all of that, but it's just been so hectic, and I've been so sick/tired (with the pregnancy)" And I think he just kind of got lost in the pregnancy, and newborn stuff. I think I'll just start in on it, because he's already picking it up on his own, and I'm having a hard time resisting the urge to enforce stay, and down when he takes off and gets mud all over my couch! If they mind I'll just say that while he's at my house, for extended periods - It'd be easier for me and for him, if he had the same rules as my dogs. My dogs pick up on it, too, when he gets away with stuff they know they aren't allowed to do, and they start to misbehave. My dog will start to come when she's called, and when she sees he's taken off the other way, she follows him. Or she'll run inside and not sit and stay at the door like she's been taught etc etc. They already say he's not trained well, and he doesn't listen well to them at all, even at their house. I'm over there quite often. They kinda just let him run rampant. On the furniture, jumping on things,etc. He kinda rules the roost. The tell him to get down, or come, or lay down etc. But he doesn't know the commands well enough to know what to do. So hopefully if I do work with him, they'll continue with it, they try..I just don't think they realise it takes more than a couple of cookies to teach a dog something and have him be consistent. Just thought I'd ask before I tried, to see what the general consensus is from other dog owners. Thanks for the replies :)

I have to laugh because SO's grandson, when he was a toddler used to keep trying to go inside my fake fireplace. It had no grate or even flu or chimney, just a wire curtain and a tile surround. I took the candles out when he visited so he wouldn't break them. He kept trying to go in there, like it was his private little "fort"/cubbie. We were afraid he would hit his head! Then he took to putting his stuffed animals in there, closing the wire curtain and then saying they were in jail!

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