Sunday, June 04, 2006

An awesome show!

It was our 2nd wedding anniversary but the gifts we received were for the entire family. Actually, it's what we really needed to keep our huskies in check.

Last year, the gifts were traditional; paper. This year, it was not so traditional. My in-laws gave us the entire first season of the "Dog Whisperer". We have heard so much about this show, although we have cable we do not get the Discovery channel where they air the show.

I have read numerous articles about the husky breed, from all those, I gathered that they always have to lead. They are huskies and were born to pull. I never thought the dog whisperer's way will work on huskies; that huskies need a different set of training methods.

We walk our huskies on a retractable leash or a rope to the point that they have us trained. They are suppose to lead, not us. Easing up the walk, means long leash.

According to the dog whisperer, that is all wrong. Basically, we need to retrain our dogs and at the same time, ourselves. We need to let them know that we're the alpha male and female, not them. We must walk the dog on a much shorter leash and with confidence.

Lo and behold, in a week, the pulling has stopped! Well, I'll be!!! By George, they've got it!!!

Finally. Now, we just need to get Layla used to kids.