Johanna Speaks

So recently I have been walking a dog for a neighbor across the street because their dog is always barking and never gets walked so I asked if I could walk her and they said yes that would be great! So about everyday I go over to the owners house around lunch time and walk the dog for them. 😊 I enjoy it very much! I even take off the owners leash and but on my Cesar Milan leash because that gives me more control over the dog and plus the owners leash is pretty loose on the dog anyways. 

The type of breed of the dog is a Boston Terrier. I noticed that Domino ( the Boston Terrier ) seemed smaller than the actual breed. And even has two different color eyes! One is blue and the other is brown. It looks cool. I don't love small dogs but I'm ok with them. I would much rather have a way bigger dog though.🙂 But I do like to know more about smaller breeds and I love walking dogs so it's a win win.  

It was easy walking Domino but she is interested in everything. But I say "tch" and tug on the leash for a sec so she knows that's something she can't do. And yesterday when I was walking her, she stayed right by me and never went in front or on the side of the road to smell something. 😃 I think she learned that I was leader and that she was a follower. I almost wanted to drop the leash because she was just trotting along and stayed by me and I didn't even need to tug once! I pretended I dropped the leash on her by putting a lot of it on her but she still stayed by me!! I was just so happy! I even handed the leash to Sophie! But after about 3 mins she started to go ahead of Sophie so I stepped in and got her back into her place. Sophie said " Jo how do you keep her behind you?? She goes in front of me when I have the leash! But not with you! " I just smiled at her. 😌 It's hard to explain things sometime. Which that time it was. 

And one time I was passing a house which had a front yard with a gate and there was a much bigger dog than Domino and that dog was going crazy, barking, whining, jumping up on the gate wanting to go to us. And then Domino started to act up and twirled and jumped. So I corrected her and she stopped! So whenever she put her ears up that meant she was alert and about to go into action. So I wanted to stop that from happening so I barley tugged at the leash for a sec and said, "tch". And if that didn't work I would use my leg and bump her on the side and what that does is distract her mind and look at what had touched her. So after that whenever she started to put her ears up in alertness I would do those things and she stopped and kept walking. And so I kept walking back and forth in front of the barking dog. And she now was calm and didn't care about the other dog. 

Sophie asked me " Joey why are you going towards the dog that's barking? You want Domino to go crazy?" And I said well yes and no. I do want Domino to go crazy so I can correct her. So then she learns that's something she doesn't need to get worked up about.  And in general I don't want her to go crazy. I wouldn't want any dog too about another dog. 

Domino was always making pig noises! Like snorting and stuff like that. So I searched it up and it's called a reverse sneeze. So it's basically a irritation in the dogs throat and it could be that they have allergies or just from eating food. And apparently it's not harmful thank goodness. I'm guessing it might be allergies because I also have allergies from the pollen and always sneeze and have runny noses. I'm probably so wrong though about that.😂

Meet Domino!!

So today I will be talking about this episode and I will write my notes that I took. And also explain how to do some of this stuff he shows in this video. 

First here is the video:

So Cesar Milan is in San Diego. And this husband and pregnant wife ( named Charlie and Shantel Limbo) needs help with their six month old German Shepherd named Malik. 

Here are the problems they have with this dog: 

1. Pulling on leash and wife scared that she will get pulled down to the ground one of these days while she is really pregnant. 

2. Doesn't have any boundaries set for the dog. So the dog would be all over the owners or eat food that the owners have on their plates. 

So Cesar met up with this couple at their house and discussed the problems with the dog. 

So he was going to fix the food problem first. ( which is eating the food off the people's plates and getting in their faces)

So first you would want to get a plate full of food and put it on the ground. Then call the dog to you and have him smell the food so he would want to straight away eat it. But when he gets super close to the food like he's going to eat it, you say " Tshh!" and touch him on the side of the neck so he backs away a bit. Then when he tries again you do the same thing. It's going to probably take a long time but just be patient. And have calm, confidence and love while doing it. The dog will also bark in protest and try to paw at it. But remember to be patient. And after a bit, he will know that that's something he can't have and surrender to the food. 

You can also try doing the same thing if he's trying to get into your face or something ( without the food of course). 

So Cesar fixed that problem and now wanted to fix the dog pulling problem. 

So Cesar and the couple went outside with the dog. And Cesar put on one of his training leash's and first walked the dog and showed the couple how to walk him. Then he gave the leash to the woman and she started to walk him. But the fear of the dog pulling her down came into her head and then the dog was getting ahead of her again. So Cesar told her not to worry and to have calm and confidence while walking the dog and always be ahead of the dog because if your not ahead of the dog, you are becoming the follower and not the leader. And the dog knows that he is the leader and not his owner and start pulling her around. So then she walked with calm and confidence and made sure that she was the leader and not the dog. And it was working!! She was so happy that she wasn't being pulled anymore and could walk her dog in peace. 

So what did we learn? Well we learned that we shouldn't let the dog walk ahead of us and think that he's the leader. And when we walk with calm and confidence what do we get? Well the dog responds with a different energy. He reacts with a calm energy. So if our energy is excitement, the dog will be excited. And that's not what we want. 

If our dog starts to bark in fear and whine at somebody, what would you do? Would you start to say " it's ok. " and start to give it pats and cuddle it? NO! You defiantly do not want to do that at all! It's like if you had a 8 year old child and he/she started to cry and whine at somebody because it's mad or something, would you give your child hugs and say it's ok when he/she is being naughty? You would give him/her discipline. And say that something we don't do around here. Same thing with a dog. If you had given the dog cuddles and love when he's being naughty your actually saying to your dog, " good boy for doing a bad thing!" And then the dog will realize if he keeps doing bad things he would be rewarded for it. And that's how you get bad behavior. 

So recently Sophie and I have been going across the street to a lady's house who has a dog that is fourteen years old! And in dog years that's about 98 years old!!!😐 And it's a big dog too! She thinks its part German Shepherd and mixed with something else. And the dog's name is Champ. 

So we know the lady because of our cousins and aunt. So awhile ago ( when we still lived in the other house ) our cousins and aunt visited us and they knew a lady who lived near by our street ( which is now the street we live on ) and so we all visited her and went on walks with her and the dog Champ and got to know her more. And recently our cousins visited us like last week and haven't seen her in so long so we all went over there and said hi and my mom started talking to her about how I really want a dog and also want to walk them and stuff like that and the lady said Sophie and I are welcome to come over and see her dog Champ. And plus I might even be babysitting the dog one of these days. Depends how long Champ will live since he's pretty old. 

So that's the back story on how we know the lady. And now that we have been seeing her a lot, we have been getting to know her really well. And now Sophie and I usually go over there everyday around 5:00 PM and hang out with her dog and chat a bit too. 

My mom just wants to make sure before we get a dog or anything, just that I am around them a lot and have more knowledge about puppies or dogs and raising them and trying to train them too. And right know I have been reading a book called, " The Art Of Raising A Puppy". And I have also been watching a lot of Cesar Milan videos too. 

I just hope some day I will be able to get a dog!😌

So I have watched all of Cesar Millan's videos and have been aching to get a dog!! There are just some problems with me getting a puppy right now. 

My mom wants to make sure it's not going to be an inside dog and sleep in my bed or anything because then we would have so much hair in our house which is bad because we have a lotion business and the last thing we want is to have hair in the lotion. 😐 And she knows we are not going to keep that promise. But I said that we can like put a sign up or something that says all the rules about the dog and then everybody would have to be very strict on it. Soooo I'm just hoping that we will be able to do that and GET a dog!!

Here are the reasons why I want a dog:

1. To have a fun pet companion.

2. To go and take hikes or walks with it.

3. Teach it tricks or discipline. 

4. Plus I have always wanted to be a dog trainer.

5. To set boundaries and limitations with the house or outside. And help it to know what I want it to do. 

6. And if I work with my own dog first and teach it tricks and sit and not to bark etc. I would then be able to work with other different dogs.

And there are probably plenty more reasons why I want a dog but I can't think of it right now. 😊

I have also been taking notes from watching and reading Cesar Millan's YouTube videos and books. Here are pics of what I wrote based off of the vids and books I have seen. And don't judge my hand writing! I know it's bad!

So I recently wanted to get back into drawing so I went on my computer and opened the app Krita and got started on drawing a random face. A girl face. It went ok. It didn't really look that good but I was proud of myself! I took a picture of it and then accidently it deleted the girl's face!! 😐 I was very sad. But I had at least a picture on my phone of her. 

So then a day after I drew another girl's face but this time I looked up faces on the web because I wanted to see how people drew their eyes and hair. So I tried to draw it like theirs and after I was finished it didn't really look like it but it still looked pretty great! I took a picture when it was just a sketch, and then after I put color into it. 

After that drawing I wanted to draw another face and I thought maybe of doing something else like a guys face but when I tried doing it, it was pretty hard so then I went back to drawing another girl face and that went great actually! 

Here are the pics of the girl drawings:

I also tried to do some animation on there too which they also had so I tried that! I first watched a video on how to do it of course then I tried. I actually had a lot of fun doing it! It takes a long time to do it but it looks great! Here is a video!!!