Toto @ Play...

I find it so funny when he get so excited over a kibble, ice or a piece of frozen carrot and I wonder what is in a dog's world! They are so easily satisfied ...

Sometimes I lost myself looking at him play by himself and it will often bring a smile to my face ...

Just a lil update!

We are very relax with his Potty issue now.

But still he needs REMINDER to go pee pee, but at least he don't leak around anymore.

YIPEE ~~ Now the problems is sometimes he think that as long as he has TWO paws on the Nugi Pad and he is ALRIGHT... Hahaha, when that happen, we don't know should we scold him OR NOT! *Headache* ...

We are trying to leave him alone at home more and so we are getting another Nugi Pad for him to use in another area. IF he ESCAPE from his pen, hopefully we place another Nugi in the kitchen, and he knows he have to walk over to NUGI to POTTY when we are not around.

The next thing we are trying to do is to make him like his crate, so far he doesn't and he don't walk into the crate to sleep  by himself. He loves to sleep ON YQ's slipper, so we tried to place our slippers right out of his crate, hahaha. Nope, didn't succeed! He will entertain and sleep a while inside because we ask him to! And after awhile he will just walk out ...

I prefer that he sleep in crate during the day because only when he is inside the crate, he sleeps better and longer without distraction. C'mon Toto, loves the crate. I promise I won't lock it while you are sleeping if you walk in by yourself!

Bought some discounted Tees and a cape for him! When he ROLL on the grass, I won't be that PISSED! Hahaha stupid dog, keep rolling himself on the grass! Dogs tee are so ex, I have to DIG around clearance bins for more Tees for Toto now! But I got all these for USD13+ in Petsmart, yeah!

Training progress @ 13 weeks!

Toto is having his DIVA day! He seems tired, moody and disinterested  and VERY DISTRACTED! So there is alot more I want to show but cannot. He doesn't want to do much. Nevermind, will show it all next week! But this week, he supposedly learn the hand sign of Sit and Down, YQ is very proud of it, hahaha ...

Revision with this week new stunt; Beg and Bow ...

We will be getting the 101 Dog tricks more soon!

We are OUT OF IDEA what to teach him, hahaha!

Most of the tricks are search from ONLINE, so hopefully with a new book, he has more to show ...

Sat outing ...

Today, again a lady commented that 'He is a advertisement dog.'
Hahahaha, I wish!

We knew that we will be going out tonight so we make sure he slept early the night before and woke up early for his training and feeding and force him to sleep after his feed to bring him out, so that he can enjoy his day better! So he is bright and cheery today!

Off to a Local Farmer's Market, White Rock Local Market, PET FRIENDLY! ...

And gotten him some local freshly baked biscuit, he loves it!

Off to our 2nd Destination ...

He fell asleep in the moving car again, AS USUAL!

Haiyo, where got dog sleep LIKE THAT!!

SO UGLY, Where is your manners??

COVER UP!!!

Off to Downtown Mckinney, Pet Friendly area as well with lots of Outdoor Restaurant! But the SUN is shining too brightly FOR Me to stay outdoor for too long! I HATE the SUN!

Toto's reaction," Arrrcggggkkkk don't KISS me! I am not your PRINCE! "

Toto :" Bark bark ..., GO AWAY froggie !!"

Me : " Toto, be nice ..."

Toto ... FAKE SMILE!

Toto prefer DOG to FROG!

Toto gets LOTS, REALLY LOTS of compliment from man, woman, girls, boys and babies, from 2yrs old to 80yrs old!! Even people whom had westies before would comment that we had a really PRETTY westie! 

Anyone OUT there want to give Toto a advertisement deal!?????

@13 Weeks ...

His schedule is getting easier for us.
He now can hold his pee and poop better and is pooping at very regular interval; once in the morning, before dinner and once before he sleep at about 9pm!

He can sort of Pee on command, he is unusually distracted when he needs to pee so when we see that and ask him to go peepee, usually he will do so. There are times when he go himself, but sometimes when he start sniffing about at other area, we'll get paranoid and quickly ask him go peepee on his Nugi pad, hahaha! AND sometime, when we command him to pee, he will pee abit just to make us happy!!

And sometimes, he is SO CLEVER, when he get scolding for peeing at the wrong place, he will POOP at the right place to UNDO the first scolding!!! We are really OUT-WITTED by him!

But we realise as long as the weather is good, he will be VERY relax and happy the whole day; if the weather get too warm, he gets very grouchy and get easily irritated!! Even pee and pooped EVERYWHERE, doesn't even care when he get scolding, hmmmmffffppphh!

SO WEATHER plays a important factor on his potty training, and even his 'TRAINING'. When the weather is cold and cooling, he trains better and is more willing to do his trick well!

This pile of 'GOLD' here is momentous for us, because we are trying to shift his Nugi out of his comfort zone to test whether he will use it outside, and he did it ON HIS OWN, without us nudging him!!

I only play tug and war with him if he uses Moo moo ~

He always like to 'emo' in the Patio, but I LOVE it because that will be his OWN PRIVATE TIME!!

And I will have time to update my blog, hahaha!!!

What is really ON HIS MIND?

Is he happy living with us!?

Toto love pretty woman!!

Lunch at a sandwich cafe with Toto and something in the restaurant behind us is HOLDING his attention ...

GUESS what!?

Yeah, SEXY waitress, hahaha ~

Like daddy , like doggy!

How can I trust the 2 of them to go OUT together!!

Hmmmphhh, he is HELPING his daddy to FISH woman from SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO far!

Training progress @ 12 weeks!

We are getting lazy and training him less and less, but partly also because we want him to have time to eat alone. We realised that he don't have that habit and when he eat alone he usually is very distracted. So now we trained him less and let him learn to eat alone in peace. Seriously, he preferred us training him!

And like a small kid, if he is not often praised, he will get bored. Or if he took too long to get the trick right, he get angry and walk away! So the KEY, is lots and lots of praise! If he cannot get a particular trick right, change to a simple trick and gives lots of praises and do the new trick again! They need lots of praises, loves and petpet to have confidence!

More to come next week ...

P/S: We know his 'action' are not as sharp, please note we did not recieved any proper training before, and this is the first time we try our hand on training a dog! And we are already very happy with what he can do as a 12 week old puppy ...