Posted by Estella on August 4, 2006, at 20:13:47
In reply to Re: Anyone Know anthing about raising a 3lb pup? » Estella, posted by Phillipa on August 4, 2006, at 19:50:37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Collie
Chloe was particularly neurotic though I spent a lot of time with her training her for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_agility
Which is kinda (sorta) like showjumping for dogs...
Also had a male I named after William Blake. He wasn't as smart but he was from obedience lines rather than hearding lines. Made a world of difference temperament wise.
Chloe learned about 100 words...
I was trying to teach her some kind of basic syntax just to show my philosophy of language lecturer to be wrong...'find ball outside'
She was addicted to playing with her ball and she knew a variety of objects that she could find... But outside... was more a place you were sent when you were bad... she would look excited that i was asking her to find ball because find ball really meant something more like 'lets play ball!' i guess... the outside bit confused her though. She would hang her head and sneak off outside... Eventually she got it a little bit... But not really...
Guess Chomsky was right sigh.
;-)
In the end... Both dogs went to live with my previous partner out on a 2acre fully fenced section. Much better for them. Long time ago now (8 years ago or something). Don't even know that Chloe would recognise me now. Saw her a couple years after and she seemed to have forgotten. That was really hard. Really hard. But she is better off now...
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