dog sick, ricky sick

Ricky's sick. He didn't eat anything during the last 24 hours. He rejected all of his favorites, including beef!
Luckily, he took some milk, how fun. I served him milk, steering milk with water, hot, and he just bottomed up
He looks fine today when I came home, jumping as usual but still not eat food.
My sister said, her dogs are in the same situation once per month, and other dogs would be the same. They don't eat food in some certain days? i don't know, I have to check it out with my friend, who has 2 big dogs, some German breed dogs.

Pet Product Demonstrator

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Pet Product Demonstrator/Trainer

The candidate will: Conduct in-store demonstrations for a private label pet food company at retail store level. Develop network infrastructure with both store management and staff. Train store personnel on company's products. Maintain product presence at store level, report and track activities at store level. Communicate the learned private label company's product message and relay it to potential customers and store personnel. Represent all parties in a professional manner and work within the limits of the project budget. Attend training (will involve company reimbursed travel). Responsibilities include reporting inventories, out of stocks, product issues or problems and also merchandising to include rotating stock, stocking shelves, filling product samples, and facing product. Build relationships with store personnel to increase store associate recommendations. Train and educate store personnel on products at store level by conducting product knowledge and information training sessions. Be responsible for coordinating training sessions with store managers and arranging all training sessions, including presentations and materials necessary to complete the training.

Other Requirements: Minimum of a high school graduate required with trade show, retail sales, direct sales experience or an Associate degree in a related field preferred. Must have excellent communication and sales skills, be energetic, enthusiastic, personable, confident, available to work weekends and willing to travel. Must have a clean driving record. Previous sales and training experience preferred at http://www.resumepromo.com

The Stay Command

I thought this training session would be a hard time. And I am right. Dogs never want to stay still and doing nothing. That’s not their usual behaviours, they have to run, jump and bark, all their normal activities. Tell them to “Stay“? You know how they commanded dogs to stay? Well, just simply saying “stay”, that’s simple, I thought. But this is how I’ve done.

Using a training lease as usual, walking the dog then stop, make sure the dog sit on my left, I release the leash, before I walk away, I say “Stay” and move my left hand to in front of his face, quick and firm as if I am hitting him, at the same time. Then I turn away, walking about 3 or 5 mettres away, often turning back to give the command to make sure he still stay. I repeated that often, the next is longer walk than the previous.

The man who received award for this training session had walked away for 50 mettres away from his dog. So I know that it ’s hard but it can be done.

The "Heel" Command

Anytime I want Ricky to stay by my side, I say “Heel“.

I learned this from the animal planet channel either. The trainer says to his dog “heel” and tapping hand over his left leg at the same time, then the dog comes to the left side of the trainer. Amazing, isn’t it?

I first started the lesson with a leash around this neck, the type people use for dog training. At first, Ricky tended to run around and distracted. I have to be patient and gently to make him understand this command. Of course, to be successful with this heel command, I have to use an appropriate leash, like the one I see on dog training programs. Applying appropriate control and movement from my left hand. He gradually understand what I wanted from him.

"Down" command

Ask your dog to lie “down” on the ground. I have my dog standing in front of me, face to face, using a training leash as usual, I firstly say Sit, then Ricky sits, then I follow with a “down” command, by doing this, I say “down”, and I pull down his front legs gently, of course, I did this when he ’s already in a sit position. Then he lie down there in front of me, I repeated this lesson, until he’s “down” with a command alone, without me touching on his legs.

Actually, it’s not this easy, I had a hard time for a week and it did not work. Until I did it with a different approach, and that is SIT first then Down after, that’s an easier flow of process for Ricky to understand.

the SIT command

Dog Training - The "Sit" Command

On the early days, one of the basic training is to make sure my dog understand the SIT command, any time I say “sit” then he should understand what’s required from him. The tone, the gesture I show whenever I say sit should be consistent. I first started off by saying sit and pressing him gently over his back. The lesson started for a couple of times then finish.

Later in that day, I repeated the lesson couple of times more whenever suitable occasions incurred. Especially when I prepared to feed him, I told him to sit before feeding him and I never feed him if he rejected the command. I did it just consistently. I do the same when I come home.

He would easily forget what’s being taught, so I have to make sure that he’s consistently trained and monitored.

Couple of days after

Couple of days after, when he gets used to the surroundings, and seems that his instinct (if I can say so) was awaken, he started to run around, chewing things, making a lot of noise. And that’s when we become friends.
He tends to run around me, just like he wanted to say, “hey, play with me, that human being”. Sometimes I played with him, other times I just ignored him. To let him know that ok, I will be his friend, but don’t ever try to fool me! See?

First day at home

First day at home

I don’t actually like dogs, I am afraid of responsibility, I ‘m even afraid of dogs. One day, my brother brought home a little dog, a male, 1 month old. He’s very timid at first, even when I feed him with fresh milk, he just turn away from me. He did not make a noise, totally quiet. I decided to name him Ricky, sounds like rich & lucky, how fun!

But he’s cute!

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