シェルターでは、仔犬の方が新しい家族に貰われてく確率が高いんですと。
まあ、可愛いらしいですわな、仔犬って。しかも、「仔犬のうちから躾をしましょう」とか言われると、仔犬からでないと躾られないみたいにも聞こえるし。
くらま氏は、前の飼い主がイマイチ、犬に興味ないのに犬飼さんな人だったらしく、もう、リーシュ(リード)付けて歩くとか、オスワリとかフセのコマンド以前に、元の名前を呼んでも反応しないレベルで何にも躾られてませんでした。
ハウストレーニング(オシッコとウンチ)は、なぜか完璧でしたが、躾られたのか、本人のこだわりなのか微妙なところ。
で、5月1日にうちに来て、健康面で落ち着くのを待って、5月24日から近所の犬の学校に連れて行き始めたんで丁度、二カ月位かな。5歳のおっさん、結構、楽しんどりますわ。
躾のクラスに加えて、トリック(お手とか死んだふりとかベルを鳴らすとかの一発芸)のクラスと、アジリティ(犬の障害物競走、飼い主にもいい運動だぜー)のクラスにも出席してます。
肝心の躾のクラスは、すでにレベル3まで進み、オスワリも出来なかったおっさんが、オスワリして、私が視界から消えても一分以上、じっと待ってられる所まで達しました。
上の写真は、オモチャやオヤツが散らかってても、呼ばれたら真っ直ぐ飼い主の元に飛んで戻る練習。
この表情がたまらん。
因みに、「くらま」と言う名前は、アニマルシェルターから帰る車の中で喧々諤々して決めたんですが、普通に名前を呼んで寄ってきたらオヤツをあげてたら、2、3日で覚えてくれました。
あら、簡単。
It seems like that puppies have more chances of adoptions than adult dogs at animal shelters. Well, indeed they are cute. Moreover, it’s said everywhere that you better train your dogs while they are puppies, which kind of sounds like that it’s difficult to train adult dogs…
Our Mr. Kurama didn’t even react to his original name. Of course, he didn’t know any basic commands like “sit” or “down” at all. His former owner might have been a dog owner who wasn’t instersted in dogs…
Kurama was super house trained but we don’t know if he was taught to be or he just wants to be that way.
Anyway, he came to our home on May 1st and we took care of some health issues first and started to take him to a nearby doggy school on May 24th.
So, it has been roughly two months and this 5-year-old old guy is having a good time there.
We attend not only obedience classes but also trick and agility.
The obedience class is the necessory one for us and he is alredy in the 3rd level, which prepares you for Canine Good Citizen test.
The dog who didn’t know “sit” in May can sit and wait us more than a minute even when we disappear from his sight after only two months of training.
In the picture above, he is practicing to run straight back to us when he is called no matter how attractive toys and treats on the floor are.
I love his facial expression.
We named him “Kurama” in the car leaving from the animal shelter after an unexpected debate. We intended to keep his original name to avoid confusing him though we both didn’t like it, but Kurama didn’t respond it at all. So, we lost the point to keep it.
We didn’t do much training but gave him some treats when he responded to us when we called him “Kurama”. That’s it. It took only two or three days until he learned his new name. Easy.