First I got Cleo dressed by getting her "gentle leader" over her nose first, then tethering the leash to her, finally putting her vest on. Obviously this task dos not go in proper order. It should have been gentle leader, vest, then leash so that way her leash was hanging from her nose instead of caught under her vest all day. Towards the end of day someone's husband corrected me and it will hopefully not happen again!
My body is wired as my left hand is stronger but I am right handed. At first Cleo was tethered to my chair on the right side where my control panel is, so we are thinking on moving it to the left side. We will see if that gives me better over Cleo.
But, something truly awesome occurred today! During a lecture Cleo sat up and locked eyes with me. When I told her to lye "down" and after a few seconds she would sit back up and stare at me intensely. A few minutes later I realized my head hurt really badly. As crazy as it sounds, I think she was alerting me to my pain! If that's an extra skill she knows, that would be pretty nice.
The commands for dinner are "sit", "wait" as you set their bowl down, "look at me", and then once they look at you "all done to commence eating. When I fed Cleo tonight I told her to look at me one too many times (because I couldn't see if she was looking at me) so she got her food taken away. I got told if her nose is pointed towards me she is looking at me. Once I repeated the routine of commands she wouldn't eat for the reason of her food getting taken away before. She ate, though, and all went well!
I hope Cleo and I grow a partnership that can not be torn down. A partnership is a bond that needs mutual love and commitment. We will need to love each other and watch each other's backs. The definition is a realationship between two, but this will go much, much deeper than that!
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