Here is my baby with Icy at her mercy. I am so not kidding when I say that I would recommend her to teach karate classes.

She is very sensitive to restraint, a gentle pull on Sumi's collar sends her into a frenzy of "get away from the monster that is going to eat me!!" so I still haven't figured out how to get her to be okay on a leash, she doesn't mind having it on, as long as I'm the one following her.

She loves shoes, but only because Icy taught her how, now they play tug o war with those inexpensive chinese slippers we have lying around the house. I'm teaching her not to bite them through the following method: Pulling her gently by the collar, when she knows she did something wrong, she will go into SUPER SHIBA SCREAM mode the moment I try tugging her into my lap. Why? I don't really know. How? I have no idea how her voice box can be strained to make that high pitched of a sound.
Putting her into my lap and telling her firmly while showing her the shoes and speaking one level above her screaming, and explaining that the slippers are not for widdle fluffmunchkin pookie pie because they are for human feetsies.
But she REALLY gets the idea when I start smacking myself over the head with the slipper. Yes, I kid you not, I slap myself over the head with the slipper and with each slap to myself, she lets out a horrified howl. She seems to think the slipper is killing me and therefore should not be trifled with. When I finally defeat the evil slipper from hell, she runs over relieved and starts trying to induce me to play with her just to make sure I'm alive. She doesn't really go near the slippers anymore, but my dad's leather shoes and my mom's boots are fair game. I don't think I'm that suicidal yet so I haven't really slapped myself with the boots.
Otherwise, she is extrmely well behaved and knows how to give "paw" which isn't really a result me training her, more like she trains me to shake her paws each time she lifts those cute teeny feet up into the air. I am a very good student. She still wakes me up the same way every day, not that I mind, she keeps me on time for school. So... that's all the updates for now, if anything else interesting happens, you'll be the first to know.

By the way, I am still sleeping in the crate.

see Josie's other entries, including the ones of her other, other, other dog, meatball, here...

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