Dan Dan the Dog Training Man!

I posted about how my dog appears to not like my husband Dan. Anytime Dan walks, stands up, breathes, the dog is barking at him. Cody will only seek affection from Dan when HE wants it. If Dan calls Cody to him, Cody will run the opposite direction and hide behind me.

Well I was talking to my very wise friend Tirzah last night and she told me that it seems like Cody looks to me as being the leader of the pack (damn straight I’m the leader of this pack!) and seems himself as a higher rank than Dan. So I googled that topic last night to see if there was a way to change the rank order so Cody knows that Dan is a higher rank than him. I start to tell Dan about what I found and ways that dogs in a pack show their rank and how humans can establish rank order in their house.

I think everything I said went in one ear and out the other because all of a sudden Dan said “you know, I think I’ll try what the Dog Whisperer does”…um…you watch the Dog Whisperer? Since when? Where was I?

So last night Dan got up to get a drink, right on cue Cody began barking at him. Dan turned around, layed Cody on the ground and gently, but firmly held him down while saying “Do NOT bark at me”. Now I’m sitting there watching my husband and trying not to laugh, singing “I’m the leader of the pack”. But what do you know, Cody didn’t bark at him the rest of the night. Instead he sat there staring at Dan (probably plotting his revenge) with a confused as hell look on his face.