Sunday, June 7, 2009

Ashoka

By popular demand, from Patrick, here are some pictures of Ashoka. He is well-trained now, receiving three lessons a week from Rehan. It's great, he can sit and stay and heel.

Here he is in "stay" mode. I like to increase the challenge by putting a chicken sausage on the ground in front of him and ensuring he doesn't break "stay".

I remember when I was young that the bad guy from James Bond movie "Moonraker" had dogs that would sit in front of steaks until told to eat. That's the level of discipline that I am trying to produce with Ashoka.



"Stay".



^ Straining under the discipline..... notice the sausage on the ground in front of him.



^ It looks like the discipline is straining him greatly in this one.

He's a good dog, but not above his street dog impulses. We'll see how it goes going forth over the next several months.

For the record, he got two sausages for his discipline.