Charlie\u2019s wildly intelligent (har har) and knows quite a bit. I\u2019m excited to teach him more and more because he picks things up incredibly quickly. I taught him \u201cSit\u201d very early on, and he sits before getting treats or toys and before coming in or going out. He knows \u201cCome\u201d and \u201cCome This Way.\u201d I use this often on our hikes \u2013 if I want to change our general direction or if he deviates from our path, I say \u201cCome This Way\u201d and he changes his direction or leaves his scent trail to follow me. Yesterday I said to him, \u201cGet Back On The Deer Trail\u201d (a deer trail is a tiny footpath the deer make when they traverse the hillsides, and we often take these trails on our hikes) and he did \u2013 he returned to the deer trail each time I asked him to. I like to think he knows \u201cDeer Trail\u201d, and \u201cGet Back On It Little Boy;\u201d maybe he does, but maybe he just saw in my eyes what I meant. He also knows \u201cStay\u201d and \u201cDrop It.\u201d Charlie loves to be chased and I quickly learned I would never get my stolen things from him if I chased him. So I ask him to Drop It, and then when he does, I chase him around just for fun, as his reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlie\u2019s wildly intelligent (har har) and knows quite a bit. I\u2019m excited to teach him more and more because he picks things up incredibly quickly. I taught him \u201cSit\u201d very early on, and he sits before getting treats or toys and before coming in or going out. He knows \u201cCome\u201d and \u201cCome This Way.\u201d I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5524,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/5524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailycoyote.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}