Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for June 26, 2020
June 25, 2020
June 27, 2020
Transcript:
Irving: We've spent years training our dogs, mom! We will NOT have you undo all our hard work in a week! Mrs. Hillman: You've spent years training these dogs?? Cathy: ...Ok. We spent MONTHS training the dogs! We won't have you undo it in a week! Mrs. Hillman: Months?? Really?? This represents months of training? Irving and Cathy: ...Ok. We own books, DVDs and we TiVo "The Dog Whisperer" and we plan to start real program as soon as we're caught up on stuff! Mrs. Hillman: We're not so much spoiling the dogs as spoiling the delusions.
I have a real problem with untrained dogs…we have several friends who allow their dog to jump all over anyone coming in the door. Needless to say, I don’t do it often and if I do go to their homes, I wear grubby clothes. I love dogs, but I’m allergic to them, and I don’t want them to jump on me or slobber on me. They totally do not get it and the only thing they can think of to do is lock the dog up in a room in the house, so he howls the whole time I’m there. I actually did run into him in a hallway alone one time and I told him gently that if he sat down, I would pet him. He sat right down, I petted him and he didn’t jump or lick me. This is after the usual greeting at the door with the dog jumping and slobbering all over everyone who showed up. So he is easily trainable, they just don’t bother.