February 2 - Knows her name

Here is Tari, keeping me company in the kitchen.

We wanted to see if she really knows her name. When I came home from work on Monday I called her and she only lifted her head and with some encouragement from Fred, she came to greet me. On Tuesday night, when I came home, Fred tells me that when I opened the back door, she lifted her head and when I called her she jumped up immediately and came to me. By golly, I think she has it!

Now we have to work on getting her to go in to the crate on command. When we take her to her crate there is a hesitation, but can you blame her? She is really enjoying her freedom. The biggest thing we are careful about is, this is not a place of punishment. We will continue to work with her on this. Eventually we are going to have to wean her from this open crate to a closed crate that we had for our last greyhound. That crate is a little smaller but sometime that gives a dog a more secured feeling. Afterall dogs are den animals. Hopefully will take to the closed crate the way Isis, our last greyhound did.