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| All of my mutt Daisy, Spec and Tigger |
It is funny how dogs catch on to our daily habits as
humans. I am a very routine person and
so are all three of my dogs. I wake
close to the same time even on my days off and I go to bed around the same time
each night. My dogs are ready to get up
around the same time each day. My morning routine is pretty normal every single
day. My dogs get fed on a pretty ridged
schedule. They get walked or ran everyday.
Rarely does a day go by that they do not have some form of
exercise. Even with exercise I have a
routine that I go through before the walk or run them. It starts with putting on my shoes which
doesn’t’ always produce excitement in my dogs. I am a personal trainer so I
wear running shoes everyday to work. The
smartest dog of my bunch is named Daisy and she doesn’t miss a beat. Putting my shoes on gets her attention but
she is not sure if that means we are going for a walk or run, both of which I
don’t dare say. We refer to it as as R or W around my house because saying the
word will produce mayhem. These steps increase
the excitement of the dogs as I go through each of them:
· Putting on my shoes
· Going to the pantry to get my 2 squares of gum out of
the gum cup
· Going to the bag drawer to get my poop bag
· Putting on sunglasses and/or sunscreen
· Getting the leashes – this sets them over the top with
excitement
