Puppy love nips

Okay, so puppy love equals nips? I am trying very much to teach Kai that she does not need to playfully nip to have fun. She loves to climb on our laps and the minute we start rubbing her tummy or get her a little riled up she starts her love nibbles, unfortunately some of them land on skin so we get a little pinch. TO combat that we push her away, say no and stand up. When she settles down we start again with the cuddling. Sometimes she gets it, other times she loses lap rites.

We now have met several dogs in the neighborhood and she is on board with us passing their houses without pulling my arm out of my socket. I made the mistake of running past a house before I realized that Kai was hearing Joey bark on the inside of the house. Kai associated my running with being scared, so everytime we went past the house she would start running and no matter what I did she did not stop. Now that she has met Joey she is more interested in his smells around his house then running past it, so at least my arm is not pulled out of socket anymore, at least not at that house. She still is not interested in walking past tall men. I had to pick her up today to get her to continue our walk.

The best thing about having a dog is the exercise. I get to lift 18 pounds in a regular basis, run around a yard playing catch me if you can or playing fetch. This is not your usual game of fetch as Kai has trained me to throw the ball, which she does not return but zooms past me hoping for the chase. When I turn to chase her she drops on the ground and pretends to not see me coming up on her, then she jumps up grabs the ball and is on the run again. Every once and awhile she pushes the ball with her nose or paws when she wants me to throw it again, but not once has she dropped it into my open hands.

Here we have a tuckered Kai after playing with her "siblings".