>You are absolutely correct. Keep the commands as simple as possible. In fact I think I almost always just say "Drop." She knows what it means. The more extra words I use, the more likely I am to be misunderstood. From everything I have read most dogs want to please their owners. Sometimes they just don't understand what we want.
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>No dogs for you at the moment? You sure sound like you know what you're talking about.

I'm working in San Antonio (in an apartment at the moment) but my dogs (5 of them) and my husband are in Pflugerville, just north of Austin. I'm looking for a place here in SA that I can have a dog and once the contract gets figured out, Valeria will become a road warrior with me.

Amazingly enough, we couldn't find a place that would rent to someone with 5 dogs - if we'd had 5 kids, no one would have batted an eye, and kids are FAR more destructive than dogs.