Yet another Hudsonism...
My parents came over, and my mom's best friend, too. Hudson was on leash, and we tried to get him to sit and be calm (they totally ignored him upon entry) but he still jumped up and down and up and down, much like a Jack Russell on uppers...only much bigger. He got a hello from across the room, and then spent an hour in his crate on the other side of the house, so we could eat dinner. After dinner we brought him back, on leash. He flipped, jumped, carried on. (We're so proud...  ) Then, he sat down, calmly. My husband was thrilled. I was suspicious.
Turns out I was right. He backed out of his collar (his head is smaller than his neck, as with all our boys) and RAN for our guest. She was in a chair. He jumped into her lap, laid down perfectly, and was snoring within a minute. No, he wasn't invited. I tried to make him get off, but my mom's friend thought he was adorable and wouldn't hear of it. He slept there while she patted him for the remainder of the night. I don't know how her legs didn't fall off. How does one go from crazy Jack Russell on acid head to sleeping (snoring) dead to the world in less than sixty seconds? |
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Sounds like a "normal" sheepdog to me  |
| What a funny dog you have there. He's so creative, you gotta give him that!
(You probably get lots of advice, so you can just disregard this if you've heard it before) Have you tried keeping him in his kennel when people first come over? We did that with Sunny once and when we let her out about 30 minutes after our guest had arrived, she just went over to him, sniffed his knee, wiggled her wanna-be tail and was generally calm (she usually spun around like a top, while trying to heft herself up into people's arms when they come in). We also noticed that she's calmer for the rest of the visit too, something in her brain is affected when she doesn't do the dosie-do at the door at first. So now we try to anticipate when people come over, and put her in her kennel for BEFORE the doorbell rings (this is key), and we can let her out within about 5 minutes of people coming in now, she's much calmer. But I still like Hudson's antics, he's so entertaining to read stories about.  |
| Gotta love the Hudson stories!!! He never fails to make me laugh with his antics. Tracie, how old is he again? |
| Hudson will be one year old on Sunday, March 15th.
As they say, "Beware the Ides of March." I guess they saw him coming a long time ago! |
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