Cody Personal Curriculum Lesson 3: Distractions at the workplace

Since Cody did not come to work very often last week, we started this lesson this week.

Specifically, it's about behaving properly in the work place. Normally, he jets to find his friend Miya, or up the stairs, or jumps on new visitors. We are working on limiting the jumping (though it's hard to enforce since my colleagues have to not reward him when he jumps to say hi) as well as heeling to exciting places.

Today, we walked to the main part of campus. Cody loves main campus because we have a big cafe (good smells) and there are more people and dogs to play with. It's hard to get him to heel and be good, but we practiced that today. By tiring him out a little bit on the walk over to main campus, it was a little easier.

While on main campus, he played with a new boxer friend named Bodi. Amazingly enough, when he played with Miya and Bodi, Cody was more mellow than these two. Bodi and Miya could barely contain themselves to play with Cody. It may have been that Cody was more exercised today than those two were, but it was nice to see this switch for a change. While Cody is not always mellow, it's nice to see that he can be mellow as well (especially when there are excited dogs around him).