July 2000. Mistress has now teached me to bark on her command. She was a little worried because I am always so quiet and almost never barks. At the Activity course we participate in the instructor said that it is possible to TEACH a dog to bark on command, and it is also an exercise in the higher levels of obedience contests. So my mistress started when we got home.... guess what she did hahahaha.

She took a LARGE sausage and held in front of me and at the same time she told me to SIT. I was furious and jumped and jumped and did all the things I have learned.... sit, stay, lay down, stand, etc but nothing helped. She refused to give me the delicious sausage.

I didn't understand what she wanted me to do. She just stood there saying "skall"... Skall means "bark" in Swedish language and it took me about 30 minutes to find that out.... but after that I happily barked when she said "skall". Well, I did bark anyway because the sausage was SOOOOO delicious. voff, voff