Jo's Old Site

The other day a pen dropped onto the floor from my computer desk, and I told Ilse my miniature schnauzer “fetch” and as she is an observant dog she immediately started mouthing the pen. I then told her “good girl, good girl, that’s it” and I noticed that she got more determined to pick the thing up.

And when she succeeded, it really put a smile on my face as her ability to pick other things up other than a dumbell reminded me of my first sheltie Deena who had that ability too, but this doesn’t surprise me as Ilsa has so many different types of toys, that I guess she is used to retrieving different objects. Then afterwards, when I got the pen from her I rewarded her with pats and some tidbits.