Four hungry dogs makes for great training opportunity!

Dearest Todd:  despite your expressed frustration, your reservations, your complete and total assurance that if YOU didn't understand what it was that somebody wanted while standing quietly holding a clicker and food....YOUR dog wouldn't understand it either.  Well, you're wrong.  Your dog, it appears, is absolutely, positively capable of being clicker trained.  In fact, he offered three brand new behaviors today, stayed in the game for fifteen minutes and really gave some of this thought.  Bona fide, standing still, thinking about what might earn the next treat THOUGHT.  Butley has learned that static is boring and dynamic is exciting.  And dynamic earns food.  Not only that, but he can determine when he gets fed by actually offering new behaviors....Butley NOW CONTROLS PART OF THE GAME.  An exciting thing....to the degree that Butley knows how to express that he is excited by all of this.

So, with glee, I am enjoying "Project Dog."  It is giving me a break from writing papers for law school.  It is allowing me to passively ignore other more pressing and important issues and deadlines.  It is also reinforcing that dogs are much, much, much easier to train than their owners.  

Thanks for sharing Butley :)