[hillbilly]

Hi, Carbless.

I must have been composing when you posted your message.

About the dog. He is a black lab and occasionally likes to lay on his back with his legs up in the air. My son and I both laughed when one of us said he looks like a bat dog (ears laying straight out from his head). And the name stuck. There is so much positive reinforcement to that command. The reason I think it works is that we don't say "bad dog". When the occasion warrants it, we just say "Bad". But we don't often get to do that because, with three dogs, there are not many times that we know exactly who did the bad deed. When you start shaking something at them with a stern look on your face and say "Did you do this?", they all look up guiltily!!!

Such fun. They listen better than the kids--most of the time.

Later