Another Alfie Tale
posted in Dog Tales |Every night, either I, T, or both of us take Alfie for a short walk around our street before bed. T’s more adventurous than I am and will let him off leash for the short jaunt. Alfie usually stays pretty close, even off leash, but once, when T was walking him alone, Alfie walked ahead farther than usual to explore something laying on the curb around the corner from our condo. He happily bounded back carrying a big slice of pizza in his mouth. (How the pizza got there remains a mystery to this day.)
T tells me he tried the “Leave It” command, which works when we’re training Alfie not to eat the kibble in front of him in exchange for even more kibble, but turned out to be less than effective when trying to talk him out of a big slice of pizza in exchange for nothing. However, after a brief wrestling match, T won and managed to extract the pizza from Alfie’s mouth.
The next night, T and I took Alfie out for his nightly walk together. When we neared the corner that served as the scene of the pizza incident the night before, T noted, “I bet Alfie’s thinking ‘I know a good pizza place around the corner.'”