Teaching Odie to wear a Santa Hat!
It took 2.5 minutes to make him comfortable enough to pose for photos 😍
Merry Christmas 🎅🎄
Martin is having problems with his third eyelid on his left eye. We have steroid eyedrops which need to be administered 2-3 times a day. The vet was going to say 3 times and then decided that would stress him out so opted for two times. I don’t do stressed out lol so this is our second training session with the eye drops starting with simple targeting to hold and touch to eye area to administration of the drops. Look how little handling he needs and how engaged he is! There is no need to fight with any animal to do husbandry stuff 😃😍❤️🐈
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I have had to give Odie eardrops for 9 days so far, twice a day. Here is the video of tonights session. I do the same thing each time.
Let that sink in - twice a day for 9 days, and I have to administer these until the pot is empty! And he shows no sign of avoidance and no negative body language. The lip smacks at the start are his response to the yellow treat pot. Yesterday he even came to me when he knew it was eardrop time!
Husbandry at home works! And yet today when I described the process to someone whose dog hates eardrops I was told it was bribery. However you want to look at it isn’t it better to have a dog that couldn’t care less about eardrops, and has a positive experience in the process than a dog that avoids you when you bring the drops out, maybe runs away, certainly has a negative experience.
Why wouldn’t you want an Odie in this video rather than scared and miserable and avoiding you? Especially when the procedure could go on for a week or more. And it’s so easy to take just 2 minutes to make them more comfortable 😊❤️🐾🐾
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