Why We’ll Never Invite Cesar Over for Tea

When it comes to dog training, it’s hard to top the masters: Barbara Woodhouse, Cesar Millan, and the Monks of New Skete. But when we got Xander, we hadn’t heard of these guys, and really, for Xander, we didn’t need them.

We had friends who used the methods, kept their puppies strapped to them with a leash for weeks on end until the dog learned to follow their every move and accept them as alpha. I thought they were a little nuts. After all, these were domesticated dogs, not some cub right out of the wolf pack. Don’t they have a natural inclination to please humans?

Uh no. I take it all back now. I was wrong. Get lazy with the dog training and this is what you get:

Sure, this looks cute, until you sit on one of these chairs while wearing black pants.

Yes, that's our (unmade) bed. Clearly dog training isn't the only area of laziness around here.

Why sneak around and eat those slippers when everyone's asleep when you can start chewing on the strings right now?



Husband sometimes teaches classes at the local university. That is actually someone's homework. Fortunately in the digital age there are always electronic backups.