"No Bark" Fail

Here's more footage from my howling dogs. Since I am unable to use a mic to yell at them while I'm at work (firewall issues), I basically recorded a sound clip of myself saying "NO BARK!", which plays whenever I sent a chat message to the account at home. As you can see from the video, this is not really working. The first time they heard my ghost voice, they were a bit confused, but after a while, they just ignored it. :(

Puppy Daisy

So Daisy wasn't all that bad when I got her. You can see from this video that it was pretty hard to resist this cute little face and her skunk-like body. I originally thought of naming her "Flower" from Bambi and b/c she looked like a skunk. But then someone recommended "Daisy" since it's a type of flower. Her name turned out to be quite ironic since she is very un-ladylike.

Daisy the smarty

I bought Daisy a Nina Ottosson Spinny Toy (similar to this one), which was supposed to keep her super busy and occupied. Unfortunately, Daisy is super food motivated and figured out how to master this toy in about 5 minutes. Instead of trying to get the food out the proper way, she just learned to flip it over and use her paw to spin it, resulting in all the food coming out. Although she knows how to use her nose to get all the food out the proper way, this kind of defeats the purpose of me leaving this out while we're gone to keep her busy.



These toys are definitely more advanced than the kong, but not as hard as something like the Premier Busy Buddy Tug-a-Jug toy, which I highly recommend. This toy is way more difficult b/c of the rope attached to it. The rope allows for barely any food to fall out and that's only if the jug is tilted at certain angles. If the rope is pulled too hard, the hole gets plugged up and no food falls out. I can usually keep Daisy occupied for a good 30 minutes with this one until she gives up on the few kibble bits left in the container.