At the third out of six group

training sessions for our newly

adopted four-year-old Chocolate

Lab, after hearing the trainer say,

“Give the command; when they

obey, immediately give the treat

and say Good Boy, Good Boy,

Good Boy,” that I began to wonder

why my parents didn’t say that to

me over and over maybe with a treat

like I say it to my dog. I asked the

trainer about that. The other dog

owners laughed knowingly and he

just said, “Tell me about it.”