Personal Trainer for hire

 

You know, we canines could definitely have jobs as Personal Trainers.  We are just like the trainer who gets humans to exercise and become more fit.  And besides the daily walks that we require, we have an assortment of ways to get humans moving.  Here are a variety of examples and they are best employed when the human is doing something else – for example, if they are seated and doing something like reading or working on their computers:

·      Stand at the window and bark.  And add a little growl.  This makes the human get up to see what we are looking at.  It doesn’t matter if nothing is there – we pretend whatever it was has disappeared into the woods. The objective, remember is to get that human MOVING.

·      Bark at the front door.  Like the window technique, this never fails to get a human up and moving. 

·      Use the urky-gurky sound.  NOTHING can get a human moving more quickly – even from a sound sleep, than the sound of a dog before he pukes. 

·      Start a tussle with one of your canine “brothers.”  Make it sound as if you are going to kill each other.  But of course you AREN’T – you just want to get that human adrenaline pumping.

·      Steal something.  And run past the human – just out of reach.  The human of course must get up to get back whatever it was.  Unless you can eat it first.

·      Lick yourself.  Or your canine sibling.  A LOT.  This will get the human to come over and give you something else to chomp on, like a bone.

·      INSIST that the human play fetch with you.  This activity builds arm muscles.  BUT, you can also get them moving by returning with the toy or ball and dropping it.  Just out of reach.

·      Simply disappear into another room.  And be VERY quiet.  This will make the human move to see what you are doing. 

Yes - we canines DEFINITELY could be Personal Trainers. So for all those humans spending money on gym memberships – I have a better idea.  Get a dog.

Have a good one!!

© Linda Wozniak