Two of my daughters and their little ones came for lunch yesterday and it was such a beautiful day that we wanted to eat out on the patio. Their kids are the ones that are being exposed to Luke. It has become less frequent as he got bigger because they began to run from him screaming "Ahh.....monste r!"
Yesterday our mission was to teach him how to let us eat without bothering us. I want him to go lie down while we eat and then he will get something. I put his short leash around the chair away from us and gave him his bone and he laid there and did pretty well. But I am using the little nylon leash alot now and wondered if that's a good way to train him. When the little ones are here outside, they are 1,2,and 3 I keep him on this little leash to keep him from jumping. He's very sweet to them, it is only his size and weight and the fact that he is exited. I just keep saying "gentle" when he is around them and tug a little on the leash.
Now I have rambled too much. What I want to know is if the leash is an ok idea. It APPEARS that if I do that for a while when they are here, I can let him off and he is less rambunctious.