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Don shakes his head at Vincent's question, "I honestly can't say, I've never tried how it tastes. And the one we use doesn't really say the flavor, we get it directly from the vet since we can't really use the same kind like for a regular dog." Laughing softly he opens the door to where the girls are and Bobbie plops down next to Wolfie, giving them both puppy-eyes as she begs for the treat.

"Now, you'll have to make them lay down, if you can make them lay down and not look at you while waiting for the treat for at least five seconds you can give it to them. That's the start of them submitting to you."

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"Well, at least the liked the taste? Better than them hating the taste and the brushing." Vincent says simply. Gotta take what you can get. He just follows Don out to the dogs, chuckling a bit at Bobbie and her puppy eyes. "I could see random people wanting to give her treats if she'd do it to everyone." It is cute, but he isn't affected that much.

"Delayed gratification is a go then." He says. It's like humans except not.

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"Yeah, and the next time we can try doing it longer, like fifteen seconds. This way they get used to you and will listen to you when you want them to get off. My mom on the other hand doesn't really mind them climbing all over her. People don't realize just how much energy she has for someone her age. Heck, my dad is the one who drinks coffee in the morning, but not mom. Now just give them the treats one at a time starting with Wolfie since she's a higher rank than Bobbie."

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Vincent nods a bit. "Or just gain enough weight so that they can't squish me." He snorts, joking about that at least. "Some people don't mind....but some dogs can take you down." Like these can. Little dogs, all he worries about is whether the claws have been trimmed or not. "And everyone does have different energy levels." So do animals. So he starts the treat thing, doing as he was told.

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Wolfie lays down as he commands since she was already sitting, but continues to look up at Vincent, almost like she's having a staring contest with him. Several minutes go by when finally she gets tired of staring at him and yawns, putting her head down between her paws, but lays her ears back.

"Don't give her the treat, not until her ears are up. When they are down like that she's in a foul mood and might bite you if you try to give her a treat. Another reason why I had you do her first, she's a very temperamental girl to deal with. Only reason why she accepted me in the beginning when we first got her was because to her I was still a pup and not much of a threat."

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Vincent just shrugs as Wolfie stares at him. "I have no life really so I can do this for awhile." He says simply, resisting the urge to make some weird face for the hell of it.

"I don't know much about dogs, but I do know that little fact." He just says. "I could tell she's more temperamental than Bobbie." He says simply. The stick taught him well. He kind of chuckles at his words. "Gotta protect the baby?"

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"Yeah, you could say something like that. Though now I'm probably considered the alpha, and you can probably figure out why too." Wolfie twitches her ears as she listens to the two of them talk, then finally yawns and her ears go back to a normal position. She grumbles a bit but doesn't show any indication of being hostile towards Vincent. She's like that for as least five seconds, relenting to him some.

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Vincent just smiles at him a bit. "It makes as much sense as anything." Unless they see the baby whatever as food, he can't see them attacking. Hell, a lion tried to take care of a baby antelope so...why not? He just nods a bit at his words. "Oh, so now you want the treat?" He does, finally, let her have the treat.

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Grumbling, she takes teh treat from him, making sure to get a lot of slobber on his hand, then walks off to eat the treat away from Bobbie. Once Wolfie is gone, Bobbie begins whining really loudly, making it obvious that she wants a treat as well.

"And now she'll begin the butt wiggling," as Don says this Bobbie begins shifting her weight impatiently on her hind legs, which does make it look like she's wiggling her butt. "That part is totally the dog in her and not the wolf." Don can't help but smile at her antics, finding her behavior amusing.

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"Ew." That's all Vincent says before wiping his hand off on his pants. "Remind me why I wanted to give her a treat again?" He says to Don. He knows dogs slobber, but that's a lot more than normal in his opinion.

He chuckles as he sees Bobbie being all excited over the treat. "Gotta calm down and then you'll get the treat." He says to her. "Though it is cute." He says, smiling a bit.

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"Because you think they are cute furballs and want to be able to play with them without them treating you like you're lower than them? That's at least what I thought we were doing this for." Don chuckles a bit, he thought of them as cute furballs even if most other people didn't.

When Vincent says that she starts doing a half bark, half whine as she tries to be unnoticeable as she inches closer to Vincent and the treat. She knew that misbehaving wouldn't get her a treat, but begging wasn't part of that.

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"Well, I think I could live without playing with Wolfie...especially if I'm going to be something to drool all over." He doesn't mind it except when it's obvious the dog is doing it on purpose. "And like I said, puppies. They are puppies. All dogs are puppies." He says simply.

He just looks at her. "That's not what you're supposed to do to get the treat and you know it. You're supposed to be all good and calm. Then you get tasties."

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Ears drooping, Bobbie cries, looking from Vincent to Don as if not sure what she's supposed to do.

"Well, at least she's not getting hostile with you, I think she's a little confused as to what you're doing. Normally when we trained them to do that we commanded her to lay down then to submit. All we have to do now though is tell her to lay down and she submits on her own. You might have to make her submit. Since we know she won't bite you, try to push her over on her side and lay her head down. If you can get her to go on her side just lightly hold your hand over her shoulder until she stops looking towards you for at least a minute. That's what my parents taught me to do when we first got them."

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Vincent, truth be told, kind of just wants to give Bobbie the treat. Mainly because she just tried to squish him, that's all. There are much worse things in the world than being squished by a puppy.

He just blinks a bit before looking at Bobbie a bit. "Alrighty then." He says, shrugging a bit. The main thing he knows is if the dog isn't hostile, he wants to pet the dog. He just does his best to do as he's told, though he doesn't mind Bobbie at much as Wolfie. For reasons, though he likes them both.

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Vincent trying to push her onto her side startles her a bit, making her flail with ehr legs a bit as she rolls over. She keeps her head up looking confused between Don and Vincent while trying to get up without making it obvious she didn't like being forced down like that.

"Whatever you do don't pet her. Petting her will make her think what she's doing is alright to do, but its not. Wait until she calms down, then you can pet her a little bit. Then when she submits you can give her the treat."

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Vincent would probably react about the same way, even as a human. "It's alright." He wouldn't hurt the wolves unless they were trying to eat him alive or something. He wouldn't let them do that to him. He just does as he's told though part of him still just wants to give Bobbie the treat and be done and all. Bobbie has a nicer nature in his opinion. Maybe she's just more social.