Lessons learned and unlearned

Dog’s can learn and unlearn tricks pretty quick. When we first got Brody he actually came when you told him to come. Well, that has changed. He now kinda just looks around and goes back to gnawing holes in his squeaker toys or playing (dominatingly) tug-a-war with my brother-in-laws dog up visiting for a couple of days. So we will have to do some obedience training with him for he quickly unlearned what he had previously learned. However he has been afraid to go up the stairs. He would go only as far as he could without taking his hind legs off the ground floor. That has changed now. After crying for 5 minutes because everyone was upstairs in school, he braved the stairs and made it gingerly up. Now, up and down the stairs he goes without any problem. Tomorrow we will see if he will learn to handle being left alone while the kids are in school and no partner to wrestle with.