How do you get someone to hurry up and feed you when you're hungry? My mother-person is hopeless. I jump up at the counter-top to try to get to the food, and she puts the measuring cup and the spoon down and stands back and folds her arms! I mean, what do you do with a person like this? Trade her in?

My mother-person is very disorganised about training - she's shaped my dad's bark to be a big deep woof! but he doesn't know about coming when he's called! So I suggested that we should work through Shirley Chong's Clicker Cookbook, which covers the basics really well - Shirley is a fantastic trainer and my mother-person has always said that she learned more from being on Shirley's list than from anything else. And mother-person needs the structured approach :)

She's doing the cookbook with my mum and dad as well, so they can learn the basics too!