I've learned this Doggy Zen stuff pretty well now (Mother-person says I'm very clever!) She holds out a treat, I ignore it, she clicks and i get the treat. All I have to do is sit still. But now she's added a new wrinkle and I don't understand at all!

Tonight she muttered something about 'targeting' and stuck her finger under my nose, so I ignored it. I mean, my job is to sit still, right? And nothing happened! She didn't click! Sometimes I think the woman is mad.

Then I touched her finger by mistake and she clicked! Huh? Then she got out this orange fetch stick, which looks like quite a nice toy, and she waved it under my nose and rolled it around on the floor. Now under normal circumstances I would have liked to play with it, but my job during lessons is to sit still, so I sat still, and she didn't click!

Then we got the finger again (it really isn't polite, you know!), and eventually I started touching that with my nose because it seemed to work, and she clicked and I got some more treats. Then she held out a treat and said 'Leave it' and I had to sit still again.

You don't suppose she wants me to do more than one job, do you? I mean, I get paid to sit still and not snatch treats, and now I have to touch a finger as well. It's all very confusing, and I think I want overtime!