Sometimes things are so darn simple we just don’t think of them.

While Chester is mostly housetrained, he’s still not completely there. So unless we know he’s fully unloaded, we keep an eye on him. Which can definitely be a pain.

Today I was doing several loads of laundry — loading the washer, moving clothes from washer to dryer, and so forth. While Chester is almost always at my side, sometimes he does like to wander off — and since our laundry room is at the end of a narrow hallway, he doesn’t have far to wander before I can’t see him.

The solution was so simple; it finally came to me today. Have him do a down-stay while I did what I needed to do in the laundry room. And it worked like a charm, too.

I didn’t need to have treats on me, either (and I didn’t). I simply released him when he was done, had him come with me into the kitchen, and gave him his treat. I think he’s going to like this new game.

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