The Fat Lab Project - Weekend Update

Ok, so the per-day update on my weight losing, dog training summer project just isn't going to work since by the time I'm done jogging/walking Rusty I'm just too tired to talk about it. So I'll just be posting these once-in-awhile updates.

Anyway, I was able to jog/walk with Rusty almost every day this week. I missed 2 days I think, one due to me just being too tired after work and the other 'cos I'm trying to walk him before he gets fed so he doesn't poop on the road or in the park and on that night he was fed early so I ended up not walking him.

One problem I'm having with him is that after I take him out he doesn't want to go back in his cage. He always has a fit right when we close/lock the cage door and he tries to get out by pushing on it. I end up having to stay with him for a few minutes just to calm him down and Shayne even said that he lets out a couple of sad howls whenever I leave to go home after. I really don't know how to deal with it so I'm just going to try and keep at this until he gets used to the idea that I let him out almost every day so he doesn't have to complain, or be sad whenever we put him back in his cage.

I'm hoping this whole thing will be good for the both of us. Our average walk/job time is an hour and 30 minutes so I'm hoping that I'm slowly losing some weight. I want to lose at least 20 pounds by the end of May and I want Rusty to be in a state that I don't have to leash him sometimes when we go out. So I hope everything works out well.