Here is Max on his training walk yesterday. Training walks are different from sending your dog out with a regular dog walker on so many levels.
Max has made immense progress! From a dog that would run off and chase birds and squirrels to this. Training walks are stimulating and fun for your dog. Rather than just letting him run and sniff for free or go and find fun in strangers dogs, his brain is engaged and he is connected to me.
Training walks are available to dogs of all ages.
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Bruce has been working on his sits until released today. Just one minor blip but this is huge progress.
Excellent recall around distraction work from Otto the field spaniel.
This guy is obsessed with Squirrels and will switch off his owner and go and make his own fun. I have been doing some training walks with him to try and form some new habits by keeping him busy. Today I started to see the fruits of my labours.
Progressing loose lead walking by counting and rewarding in incremental steps. We start rewards on the count of two, then four and 6 and so on. Here we have built up the time to the count of 40. Our criteria to keep counting is a loose lead.
Getting a dog to relax in public settings such as the pub or vets waiting room can be very valuable. Here is the start of teaching a relaxed down on lead this morning.
Recall practice with Maple. Her owners look to have done their homework as Maple's response to the whistle cue is excellent.
Playing with the boys this morning. Ernie's stop has got sloppy. Need to work on it.
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Working on stop whistle when moving away today.
Seb progressing to walking around some real dogs having initially worked with the stuffies. Trying so hard to resist the temptation of having to say hello. Boy did good.
Seb gets awfully excited by other dogs. We started on lead around these stuffed replica dogs progressing to being off lead here. Ill add another video of him doing some on lead work around three of my gang. Great work Seb.
