Success! Lawson met a stranger today and was completely calm. No jumping no storm of energy just a nice polite young man meeting a new friend. We are nearing the end of our 3 weeks with Lawson and I am so excited to see him rocking it at home with his parents ❤️
If you are ever feeling like a failure as you are training your dogs please remember that dogs will be dogs. You are doing the best you can with a creature that has its own mind and motivations. Larue’s motivations to jump the fence and run away this morning were certainly not motivations we shared, but alas the trainer was made to look the fool. No matter how much experience you have no matter how well trained your dog is they are still going to do what motivates them the most in the moment. Larue is a hunting dog packed full of genetics developed over hundreds of years that tell her to chase the skunk. I in fact can not offer anything more motivating than her natural instinct. So in closing. Breathe. Dogs will be dogs. You have not failed you just learned something new about your dog that you can use to better your relationship in the future.
