Two dogs and a trainer
I’ll be honest, a one hour session with one of my dogs is a warm up. They will work me all day if I let them. The only time our sessions are short is when they walk away from me or the criteria gets sloppy. One other reason for a short session is when they’re working on something new, those sessions last about 20min taking what I can get in that time frame and ending on a good note.
Teamwork
Since this is a teamwork session, they’re responsible for each other’s mistakes. If both of them don’t go around the cone it doesn’t count. In order for either one of them to get paid, they both have to go around the cone otherwise it’s just a verbal reward.
Saturday night training
No lures, no hand gestures, just verbal communication.
Communication and engagement
Working on my engagement and communication with Poppy. Distraction levels are low right now. Anytime I am introducing my dog’s to something new for the first time I always start where there is little to no distraction.
Leash desensitization
I took Appa for a hike the other day, I put a leash on him and dropped it. He was so confused about the leash he didn’t wanna move. But when I took the leash off of him, he was good to go and stayed by my side the whole time. However he did run off a few times with the other dogs to explore but he always came back to me. The other dogs that were more comfortable in their element did exactly what they were supposed to do. They ran off and explored the urban environment but when they got too far ahead, they would look back at me making eye contact and then push on. When my dogs are off leash that’s one thing I require is eye contact. When my dog or dogs lock eyes with me, that lets me know that he or she is ready to receive a command that won’t or shouldn’t fall on deaf ears. But back to this guy… I need to desensitize him to the leash. I thought I could skip this part of training with Appa simply because he has accomplished so much in other areas off leash but things didn’t go quite as planned so here we’re going back to the basics. I require for all my fur babies to be in a sit position when being leashed up.
Packwalk
Don’t compare me to your average dog walker we different.
Confidence building
The goals for this dog to touch my closed fist and get rewarded for doing so and also being rewarded for approaching me.
Training on a elevated surface
Reinforcing basic obedience, sit, down, and stand.
Working on commands around other dogs
This session is all about working with or around other dogs.
Ground work
Working on position change with Eclipse
Quiet on the set
Without verbally speaking to the dogs, they are being rewarded for giving me the right behavior which is standing or sitting on a marker
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