30/10/2022
Healed now, but great learning moment! How many of you have heard a trainer saying take a dog back to kindergarten or basics? This can happen when they get out of practice on a trained command or behavior. Usually I run my pup around after and crate time, however I forgot that he had not had his time and due to my mistake and my not using the sit stay command he jumped on me while I was cutting open a box that had a dog toy in it. I ended up with stitches and the poor pup was so devastated to be crated while I was rushed to the hospital. He got to come back out so soon as we got home and sniff my hand. He knew he should not jump and I knew to use his training but we all make mistakes so he and I had started back to basics a little more often this month. This is a reminder just like when we don’t use skills we can lose them so can pets and trainers. None of us are perfect and it is ok to have to take a few steps back before moving forward. My hand is ok and luckily missed anything to scary to cut and it will scar, but that’s ok since it could have been my dog or someone else hurt instead. My Heeler is back to his routine training and playing and no incidents since. Remember training should not stop just like we maintain ourselves and our cars we should maintain our skills and our dogs’ skills too.