I've been so frustrated with my blog host this weekend because I've had the cutest and most charming Giant Schnauzer puppy here and I haven't been able to post a single update about him because my editor kept crashing. 
Winston is a very puppy puppy. He is still very distractible and funny and playful and at his tender age he is allowed to be that way.
That said! He has done a wonderful job of learning his commands and he has worked so so hard to get the answers right. He still sometimes gets overcome with the sillies and tries to turn the Down command into a bouncy play bow but he will do it if you make him even if he would rather tease you into playing.
He has learned Heel/Autosit, Down, Come, Stay, and Placemat. He knew Sit when he got here and that's still a good, solid word for him. The important thing for him is that his handler needs to both keep a sense of humor but also maintain discipline. We don't want him to learn that he doesn't have to do what he is told. He already has a habit of back talking when he doesn't get his way and so we don't want to indulge that at as he grows up. If we tell him to sit, he must sit down even if he is being a pouty cutie pie. He can get all the affection he wants once he does what he was asked to do.
At his maturity level he isn't capable of a long Implied Stay but that should get easier for him as he gets a little older. He has stayed on his placemat with just a few reminders for about an hour so far and I'm pleased with that. He is sensitive to the word no and he hears it well. He definitely knows what it means!
He is going to want to have a rigorous roughhousing play session when he gets home tomorrow because this poor guy has been on a 6' leash for a week! But my guess is that he is gonna zoom around for a while and then pass out and have a good long nap, which he deserves. He has been a blast to train and a joy to have around the house. I am looking forward to his follow ups once he settles in at home. Such a silly guy.

Cooper is such a rock star. He now has a good grasp of all of his commands and his reliability is increasing with each work out. Tomorrow we may end up working inside a bit seeing as the forecast is crummy but he deserves a day of relaxing Placemat and Extended Down Stay work anyway.
Im super pleased with him and he is having a ton of fun. His attitude and willingness to work is making this whole process a joy.

Cooper is a very labby lab who is here for a week of foundation and basic obedience training. I’ve worked with his dad before and it’s always fun to get to train another dog for a family. Cooper is a bright boy with a lot of good energy so I was not surprised that he enjoyed the easy stuff we did today. We refreshed leash walking and Heel, started Down and Implied Stay and Come. Kept it all very simple and fun. He was a goof throughout the workouts but he did well and didn’t need many corrections from his prong collar.
Tomorrow we make his new commands harder and ask a bit more of him by doing Down from the Front and asking him for some extended Stays. This will be a fun dog and I’m looking forward to teaching him.

Since Milo is pretty much done with his training we mostly had fun today. I took him out with just a 6’ leash and no correction collar of any kind. We did a completely silent work out, meaning no verbal commands or cues, hand signals only. He did not make a single mistake. He is really becoming a fun dog to work with though he still gets nervous sometimes if he feels confused. But there are easy ways to build his confidence back up and get him happy again. Mostly a happy voice and an easy answer (like Sit) to get some praise goes a long way.
Tomorrow we are just gonna have more fun with him and challenge him in some other fun way I come up with.

My time with sweet Milo is winding down in a few days. We are focusing now on proofing his training and suring up things like Place and his Stay command. He showed me today that children on tricycles make him a little nervous so I hope to bribe my kids into riding them around again while we work tomorrow to make sure he isn’t too squirrelly.
Milo’s vocabulary has grown significantly in the last two weeks and he has come far in the time I’ve hade him. I’m grateful that we planned on an extra few days to accommodate his person’s traveling because the weather got in the way a little but even with that pesky tornado Milo did well and continue to impress me. Such a good guy.