Callie is doing great. She had a bit of an easy day today because my day was quite full. But her off-leash work out went fine and her walk was pleasant. This weekend she is getting a bit more down time than she does during the week but she will still get a little bit of work in. 
I am very pleased with where she is for day 5 and I think next week will be a ton of fun for her and me. Go Callie! Go!

Cali is coming along well. She has a pretty good grasp of her commands and she is responsive and sensitive to her collar.
She wore her remote all day today and did great with it. She also had a few off-leash work outs and other than one spell where she got frustrated and tried to stop working, she made a great working partner.
Tomorrow we will be pushing her off-leash some more and also spending some time in Placemat in the house.

My good pal Penny goes home tomorrow and I am very pleased with her progress. She has her commands down well and she is very responsive to her handler. She is a dog I would trust off leash (with her remote on) and she has shown me that she can be a quiet and polite house dog.
We took her video today and tomorrow morning I will be taking her head shot for the yearbook. Penny is a very sweet young dog who, with leadership from her people, I am sure will grow to a very well balanced adult dog.
​Good job, Penny!

Callie is coming along nicely. Her obedience is getting more and more solid and she had her first off-leash workout today, in a fenced area. I am not quite comfortable enough with her yet to go outside the fence (it's only day 3 after all) but she is getting more confident that she knows what she is doing.
She has struggled with being friendly with the other dogs here. She plays very nicely out in the yard but if she reaches a threshold, doorway, or even a tight hallway with another dog she gets quite combative. For now we are only letting her out with Ace who is very non-combative and won't rise to her invitation to tussle. But during her house time she has been very polite in the house if she is the only dog on the floor.
I hope to be able to get her out to the farm this weekend or perhaps even Friday if she does really well with her off-leash in the fenced area. I think she would really enjoy the opportunity to let loose and run full tilt.
She has adapted well to her remote trainer. She is a tough cookie and takes a slightly higher correction than most but it is still not super high. (most of my dogs average around level 15 in low distraction areas and she averages around level 20 out of 100 possible stimulation levels, so still quite low). 
Callie enjoys working and LOVES getting praise and so I am sure she will continue to impress me with her work.

We are slowly getting ready to wrap up Penny's time here and I am pleased with her progress. She had her first no fence, no leash, field trip to the farm today and she did very well. She gets nervous when she makes a mistake and you can see that bolting still enters her mind first but she does not bolt. She sticks around well and if she does scoot away she is easy corrected and brought back with a mild correction.
Her obedience is pretty good! I want to clean up her Heel without a leash. She stays with me nicely but she gets a little sloppy if she gets distracted. She also will default to a very floppy and silly Down command if she gets confused, but I think that is partly due to her sense of humor.
Her radius training is really nice. She sticks around well and checks in when asked to come back for a second. 
She has been very polite in the house, even when we had a plumber over to the house she greeted him very enthusiastically but with a buzz from her collar she did not jump up on him (thought she really, really, really wanted to.)
I am, all in all, quite happy with her. We are taking her back out to the farm tomorrow to take her video and to give her more time with the temptation to bolt. She is a good girl and she really seems to enjoy the freedom her new collar is giving her.

Callie is a pretty, tan and white, cow spotted pit bull who is here for two weeks of obedience training. She is a classic pit in that she is eager to please and happy to work but also so strong that it is possible for her to misbehave and she doesn't notice because her people are afterthoughts.
However, once you have her focus she does a good job and learns quickly. We just played with the basics today and let her get settled in. She has made some buddies and has so far been a polite house guest.
Tomorrow we will get a bit more technical and start challenging her more with combination commands and more repetition.

Ms. Penny is back for another week to finish her training. She retained her training well over the weekend and has been happy to get back to work. We started with just a run through of her obedience commands with her remote collar and she did great. We also worked on her manners in the house. She was able to spend 45 minutes on her Placemat and she stayed quiet with moderate distraction going on around her. When her friend, Ace, would trot around she would get antsy and need a quick reminder but she never stepped off her bed.
I hope to ramp up her training tomorrow and move her towards removing the leash for her Heel work. Her recall was solid today in the fenced yard. Tomorrow or the day after we will start experimenting with off-leash with no fence.

Georgie finished his stay with us today. He is coming along just fine and he is now in "upkeep mode." His people no longer need to carve out time every day to practice with him. Instead they need to make obedience his way of life. All day expecting good things from him and insisting that any given command be complied with. It is both easier and harder that "teaching mode" but his people are attentive owners and so they will do fine. He will definitely continue to blossom as he leaves puppyhood.

Penny went home for a weekend of R&R today. She has come quite far and I am looking forward to getting her back on Monday to continue her training. She will be ready very soon to take the leash off and enjoy some real freedom. And that is always a happy day.

George had a good day today. We took a long walk around the neighborhood and he did very well with all the cars driving by. He would look and sulk a little but he never stepped out of his Heel.
He still needs some patience with Down. He does it every time but sometimes he takes a second to think about it. I never give him more than 4 seconds to ponder his next move because I don't want to get caught in the waiting game trap. But he is gettng faster and that's what we want.
We started Place today and I think he understands the concept. He may enjoy a slightly thinner bed for traveling because he wanted to lay half on/half off his mat and it was so thick he couldn't do so comfortably. He eventually figured it out and he stayed out for about 45 minutes before I let him back up. More practice tomorrow.
George came face to face with the house cat today. He got a little boop on the nose then decided to keep his distance for the rest of the evening. I don't think that he and Kimono will end up being bosom companions but he is happy to live in polite indifference to her. And we can't argue with that.
Tomorrow is George's last day and so I will challenge him in his obedience again and work on getting to over an hour on his mat without needing a correction. He is very young and so that is asking a lot but I am sure he can do it.