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Free State K9

Dexter and Kimber Board and Train day 5

9/19/2014

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Bless their hearts, today was an adventure. I had a very busy day with lessons and so didn't get -as- much training done with the Shepherd kids (as I call them) as I would have liked. But the work we did do was important. We worked on tandem training today. So far their training has been more or less individual (with other dogs milling around but not involved in the work out). Today I had Dexter and Kimber working side by side. They were good for the most part. They were happy to hold Sit and Down together (Kimber got growly and grumpy when Dexter's bottom was touching her, they really are like siblings on a perpetual road trip) but Heel was an absolute joke. They completely forgot about their training when asked to walk next to each other. It became a festival of face nipping, shoulder rubbing, prancing like little ponies, and all out shenanigans. When they are not arguing they are so cute together. We got maybe 6 minutes of good Heel work done with both of them walking side by side. Kimber eventually decided she wanted to try to walk between my legs instead of next to her brother, which was hilarious but posed all sorts of logistical issues when it came to me being able to walk.
Needless to say, we will continue our practice on this, tomorrow. Kimber is also still toiling with going completely off leash so she will still get plenty of one on one time with me working on that. Dexter is in practice mode. He isn't perfect yet but he is fully off leash and doing very well. I am just trying to build his confidence as much as I can. He gets the right answer very often but he always expects that he is getting it wrong so I need to puff him up a bit with some lavish praise so he understands that he is actually doing a very good job. 
These two crack me up every day and we are having a lot of fun. Tomorrow is another day and we will be able to get more work done this weekend when my schedule isn't so hectic. 
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