Her other commands are coming along nicely though. She is responsive and sweet natured and so she picks things up easily but if she doesn't see what's in it for her she can be a bit of a stinker about things. But it's still only day two so we'll take our time and see if we can make training as fun as possible for Findley. She certainly seems to be enjoying it so far even if the part she is enjoying is staring at me like I'm from another planet until I do the funny bouncy walk to get her to approach me. I always say I will do whatever it takes to get a dog to learn something and to enjoy learning it and sometimes that means being a bit of a fool. But Findley is doing great and she is such a bright girl.
Spunky little Findley had a fun day today. We had 3 workouts and a lot of house time in between. She has been introduced to Heel, Sit, Down, Implied Stay and Come. By far the command she toils with most is the Come command. She doesn't try to run off (she hasn't been off-leash yet anyway since it's too soon) but she simply doesn't respond to it yet. She tends to just look at me in a way that screams "I have absolutely no incentive to get up and come to you. I'm comfy here. You can come to me if you want to pet me." So my job is to create some interest in and incentive to come to me when she is called. What I did today was use her puppy-following instinct to my advantage. When I would call her I would also walk backward in a kind of inviting and bouncy way and she would playfully follow. Once she approached me I would ask her to sit then I would praise her like she saved the world. I'm hoping that this exercise raises her interest in coming when called. We'll see how she does with this tomorrow.
Her other commands are coming along nicely though. She is responsive and sweet natured and so she picks things up easily but if she doesn't see what's in it for her she can be a bit of a stinker about things. But it's still only day two so we'll take our time and see if we can make training as fun as possible for Findley. She certainly seems to be enjoying it so far even if the part she is enjoying is staring at me like I'm from another planet until I do the funny bouncy walk to get her to approach me. I always say I will do whatever it takes to get a dog to learn something and to enjoy learning it and sometimes that means being a bit of a fool. But Findley is doing great and she is such a bright girl.
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