Gino is working so hard. He has a good grasp of his commands and while he is still pretty easily distracted he is easy to get back on task. He sometimes gets intimidated by harsh tones of voice so I am careful to keep my words with him firm but calm and light. He really loves praise and he works for that more than he works to avoid correction.
Tomorrow I am going to introduce him to his remote collar and we will begin refining his obedience to off-leash reliability. I anticipate him being very sensitive to his collar and only needing very benign cues in order to communicate with him. He already has been enjoying off-leash play time and so switching gears to working off-leash also should be relatively straight forward. For now he is curled up on a dog bed entirely too large for him because he fell asleep there and I haven’t had the heart to move him to his kennel yet. He is such a sweet fellow.
Tomorrow I am going to introduce him to his remote collar and we will begin refining his obedience to off-leash reliability. I anticipate him being very sensitive to his collar and only needing very benign cues in order to communicate with him. He already has been enjoying off-leash play time and so switching gears to working off-leash also should be relatively straight forward. For now he is curled up on a dog bed entirely too large for him because he fell asleep there and I haven’t had the heart to move him to his kennel yet. He is such a sweet fellow.
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