Cruising right along with Ms. Maisy. She is doing well with her obedience and her Placemat skills are getting better. She is impulsive still and her instinct is still to run at whatever she wants with full force. That will be a habit that takes a while to reset in her brain and so the very best thing her owners can do to curb that extremely strong pulling is to leave her pinch collar attached to her leash. Whenever she goes outside for a walk, even just to potty or to go to the car, she should wear her pinch collar so that she can always be corrected for impulsive pulling. Eventually she won't need her correction collar anymore but the fastest way to get there is to not let her pull ever.
Around the house she only needs her collar when she is getting riled up. When the house is hectic I will have her wear her pinch collar with a short "training tab" (think like a 8" leash) so that I can grab it, correct her, and let her go again without her tripping on her leash the entire time. But when the house is calm she hasn't needed much correcting inside.
Her commands are going really well. She still needs occasional corrections for Down and sometimes for Implied Stay if she gets distracted but she is easy to correct and she loves praise so she isn't a difficult dog to set back to task. She loves praise so much that I have to keep her praise very warm and calm or else she throws herself a little celebration for getting the answer right.
We are in proofing stage now and so we are working around distractions and for longer periods trying to get her as experienced as possible before she goes home this weekend.
Around the house she only needs her collar when she is getting riled up. When the house is hectic I will have her wear her pinch collar with a short "training tab" (think like a 8" leash) so that I can grab it, correct her, and let her go again without her tripping on her leash the entire time. But when the house is calm she hasn't needed much correcting inside.
Her commands are going really well. She still needs occasional corrections for Down and sometimes for Implied Stay if she gets distracted but she is easy to correct and she loves praise so she isn't a difficult dog to set back to task. She loves praise so much that I have to keep her praise very warm and calm or else she throws herself a little celebration for getting the answer right.
We are in proofing stage now and so we are working around distractions and for longer periods trying to get her as experienced as possible before she goes home this weekend.
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