Olivia had an interesting day. She started out with a very good morning workout and then she seems to have stubbed her toe while playing in the yard (she and Ace ran into a pile of sticks while running with one of Ace’s toys together) and she was a little sore on her paw. So we let her take much of the day off to make sure she wasn’t sore while we worked. This evening we had her first workout on her remote collar. She is sensitive to it and is not frightened by it but she was a little more easily startled by things like passing cars etc so I do think the collar made her nervous at first.
She responded well to the low level corrections and she solicited praise when she got the answer right (which was more often than not). The big thing she is still toiling with and what I feel her people will want to really drive home when she returns to them is her Implied Stay. She really wants to pop right back up when she is distracted. We will work on this next week and see how well we can improve this. Part of it is because she is quite young still and so she is impulsive. But we can teach her better patience and get her on the track to being able to hold a down for a couple hours at least.
Tomorrow we work more with her remote and get ready to take the leash off early next week.
She responded well to the low level corrections and she solicited praise when she got the answer right (which was more often than not). The big thing she is still toiling with and what I feel her people will want to really drive home when she returns to them is her Implied Stay. She really wants to pop right back up when she is distracted. We will work on this next week and see how well we can improve this. Part of it is because she is quite young still and so she is impulsive. But we can teach her better patience and get her on the track to being able to hold a down for a couple hours at least.
Tomorrow we work more with her remote and get ready to take the leash off early next week.
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