Yesterday was day 4 for Rocky. He has come a long way and I am proud of him. He has done pretty well off-leash. He still gets nervous and I have found the best way to handle him when he is scared and starts darting around a little is to tell him something easy to do. I have been using Sit and then Down to break him of his nervous headspace. Telling him exactly what to do calms him down.
His recall command has been getting better and better and, in some ways more importantly, his natural “check in” instinct has gotten better honed. Now when he is playing off-leash or going on a walk he checks in with me more than he had before. Every time he comes back on his own to visit or even checks where I am I have been heaping on the praise to encourage him to see his handler as “home base”. He spends a lot of time in his own head having Rocky thoughts and doing Rocky things and I’ve seen a great change in him by encouraging him to try to keep his people in mind while he is busy.
he is here for one more day and I hope to just build his good experiences and his confidence. He is such a good boy.
His recall command has been getting better and better and, in some ways more importantly, his natural “check in” instinct has gotten better honed. Now when he is playing off-leash or going on a walk he checks in with me more than he had before. Every time he comes back on his own to visit or even checks where I am I have been heaping on the praise to encourage him to see his handler as “home base”. He spends a lot of time in his own head having Rocky thoughts and doing Rocky things and I’ve seen a great change in him by encouraging him to try to keep his people in mind while he is busy.
he is here for one more day and I hope to just build his good experiences and his confidence. He is such a good boy.
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