Today was HUGE! For the first time ever, I came away excited after training Moto. We worked on attention. I've backchained almost to the very beginning as I don't feel he fully understands that watch means Watch - even with distractions. We trained on the road with cars going by, by the fence with my other dogs barking at him, with toys on the ground, and he caught on pretty quickly. I was very pleased. We then worked on his folding down - he does it very nicely but he needs to be straight consistently. That cleaned up right away.
I wish the weather wasn't so nasty so we could work on go-outs and directed jumping more. The winds have been howling for days, it seems, and blow over the jumps.
The very best part was finishing the training, Moto seemed very pleased with himself, jumped up on his own with lots of tail wagging.
I've also noticed he's bonding to me more, choosing my company over the pack.
So progress really IS being made - there's hope after all!
Tricks by any other name
10 years ago
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