#training chronicles

I’ve been really slacking on training the past few months with Loki, but we worked on some basics tonight for about half an hour and she did great! We mixed up treats and toys as rewards, worked on some impulse control, come to heel position, yielding to leash pressure, and recall. LOVE this dog. She didn’t want to stop playing (she could chase around treats thrown across the house all day lol) and did great! She apparently forgot what “wait” means so we’ll be working on that! She’s also starting to figure out “settle”, which is ‘go lay down on your mat and stay until released’. Now she’s tired and passed out on the floor.

6 months ago, Loki was one of the least treat motivated dogs I'd ever met, was completely unreliable off leash, and had very little engagement. Yesterday, she did this for nearly an hour. I'm so proud of this girl it's crazy.

They did keep their llw and didn't react at all passing a dog in a yard like 15ft away though so. I think all the work we've done with Lokis dog reactivity is rubbing off on Bruno, when she was calm and ignoring the dogs so was he. Overall p good dogs.

Loki never really learned how to appropriately interact with other dogs, so if she made a correction to another dog, she would generally over correct. It's kind of neat seeing her calmly let Leo know that was her treat, and didn't feel like she needed to correct him for it. We still need to work a little bit with her resource guarding from other dogs, but it's nice to see that she's communicating in a civil dog manner!

Have you guys ever seen such a horrible dog

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What is this? Loki loose leash walking? On a flat collar? And making eye contact?!? Ps: she has blue ears now