Today is Minka’s 9th day in my Boot Camp program. She is doing pretty well! She had a few days where she was really struggling. She just didn’t want to focus, was testing her boundaries a lot, and just didn’t want to work at all. The video below is of one of her rough days. I start her out on a Halti (a head collar) and a leash to help keep her focus a little better, because without it she was just a whole lot worse. She does pretty well on the Halti, but then the second I take it off, she goes back to trying to test me and ignore me. I eventually get her back on track, and she does really well after that. I wish I had recorded the time I worked with her after I took this video, because she was awesome! She stayed right by my side really well, was focused almost the entire time, and even ignored a random German Shepherd that was being walked past us by their owner. I was very happy with her! Ever since then she has been doing really great.
Right now I am currently still working on getting her to walk a lot more consistently by my side off leash, I am working on the “place” command around distractions, and also teaching her “down.” I think the thing she is struggling with the most right now is socializing properly. She does pretty well around my dogs, but in Pack to Basics ™ she is very pushy and hyper. I know she will do a lot better with that over the next few weeks, though. I will continue to keep you updated on her dog behavior training and dog obedience training using the electric dog training collar.
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