Tuesday it was raining. As motivated as I am to train my dog, that does not involve walking in the rain while stopping every 10 feet. So we did some living room exercises.
My living room, kitchen, dining room and front hallway are all connected together in a big square (my kitchen is a hallway with cabinets on the walls, in case you can't picture that layout.) So we did heel and come mixed in with target, down and sit. Dr. Yin also suggests seeing if your dog actually knows any of the words you say or if they just look for hand signals and body language. It turns out that when I don't move anything except my mouth, Juneau understands "down" and "come". "Sit" on the other hand is a complete mystery.
We also started learning "watch me". In this exercise, Juneau has to stop what she is doing and sit and look at my face for a few seconds. Right now it means "look away from sniffing the carpet and look at my face for 3 seconds" but I plan for it to mean "look away from that dog and look at my face as we walk by". We'll see.
As a happy side note: I haven't been bitten in one whole week!
Juneau bites you a lot?
ReplyDeleteYes. Juneau likes to jump up on me and bite me. It is what would be a little nip in a tiny dog, but she is far from tiny. She should have learned as a baby not to incite play with teeth, but she didn't.
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