Week 2 Notes, Homework, and Videos

    NOTE 1:  ALL TRAINING SHOULD BE DONE WITH TRAINING COLLAR AND TRAINING LEASH ON.

NOTE 2:  DO NOT LEAVE TRAINING COLLAR OR TRAINING SLIP LEAD ON WHEN YOU ARE NOT ACTIVELY TRAINING YOUR DOG.

NOTE 3:  PLEASE PUT ON YOUR TRAINING COLLAR CORRECTLY.  ALSO BE SURE TO HOLD THE LEASH CORRECTLY.


This is a link to a leash article on our business blog.  Leashes How to Hold Them and How to Fold Them.

NOTE 4:  LUCY COULD VERY WELL WORK IN THE YARD FOR YOU.  IF THAT IS TOO DIFFICULT AT FIRST, JUST WORK IN THE INSIDE DISTRACTIONS.

NOTE 5:  THE GOALS ARE PLACES TO WORK TO IN THE FUTURE.  IF YOU DON'T MAKE THE GOAL, DON'T WORRY AS LONG AS YOU PUT IN THE WORK TOWARDS THE GOAL.  PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU CAN CALL OR EMAIL ME WITH ANY TRAINING PROBLEMS THAT COME UP IN BETWEEN LESSONS.

NOTE 6:  IF YOU DON'T GET THROUGH ALL THE EXERCISES IN ONE DAY, YOU CAN JUST BE SURE THAT THE EXERCISES YOU DID NOT GET TO ARE DONE THE NEXT DAY.   THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE, I THINK, IS THE MOLDED SITS.   HOWEVER, THEY ALL WORK TOGETHER TO START TO CHANGE BEHAVIOR.

NOTE 7:  WHEN YOUR DOG WORKS WITH YOU AT HOME, YOU MAY NEED TO GO DOWN IN TIME AND THEN BUILD BACK UP TO WHERE YOUR DOG WAS TRAINING WITH ME (IF YOU ARE IN PACK LEARNING AND BOARD & TRAIN).  THE DOG WILL WORK BETTER FOR WHOEVER THEY WERE LAST WORKING WITH, SO OFTEN THE TIME NEEDS TO BE BUILT UP BY THE OWNER TO HAVE THE SAME SORT OF WORKING RELATIONSHIP.

NOTE 8:  TRAINING CAN BE DONE IN SEPARATE SESSIONS.  I LIKE TO KEEP MY SESSIONS AT 15 MINUTES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE DAY (EXCEPT FOR LONG PLACE).  OTHERWISE, YOU CAN BURN YOUR DOG OR PUPPY OUT.

NOTE 9:  MARKER WORDS ARE GOOD=GOOD JOB KEEP GOING YES=GOOD JOB YOU ARE RELEASED FROM THE EXERCISE AND NO=THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR.

NOTE 10:  BLUE TEXT GOES TO THE DIRECTIONS FOR THE EXERCISES.  [IT IS A LINK]

Homework Schedule:

Calming Exercises:

  1. Long Place 30 minutes Goal:  To work on having your dog be able to stay on the place with the leash dropped while you sit for 30 minutes.  (If they leave the place, this is fine.  You don't need to start over, but just keep track of the amount of times and maybe what situations made your dog leave their place).




Obedience Exercises:
NOTE 1: Sit with corrections is not on here, because you can work that with the heeling and auto sits.  So you will still be working that.  I also took still sit stays off, because you can do that practice with the recall exercise.

NOTE 2:  Outside, a good warm up to the circle sit stay and other exercises, could be sits for three sets of four in a row, and those still sit stay exercises.   That is what I tend to do when I am increasing the distraction level (although Lucy is usually good at that as well.)

Also remember you can group these exercises together for a session.
  1. Heeling in the more traditional way (I did not continue the luring with her, because of her tummy upset and she really does not need treats to work well).  10 minutes  Goal is to get 3 sets of 4 auto sits AND to have three good steps in heel before stopping for auto sit (no goal for in a row for the actual moving heel other than to be sure to get 3-5 good positioned steps before auto sit).

  2. Send to Place (using let's go to have her follow in between) 5 minutes plus Goal:  Is still to get three sessions of four in a row.  Week 2 Change is to work on the eye contact with Let's Go to have her seamlessly (without planting her self) walking in between.



  3. Circle Sit Stays 5 plus minutes Goal: Is to get four in a row circle stays for 1 minute.  Practice your collar sit correction if she gets up.  Remember the sit correction is just the loose tight loose motion of the chain collar.  It does not need to be harsh just a quick zip zing movement.  If done correctly it will not move your dog towards you or move her at all.     WEEK 2 CHANGE IS DROPPING THE LEASH INSIDE AND INCREASING DISTRANCE.



  4. Circle Place 15 Plus minutes Goal:  Is to be able to get four in a row of these for one minute.  NOTE WEEK 2 CHANGE IS DROPPING THE LEASH WHILE YOU DO THIS INSIDE WHILE INCREASING DISTANCE AWAY FROM HER.  ALSO, I THINK THE CIRCLE PLACES LEASH DROPPED WITH LUCY IS ON THE HEELING VIDEO.  SO HERE I AM DOING IT WITH BLUEY.

  5. Recall or Come Command WITH Still Sit StayStill Sit Stay 15 plus minutes Goal:  To get three sets of four in a row lured come commands.NOTE WEEK 2 CHANGE IS NOT USING FOOD FOR THE LURE.

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