Day 17 Gigi

Thundering all day today, so activities were indoors.

Early Morning:
1. Lesson length 40 minutes.
2. Objective, to have Gigi learn down first command, and how to sink or drop into it.
3. Methods used are Koehler influenced steps for down (but not training program, due to condensed time), we are still at the shaping or molding stage.
4. Tools used 6' leather lead and metal training collar.
5. No homework for client as yet.
6. Gigi tried out moving her right paw up to evade my sweep under (you are holding the left paw as you do this). Once I started moving her into position quicker, she stop attempting this, and started doing 3/4ths of the sinking down on her own.

Afternoon:
1. Length of lesson 1 hour (two segments of two half hours).
2. Objective, Gigi on collar but off leash heeling through house. The point is to have her ignoring her friends, the thunder, and other things she wants to do and follow me in a heel (doing all of her auto sits) thru the house.
3. Methods used Koehler influenced method of heeling (but not training program due to condensed time).
4. Tools used electronic collar and metal training collar (if positioning was needed).
5. No homework for client as yet.
6. A couple of tries were made to get out of the heel command. Auto sits were consistently performed, some were crooked as she was interested in other stuff. When Gigi started doing that, I used the metal training collar to put her back into position, or guide her into position that was straight, so she would know that was what I am looking for.

Evening:
1. Length of lesson 31 minutes (1 minute until she acheived a down).
2. Objective, to have Gigi relax next to her handler while eating dinner and other dogs are around.
3. Method used was Bedrock's sit on the dog (but not training program due to condensed time).
4. Tools used 6' leather lead and metal collar.
5. No homework yet.
6. No problem. Took her less than a minute (maybe thirty seconds) to go into her down and stay there the entire time. Course this is around dogs and people that she knows.