Gigi Day 12 Lesson 31

Looonnnng Portsmouth day:
1. Lesson two hours.
2. Objective, to have Gigi walking very closely with city dogs from behind (dog's behind to Gigi) and be able to pass without incident with a lane in between when dog coming from front. Also to have Gigi be still and realize no dog is out to harm her, in fact they are all pretty much ignoring her.
3. Techniques used sit on the dog and Koehler influenced heeling exercise (not training program due to condensed time).
4. Equipment is muzzle, metal training collar, e-collar and bench (for sit on the dog).
5. Owner not involved so no homework given as yet.
6. It was a grueling day for Gigi. I did get us water through out the day. We spent a good hour heeling around the square and backroads of Portsmouth. Many many dogs out on Saturday. Many very untrained ones, with owners who want to walk up to every other dog. Gigi only lunged once at an Irish Setter while we were doing sit on the dog. This makes her correct herself by the collar pressure when she leaps, and all was calm after. This was the first dog that tried to approach her during the day. I also had several up close conversations with other owners and dogs, who allowed me to just have Gigi sit there as we conversed about dog training. It took her three minutes to go into a down on sit on the dog today. One owner helped me do reps of about turns toward her dog and away with Gigi. Gigi was interested in the dog, and probably would have tried something if I had the owner come closer, but instead did quite a few about turns without looking back.