Boy Longe Line Day 1 of 3

This is Boy who started with us last week on 7/11/11.   This is the first day of training, which starts with "sit on the dog" and ends with "longe line".  The first week is all about quiet, peacefulness, and having the dog pay attention to you.  We are not getting the dog to pay attention by flashing treats at them, as this is more about calm and confidence with these exercises.   This happens to be especially good for Boy, who has never learned to  walk on leash with a collar attached   He belongs to a lady that is somewhat physically disabled, and she just can't chance the sudden lunging and fleeing for freedom.

Many things are slowly being changed up for him.   The very first thing was putting a training collar on that is designed to not allow for slippage over his head.  He has slipped other collars.  The next thing is calm confidence from his handler as we start the exercises.   This will begin to transfer to Boy as we get further into the week.   In fact, I plan on posting Day 5 tomorrow, which is the second set of days in the longe line exercises.

He is a short video of his first day.   While the video is only a little over a minute long, the first day included 1/2 hour sit on the dog, 1/2 hour walking between two points, then ending with dropped leash for 20 minutes.



Days 4-7 will deal with more distractions and movement on my part.  We have completed day four today (7/14/2011), and hope to post day five tomorrow.   Boy is already much improved.   He does have fear issues like going up stairs, going through small spaces, having dogs come right into his face or coming towards him in an enclosed area that he feels trapped in, e.t.

He is improving at a decent rate though, and so it's really important for him that the training is not rushed or short cut at all.

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