Sunday, October 11, 2015

Mind the door

September was a pretty uneventful month. We are making sure Alfie's sit, touch, and shake are good.

We definitely need to work on a "drop" and retrieve. He has a habit of putting anything and everything into his mouth.

He's integrating into our hikes.

And he's following his older brother in the Life Skills class this session at FDSA. So he's getting some leash skills work and Zen (impulse control).

But he desperately, DESPERATELY needs door manners. In the following video, the first thing you see is a clip from AFTER we worked on this training. You can see how he tries to push out of the door, but how he's now learning to wait when asked. After that, you see how I am teaching that wait.

He's a pretty smart little guy.