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Personalized Training Program: Lucy
The more you utilize your coaching line and share questions and observations about your dog, the better I am able to structure sessions to meet your needs!
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“Marco Polo” is an app that functions like a video walkie-talkie - connect directly with me with videos of your dog training, your dog’s behavior you have questions about, or to ask training or follow up questions. The link above will connect you directly with me once you download the (free) app.
Personalized Program Resources
Board and Train: 06/22-07/06
Handoff Session
Try a Squeasy for treats dispension if Lucy is still most interested in wet food!
With Lucy’s loose leash walking, the challenge will be balancing and identifying if her pulling and misbehavior is more the result of adolescent exploration or frantic anxiety. Look for signs in her body language and behavior to help determine how to best react:
If she’s exploring/pushing behavior, she will likely be pulling towards something in particular. Her body language will be alert and interested, and she will be difficult to distract from a singular focus. In these situations, persistence is called for. Walk up her leash and either sit with her or stand near her and look for attention and engagement in that spot or nearby. Work on building up to the behavior you want to see in that situation, even if you have to add some distance initially.
If she’s worried about her environment, you’ll likely see more desire to move away without specific destination. She will likely have tucked her tail and may have slicked back ears and/or a rounded back. In these instances, priority should be moving with her and changing gears, getting her out of the situation she is in as a priority and then moving towards building engagement.
In both cases, distance from her excitement/anxiety is never a bad choice, you just may adopt different expectations or a different perspective when you do so!
In cooperative care, look for opportunities for thin slices of progress. Rather than moving directly from holding Lucy to clipping one toe, look for steps like:
Touching her foot, removing your hand and rewarding
Hold the clipper and touch her foot (not with the clipper), remove your hand and reward
Hover over her foot with the clipper, remove hand and reward
Hover over her foot with the clipper, clip a piece of pasta near her foot, and reward
Hover over her foot and make a clipping motion, remove hand and reward
Hold the clipper posed over toenail, move back, clip pasta, remove hand and reward
Let me know how things are going and if there’s anywhere she’s getting stuck!