Week 6 Homework Notes and Videos

 Week 5 homework, especially for inside work, remains the same:

Short List of Above:

  1. Sit on The Dog
  2. Long Place dropped leash
  3. Relieving Leash Tension
  4. Loose Leash Inside Walk around distractions
  5. Heel inside around distraction objects (food, toys, et). See if you can do it four times in a row, then give food reward, and repeat for 2 other sessions.  Four times in a row, I mean I want a good position for the last few steps and then an auto sit.
  6. Downs
  7. Sit stays with a dropped leash
  8. Send to Place
  9. Flirt Pole Play Training (you can see if you can bring this outside too)
Outside walk and practice (shoot for a few minutes at a time of dialling your puppy in:

  1. Walking protocols as in Week 5 Examples.  This is for working on especially when your puppy is on the 6' leash.  The goal is just to get Rigatoni used to walking nicely on a leash.  This will take a while.
  2. Lured Heeling Step 1 or 2 can be practiced for a short amount of time.
WEEK 6 WORK FOR OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS AND FAR AWAY DOG DISTRACTIONS (NOTE JUST THE GROUND CAN BE QUITE DISTRACTING ESPECIALLY IF THE SNOW IS MELTING):

  1. Sits and maybe sit stays when getting 4 in a row for 3 sessions becomes easy.  By easy, this means you can get this done outside for well under 5 minutes.

  2. Loose leash walking while giving food rewards on the left around outside distractions, including possible dogs in the distance (NOTE:  ONCE LOOSE LEASH BECOMES EASY, PRACTICE LURED HEELING STEP 1 IN OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS):

  3. If it is warm enough for humans, do sit on the dog somewhere where Rigatoni can see other dogs.

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