Week 7 Homework Notes and Video

  Week 5 homework, especially for inside work, remains the same:  SCROLL DOWN FOR WEEK 7 WORK ADDITIONS ON OUTSIDE WALKS.

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 a food reward, and repeat for 2 other sessions.  Four times in a row, 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 7 WORK FOR OUTSIDE DISTRACTIONS AND DOG DISTRACTIONS (STILL DISTANT DOGS ALTHOUGH HE IS DOING MUCH BETTER WITH MILLIE AND MABEL):

  1. Let's Go Outside on a 6' Leash or the 15' long line,  NOTE:  I AM PRACTICING THIS INSIDE WITH RIGATONI AROUND THE GIRLS.  THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE HARD OUTSIDE WITH OTHER DOGS AROUND, BUT SEE IF YOU CAN TRY IT.  

  2. Still working sits first command outside.  He did well this week, as 3 sets of 4 in a row only took about 3 minutes.

  3. Still sit stays outside.  This took 15 minutes to get 4 in a row, 1 minute sit stays around the girls. I want to get this to less than 7 minutes. Note how I am using let's go outside to have the leash become loose around the girls. 

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