Ok, Kiko, as promised, we'll focus a bit on you in this blog. But forgive me if I mention Poni once in a while. After all, he's doing so well.
So we've been working on "stay" with Kiko so help build up the amount of time he can stay seated during times of high excitement. Say is broken up into three components that are worked on separately. The first component we're starting with is Duration (the amount of time he can hold the position).
I do this by rewarding him periodically...frequently at first until he gets the idea. As he gets better, I'm going to space out the intervals between when he's getting the rewards. He's only going to get rewards when he's in the stay and, when he is released, it's going to be a nice calm release. I don't want him to anticipate a really exciting release because it would be hard for him to hold his stay. So far it's really paying off! He is sitting through his whole meal prep. It won't be long before he is ready to try meal prep with Poni.
We tried to get some good play in before it got too hot. We certainly wanted to take advantage of the fact that Poni was actually playing with other dogs.
Something that we discovered over the last couple of days is that Poni does a little bit better with the other dogs when he has a toy in his mouth that he can shake.
He is doing much, much better with the other dogs (sorry, Kiko, I can't help talking about him).
It was another hot day so we quickly migrated indoors.
Poni did well with sharing space most of the time. On occasion, he would get a little cranky if someone approached him when he was sleeping but we are working on that.
Kiko, on the other hand, is happy to have his space invaded.
A lot of napping happening today with all the heat.
No comments:
Post a Comment