Obedience Training 4/11

Location:  Neighborhood and Park
Duration: 1.5 hours
Training Aids: Flat collar, 20 ft lunge line, and kibble/freeze dried chicken

Qiva was worked on her flat collar and a 20 ft lunge line. We worked on basic obedience without having a training type collar on.

What she did well:

• Heeled better than I thought she would. She needed reminders but stayed in the heeling position around 80% of the time
• Long distance sit stay
• Long distance down stay

What needs work: 

• Recall under distractions. She has about a 50/50 recall right now when distractions are added. As we went around the park I let her have all 20 feet to sniff around then would recall her randomly. With a higher rate of reinforcement she was doing much better by the end of the session

She did much better on heeling and listening without a training collar than I thought she would. We made noticeable progress by the end of our walk.