It was such a nice day today we spent most of it outside. We were happy to have many friends here to entertain us and help with our training. Thunder is doing such a nice job of being really attentive and responsive even when there are other dogs present.
Her automatic sits for greetings are coming along really nicely. She is rarely jumping on people and she's starting to offer a sit for a lot of other things she wants. In the morning she was so excited and vocal when I was getting ready to let her out of her crate. Now she is still a bit excited but calms down quickly ands sits to be let out.
She's been enjoying a good game of tug now and then.
And she's responding to "drop" very well...even when other dogs have a hold of the tug as well. That is not an easy task for a dog!
She is progressing well with "Leave it" too. She needs an occasional reminder but, for the most part, she's avoiding the items on the ground.
She's now progressed to leaving food that is placed right in front of her or placed on her.
Chicken strips are really tempting but she manages it well.
Thunder likes to bark a lot in play so we've tried several things to curb that a bit. I finally found what works well for her and so we practiced that a lot today. It's always nice to have a lot of tools in your toolbox so you have a lot of things to try to find the right thing for each individual dog.
So now she can share a sniff instead of sharing barks. That's so much easier on the ears!
Drink up, Thunder, there is more sunshine to soak up and more training to be done.
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