This Human needs to Re-Learn Her Loose-Leash walking skills
goals are mainly a huge joke to me unless I re-visit them daily.
I composed a publish in January about my dog training goals for 2015 as well as haven’t believed about them since.
Kínos.
My goals requirement to be easier than that, so here’s an concept for all of us:
Write down 3 dog-related goals for the remainder of September.
Ez az. There’s only, what, two weeks left in the month? Ez tökéletes.
We can compose down the exact same goals or different goals for October, when we get there.
My September dog training goals
My dog is a 9.5-year-old black lab mix. You’ll see these are more about training ME than training my dog.
Goal #1: stop tugging on the leash.
Úgy van. Nekem.
This hooman needs to re-learn her loose-leash walking skills.
I’m constantly tugging Ace along lately. Not in a mean or harsh method as well as not to “correct” him. I’m just pulling him away from sniffing things as well as trying to get him to move faster.
You understand what occurs when you constantly tug on the leash?
The dog learns to ignore ALL your verbal commands as well as he gets desensitized to the tugging too.
Basically my dog ignores me.
He ignores me since I’ve been ignoring him. Sad, right?
So, my goal is to walk without tugging on the leash at all, only if I requirement to do so for security reasons.
Instead, I’m going to:
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talk to my dog (Wow! What a concept!)
carry treats
reward him for looking at me
randomly phone call him or ask him to sit or “watch”
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You know, all that fundamental stuff I should be doing anyway!
Goal #2: teach my dog a new “trick.”
The reason this is important is because:
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tricks are fun!
teaching something new encourages my senior guy to keep learning
it provides us something to work on together
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Ace as well as I plateaued on our training about 7 years ago.
He understands a great deal of different techniques as well as commands (spin, roll over, back up, crawl, speak, sing, jump, bang, etc.), however he discovered these when he was about 2 years old. He’s now 9.
I can’t believe of a simple, adorable technique to teach him that he doesn’t already know. Does anyone have a innovative idea?
I may attempt to teach him to put his toys away, which is not precisely simple however would be difficult for us.
3. Drive my dog to a park, store (or anywhere!) when per week.
Because the park makes my dog so happy!
Ace can’t go for long walks anymore. One mile is about his limit, which means we mainly walk around the block.
I can tell my dog is not extremely excited for these walks. They’re boring. or not worth the effort.
HOWEVER, our town welcomes dogs quite much everywhere – stores, bars, coffee shops, restaurants – as well as we have the dog beach, tracks as well as parks.
Plus, my dog is one of those rock-solid dogs you can take anywhere as well as he won’t react. nothing fazes him. So many people would like to have a dog they can take anywhere!
Our choices are unlimited.
So my goal is to drive my dog to the beach in replace of our walk at least one morning per week as well as to drive him to one more random location sometime over each weekend. This might be someplace my hubby Josh as well as I are already visiting or it might be a location selected particularly for Ace.
I’ll publish these trips on Instagram. comply with us here.
So there you have it.
My September goals are:
1. No tugging on the leash (from the HOOman!)
2. teach my dog a new trick
3. go to a new location each week
In the comments, let me know:
What are your dog-training goals for September or October?
Also, any type of concepts for adorable techniques or commands I might teach my senior guy?
Thank you to Puppy Leaks for inspiring me to re-think my dog training goals. Jen composed about her 5 training goals for fall.
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