Group Puppy Class 10-24-2021

Puppy Group Class. Ace, the Scottish Terrier and the Labs (my Lee Pack) are all on Stays for this photo shoot.

 

The Lee Pack

 practice post

Daphne and her puppy she bred

 I did the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Temperament Testing on these pups for Daphne. This one, we called her 'green collar female G/D' tested beautifully.

Today, Daphne and her puppy had their first puppy lesson with myself and Sugar.

She is D.O.N.E!

10-18-2021 1st puppy lesson with Gayle/Olive

Finally, I got to meet Olive the new puppy. She is a very soft dog, most likely would have tested out, temperament wise, at mainly 4's with the Volhard Puppy Aptitude Temperament Test (PATT). Typically, 4's are eager to please, easy to train only requiring a light, consistent training hand, and make excellent family dogs/Therapy Dogs.

I had a visiting student play a new game called 'Round Robin Recall' game. This is an excellent game to play when there are multiple people living in the home. Always this is done on a ck cord as a command given MUST be obeyed.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT PHOTO. Why? Because you can see the reach of Olive's front legs extending to her nose at the same time you can see the extension of her rear leg nearly to the tip of her tail. This is a stride indicative of good conformation and that her front shoulder and rear structure angles are good-excellent. Why does this matter as this puppy will never go into the Breed Ring? It matters because good structure means a healthy dog. VERY important.

EXCELLENT as Olive is doing 'The Walk' and learning to 'read' Gayle's body mechanics.

Finally, we did some 7-10 week old puppy work introducing new surfaces (the ramp, the elevated Training Table and the multiple training surfaces/steps). 
Command used? "Let's Go" to begin, the "Step-Hup", the "Sit", then "Step-off", then "Turn" and repeat, repeat, repeat.  
I use these commands daily with my adult trained dogs for loading INTO a car or loading OUT of a car or anywhere else.  Mighty handy.

October 2021 Dawn/Nellie get a Lee Pack run and do Balance work + Stack Stand

Nellie is a very smart young puppy and is making excellent progress. She has nearly aged out of the Mannerly Puppy Course so this Lee Pack Run, the Balance work, and the Stack Stand are for a puppy that has advanced past the "Sit" and "Wait" commands

It WAS cold that day for sure, but we had a blast! And lookie there...Nellie HAS learned how to approach a mature dog appropriately because of the prior Pack lessons. She approaches Sugar from the side which is a respectful position for a younger dog to approach an older dog. She no longer approaches Sugar from the front of his face which is confrontational in the dog world.

LOVE these photos!

One of my FAVORITE photos!

Then, time to run with Boaz and Redd for the first time.

See the orange ck cord Nellie is dragging? This allows a puppy freedom of movement as the handler has total control by simply stepping on the ck cord and calling the dog. Also trains a puppy how to step OUT of a line on its body/leg and prepares them for the FOUNDATION Course Longe Line training and the off-leash training. 

Redd CLEARLY put Nellie in her place for daring to approach her inappropriately. All puppies need to learn this life lesson from older, mature, well-trained dogs. Why? So the puppy learns to 'read' another dog's communication to stay away.  Especially critical life lesson for puppies that are 7 weeks old to 16-18 weeks old. If the lesson isn't learned then, correctly, the puppy grows up to become inappropriate and disrespectful to other dogs which can get it bitten, cause dog fights, and in some cases, the puppy retaliates and becomes aggressive. ALL of this is avoided by having older, mature well-trained dogs take on the vital education of training a rude puppy with Pack Dynamics. 

Then we did some Balance work on metal bleachers.

1st effort by Dawn/Nellie. Here hand is to high on the line, needs to be on collar or just above collar to support learning puppy.  

Roxanne demo's HOW to do Balance work with a puppy to train the puppy to have confidence and trust in handler's hands and commands.  

Then, Dawn does Balance work and her hand positions stabilize Nellie. Much better.

Finally, a VERY tired Nellie got a smidge of extra work accomplished by doing the Stack Stand. 

  

And Nellie is simply exhausted, you can see the fatigue in her body and in her eyes. Time to quit, call it a good training session, and take her home to do Quiet Time. After a training session like this one, Nellie is ready for Quiet Time.

And here's Nellie!

 

And the videos:

Puppy Recall: Whoa! Working on the Stack 'Stand'