Getting back on track

Well, there hasn't been much to write about during their training sessions at home these past few days. I'm pretty sure my timing has been off. Either they're overexcited and can't focus OR they're too tired from running and playing to actually focus.

Kali and Tina went to training class last night. Most of the work was on getting your dog to actively seek your attention and 'touch'.

Touch was fun. My girls normally act as though luring is a trick to break a stay or a leave it or something like that... It should be fun to work with all four of them on 'moving touches'.

We worked some more on 'stand'. I have to admit, I'm really jealous of those with larger dogs. It looks so easy to teach larger dogs 'stand'. Then again, most little dogs get taught 'stand' on a table. I should try that.

I need to work more on Kali's reactiveness. I can't help but laugh at her though. She LLW with perfect attention, then turns her head, barks at the other dogs and turns right back to me with perfect attention, as though nothing happened. This time, it was a white, standard poodle that kept setting her off. (I want to keep track of these things just to see if there's any sort of pattern.)

Tina was off her game. I think her leg was still hurting her. She spent ALOT of time with her ears pinned back and moving very slowly. I'm not sure what I can practice with her that doesn't involve her moving around much...