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i couldnt find the old forum that i was talking on....so i'll start here.
connie (the dog trainer) came over yesterday. from 3pm-4:40pm we were outside training the dogs to heel, sit, down. it was cool. ellie and gruffi-WHO ALWAYS PULL, were actually heeling. it was really neat. and people were walking by and none of them lunged. that was neat. they didnt even bark.
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yay! i asked her if she could evaluate simba(my brothers dog) and she said sure. so we go to my brother house...we all knew simba was aggressive---anyway, so simba tried to bite connie a couple of times. she totally recommended that by brother should get rid of him because he has children in the house. simba looked sooo mean. which means that he cant be around people or our dogs ever again.
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it sucks.
anyway--with our training. the girls are on martingaile collars and gruffi is on a choke collar. i told connie that i tried walking sprite on the collar and she just dragged and acted as though i was abusing her...you know what connie said "poor baby" but sarcastic. she took sprites leash, dragged her for 5 minutes--after that--- BOOM-- sprites walking perfect like she used to. she was doing the turns perfect, sitting automatically, it was awesome. and if you all remember my story about ellie not doing a down (the trainer had to work for 10 minutes and ellie finally did it)...anyway, so we're outside, she tells ellie to heel, then she tells ellie to sit, and then a down--SHE DID IT!! ellie is soo stubborn too. ellie coughed once--that was when we first walked out of the house, but then after that--ellie was corrected maybe 20 times(by cynthia) (very lightly) and then that was it--ellie has a problem heeling by sewers. after the trainer dragged sprite and corrected her a few times for heeling, i had to do the same thing, so i was walking sprite, i literally corrected her 3 times. it was really neat. and when you correct your dog, you do the correction when you say "no" and then you tell the command again. gruffi got corrected more than 100 times yesterday. he's really hard to focus. but by the end of training---he was perfect. my mom was watching from inside the house and she was amazed.
connie (the dog trainer) came over yesterday. from 3pm-4:40pm we were outside training the dogs to heel, sit, down. it was cool. ellie and gruffi-WHO ALWAYS PULL, were actually heeling. it was really neat. and people were walking by and none of them lunged. that was neat. they didnt even bark.
anyway--with our training. the girls are on martingaile collars and gruffi is on a choke collar. i told connie that i tried walking sprite on the collar and she just dragged and acted as though i was abusing her...you know what connie said "poor baby" but sarcastic. she took sprites leash, dragged her for 5 minutes--after that--- BOOM-- sprites walking perfect like she used to. she was doing the turns perfect, sitting automatically, it was awesome. and if you all remember my story about ellie not doing a down (the trainer had to work for 10 minutes and ellie finally did it)...anyway, so we're outside, she tells ellie to heel, then she tells ellie to sit, and then a down--SHE DID IT!! ellie is soo stubborn too. ellie coughed once--that was when we first walked out of the house, but then after that--ellie was corrected maybe 20 times(by cynthia) (very lightly) and then that was it--ellie has a problem heeling by sewers. after the trainer dragged sprite and corrected her a few times for heeling, i had to do the same thing, so i was walking sprite, i literally corrected her 3 times. it was really neat. and when you correct your dog, you do the correction when you say "no" and then you tell the command again. gruffi got corrected more than 100 times yesterday. he's really hard to focus. but by the end of training---he was perfect. my mom was watching from inside the house and she was amazed.
