Progress and Setback

Wally and Bean keep me warm while I nap.

Wally has made great progress with his training. He is starting to walk very nicely on a leash, not pulling and staying beside me. He knows sit, down, shake, stand and can target on command (touch nose to hand). We are starting to work on heeling. The setback is that I have to put off taking Wally to work with me for a while. Wally really despises being in a crate and howled, whined and barked the whole doggy nap time. The doggy day camp manager is very kind and is giving me great tips on working with Wally. She was saying the sad thing is that it's obvious that someone had literally thrown him into a crate using a lot of force. I know for sure that it wasn't his foster mom who took wonderful care of him and truly cared about Wally's well being. Wally waltzed right into a crate for me but snapped at one of the other day care workers when she attempted to crate him later. He had gotten himself so worked up that he also snapped at me when I closed the crate door. Wally will now stay calmly in his crate while eating, dh and I have started feeding Wally in his crate.

Bean will now come consistently when you call him, he loves clicker training. Bean is also strong willed and will try to pretend that he doesn't see me giving him hand signals to sit when we are outside. I stood still with him and didn't repeat the command or signal, he finally realized that we weren't going to move until he sat. I wished that I had timed him the first time we did this exercise, I'm sure that it was a good five minutes.