Monday, June 29, 2009

Training notes, 062909

All of the dogs were affected by the return of the heat this week, but it appears to be more noticable with the the younger dogs.  Please remember to offer more water and more bathroom breaks during the hot weather! 

As discussed previously, Deacon is going out on a prong collar so we can (hopefully) minimize handler sensitivity.  Will wait to see his WPR report.

Sally went to work on Saturday with WPR Dawn, was excellent, no problems.  She is working on directed retrieve and is able to fetch a folder piece of paper without punctures or slobber.  :)  She is also working on getting used to the GL.

JC is doing extremely well, nice attention, nice heel position.  I worked with Chris on weaning her off of so much food and getting her to recognize the verbal cues from her handler.  WPR Brian took her out for the first time this week and said she did well.  Hooray for you both!