Dog Training, Slow and Consistent
I took Lacey on our morning walk at 6am. The routine these days is to walk for a while, do a little training, then finish the walk. Inside the house, we have breakfast. She then goes in her crate while I go to the gym.
She’s getting the training, even with just a few minutes a day. I reinforce what she knows and sometimes teach her something new. She’s got “stay” and “come” now, on a 6′ leash. Next will be to get a longer leash and continue working them. Eventually, I’ll work with her off-lead, but not yet.
Today I introduced “go home”. All I did was when we got done with the walk and got up on the front porch, I said “Lacey, good go home.” I’ll do this every time we walk up on the front porch. Eventually she’ll associate them and when I give the command from somewhere else, she’ll clue in.
I love this dog.
Anna