Today's training session

This morning it was rather cold but thankfully dry and sunny when Kimmy and I drove to Reimberg for our training session with Carole.

First we talked about how Kimmy did last week during our walks with the command "weiter", which I think she took to very nicely, then we went out to the back yard and Carole introduced a new command "Here". It is followed by a hand signal (hand to the side, with a treat), and a few steps backwards, to motivate Kimmy to come.

Kimmy is a natural "follower" so it was not difficult to make her come, but we needed to make sure she actually knew what the new command meant, and what exactly she was supposed to do.

Then we went in the woods to practice and "condition" her to accept this command. She walked on the long line nicely, didn't pull at all, and Carole told me I made quite a progress with her with on leash walking (that was nice to hear!) :)

Kimmy responded to the "Here" command about 8 times out of 10. If there was something in the forest that caught her attention, she was not as interested in coming to us, she preferred to investigate the interesting stuff first.

So my task now is to practice this at home and on walks on as many different places as possible, so that she can generalize this command to all situations, and also, to make sure my husband does the same, so she knows to follow this command from him as well, not just from me.

When we got home, Kimmy was knackered, poor thing ;) She got comfy on the sofa with a frozen Kong, and I went to my dentist appointment (got stitches out after a tooth extraction).