Sanya is three months old. She is very diligent and intelligent so I’ve decided to add several new elements. First of all for the first time a soft puppy’s dog-collar was put on her, and it’s a new experience for her. She feels a little bit nervous but the collar doesn’t hinder our work. Sanya only gets distracted from time to time to scratch her neck. We already made a significant progress with the commands “Beside me”, “Come to me” and “Lie down” and now I can perfect them giving tasty bits only when Sanya fulfills them excellently.
Secondly to make our training more exciting I decided to teach her how to fulfill the “Snake” element. It’s very easy: I put my feet apart and Sanys passes between them, and in such a way we make several steps. For some minutes it was a real torture – both of us tried it for the first time, but then Sanya managed to do it correctly earlier than me. And then both of us managed to do it correctly – we made two steps! If you’d like to train your dog to make this element don’t forget that at first you should give an incentive to him/her even when the element was not fulfilled correctly so that he/she wouldn’t lose confidence and a desire to study.
Look, how we've managed to make the task for a small puppy more complicated.
Sanya knows a lot already - she can lie down, be patient and move for a long time at the command "Beside me".
Each lesson begins from the repetition of the previous skills - it's important for securing of already known.
But Sanya is growing up and starts to make a game out of each command.
She likes to work and precisely this makes a problem as Sanya tries to fulfill each command excellently and from her point of view it means to fulfill it as gaily as possible.
Look how she jumps at the command "Beside me". We should fight with it very carefully encouraging her only when she walks and not jumps.
Sanya fulfills the command "Lie down" gloriously, I can even move away for a considerable distance, but there's also some difficulties. As soon as we add new commands or make the already known ones more complicated some commands become "lost".
So if you mark Sanya after command "Patience" is rather slow with the fulfillment of the command "To me" which is her favourite.
