Suzanne and Team,
Lena successfully completed all of her Lesson 1 training sessions last week. Every one of us are impressed with how wonderful Lena is and how much she seems to thoroughly enjoy 'the training'. She is a delight to work with and we all appreciate Lena's wagging tail and soft temperament.
This week is, officially, 'Week 1' of the FOUNDATION Course. This week we up the ante on working Lena against many 'distractions' (anything she finds interesting). This week Lena will do the Week 1 EXAM with each of her handlers. Lena must pass her Week 1 EXAM with each of us to go onto next week's work, the 6' leash work.
All in all, this was a great week despite a few hiccups on scheduling. Hopefully, the printed and posted weekly schedule, with handler names/phone numbers + the time/date/who/where for each training session, will streamline the process and make for an easier week.
Again, the reason Lena is doing 1-2 training sessions each day is because of her soft temperament, size, and the condition of her body. Soft dogs usually have little physical or mental stamina, so they tire out quickly. Doing several smaller sessions daily gives Lena much needed time to be rested for each training session and keeps her at her mental peak so the training is easy for her.
We are sure enjoying her!
Roxanne
Lena's training report from last week, the Lesson 1.
ReplyDeleteLena's handlers, including myself, Jessi, Mary, Kat and Trina, have completed their daily training reports. Those reports are listed under the section entitled, "9-16 thru 9-21 TEAM Reports: Introduction to Inverted Longe Line."
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