As problems with her knees mean we can't continue with agility I have decided I need to do "something" with Molly as she is a young dog with an active brain which really needs work or the devil will make work for idle paws!!
I therefore enrolled us both on a clicker training course at Learning about Dogs so we could try to improve our skills together. The other dogs on the course were 4 greyhounds, a collie and a terrier cross and Molly was initially a bit freaked out by the greyhounds and decided she needed to do much hiding under my chair. Despite this things went well when we started work and by halfway through the day she was reduced to occasional glances at the scary dogs.
We covered luring, timing and delivering of treats and had a go at both free-shaping and shaping with an object all of which went well a and we learned and more importantly enjoyed learning together. The next part of the course is 3rd March.
We have been putting our new found clicker skills to good use teaching Molly a solid walk backwards which is one of her assigned physio exercises for this month.
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