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Ellinorianne
Champion Weim
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 890
Fur Kids: Used to have Sophie - Weimaraner |
 Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject: Love our training |
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Training at PetsMart is going so well. Today I learned how to walk with Sophie and it's so much easier and not hard on my arm. I was looking down at her rather than walking straight forward.
All I had to do was to change the walking and change how I held the leash, then when she pulled she corrected herself basically. Loved it and can't wait to take her for a walk.
Since there are only three of us we got to do individual training and Sophie learned "Leave it". She picked it up so quickly (pun intended, she ate a couple of treats on the bounce and our trainer said, oh she's a hunter). But she just picked it up so well.
I'm working on my dominance with her as well.
Wanted to share, I love our trainer. And we get ten lessons instead of 8 because of the Holidays, weird, so ten bucks a lesson is a steal! |
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GailB
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 17 Sep 2007
Posts: 1848
Location: New Brunswick,Canada
Fur Kids: Shadow 10 yr.old Black female labrador retriever. Hunter 4 yr. old weim |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome,sounds like it's going well.
Sophie is very smart.
I hope it continues to be positive for you and Sophie.
Go Sophie Go...good girl  |
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jamie8dc
Champion Weim
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 950
Location: College Station, TX
Fur Kids: Logan, Weimaraner |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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It'll only get better with time. I'm sure the worst is behind you, just keep working at it! Keep us posted, I love to hear Weim owners brag, it's a refreshing change from all the frustration and despair I hears so much, haha!   |
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AmyB
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
Posts: 1783
Location: Stevensville, Maryland
Fur Kids: Holly ~ 14 month old Weim
Roxy ~ 11 week old Jack Russell Terrier |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's wonderful! I'm so glad she is doing so well.
What training method does PetSmart use and what type of collar do you have to use or can you choose? |
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Ellinorianne
Champion Weim
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 890
Fur Kids: Used to have Sophie - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| AmyB wrote: | That's wonderful! I'm so glad she is doing so well.
What training method does PetSmart use and what type of collar do you have to use or can you choose? |
Not sure what method she is using, I should ask! We have a prong collar for walking and training and we also just have a regular collar.
Ingrid is so good with her dog, she brought her in for training today and I love how she tells her to "park it" and then puts the dogs collar in her dogs mouth and scompi, I think that's her dogs name, she walks over and lays down. It was brilliant. |
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Ms-Ryleigh
Housebroken
Joined: 19 Oct 2007
Posts: 53
Location: Tampa Bay, Fl
Fur Kids: Ryleigh (DOB-July,25 2007) |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Hey! Yeah Ryleigh is in Petsmart training right now as well and doing great! I swear sometimes I think that she already knows the commands!!! Because she just picks up everything sooo fast! I have a smart cookie on my hands.... Well so far!
I have her on a Gentle Leader now (and doing well) but I will be buying a prong collar as soon as she fills out a little more I feel that she will do better on it. She turned 5 months yesterday on X-Mas. |
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Ellinorianne
Champion Weim
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 890
Fur Kids: Used to have Sophie - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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[quote=I have her on a Gentle Leader now (and doing well) but I will be buying a prong collar as soon as she fills out a little more I feel that she will do better on it. She turned 5 months yesterday on X-Mas.[/quote]
We tried the gentle leader but it didn't do much at all so the trainer recommended the prong collar. Much better. |
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kamfam
Wise Old Weim
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 2260
Location: Cleveland, OH
Fur Kids: Glacier, Samoyed
Darby, Weimaraner
Kam, Weimaraner
9/20/06 - 6/05/08 |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Ellinorianne wrote: | | [quote=I have her on a Gentle Leader now (and doing well) but I will be buying a prong collar as soon as she fills out a little more I feel that she will do better on it. She turned 5 months yesterday on X-Mas. |
We tried the gentle leader but it didn't do much at all so the trainer recommended the prong collar. Much better.[/quote]
So proud of you for sticking it out! You're such a good mom! Keep up the good work, and as always, "keep the faith sista"!!! |
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Ellinorianne
Champion Weim
Joined: 23 Oct 2007
Posts: 890
Fur Kids: Used to have Sophie - Weimaraner |
| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| kamfam wrote: | | Ellinorianne wrote: | | [quote=I have her on a Gentle Leader now (and doing well) but I will be buying a prong collar as soon as she fills out a little more I feel that she will do better on it. She turned 5 months yesterday on X-Mas. |
We tried the gentle leader but it didn't do much at all so the trainer recommended the prong collar. Much better. |
So proud of you for sticking it out! You're such a good mom! Keep up the good work, and as always, "keep the faith sista"!!![/quote]
Ah, thank you. My husband is really helping a lot by walking her so much. It's been a struggle but it's good and bad and we had company yesterday and from one month ago at Thanksgiving, she was already jumping a lot less, biting a lots less (mouthy puppy biting) and better behaved. My relatives were impressed.
Thanks again, the encouragement here has been priceless. |
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