| Larry, yes, I walked Cody off the field after the "recall" lesson and gave him lots of praise for nice walking. Probably late, but he got it. And I didn't even try the recall with him for a day, just fun things and things he did well. He's back to doing a bounding recall.
#1 was berating me for "supporting his avoidence" by stopping the lesson. Not that he even knew those terms - after all, he says this is positive training.
I'll work more with Cody, of course, including leash corrections. I'll read the thread on learned helplessness to see if there is something else to do.
I was somewhat leery of "police" training. I will say that pre-Hassen, on the "traditional" training, #2 used tons of praise and fair corrections. I think he was REALLY having fun with Cody then. Cody sure seemed to be having fun with him, too. |