[jaden]

I have to say after reading this forum, I have made some mistakes in his training. I am so used to my older dog responding to me immediately that it was frustrating when he would not. Now I have learned some tricks from other members. I take him on a run for about 15 min and then both dogs together on a walk so that it wears him out alittle first. He's more receptive to my commands and not so worried about wanting to play with Jaden the whole time. We practice commands about 5 times a day now in a room all by ourselves instead of twice a day in the middle of the house with all the chaos from the kids (which was really distracting)

Just common sense things I should have known but did not have to do with Jaden. He is much more head strong and will take more time and classes than my girl did. Like I said, if we do not pass the test the first time we will continue in other classes the facility has to offer, such as agility, tracking, etc..and he can become a well rounded pooch and then we will try again!