She just loves that sleeve
Author: Sturmfalken
Indras Ears are UP!!!
Indra went Tracking
Silke Ruenz invited me to a tracking event and since I wanted to get Indra started under Silkes supervision I decided to take her instead of the other two. It was a two hour drive to get there and that is a lot for a three month old pup. Once we got there I took her out of the car. She was sleepy yet excited to see new people.
Everybody had a cup of coffee and than we went into the country site to lay our tracks. That took another 1-2 hours.
The first track was a disaster. She didn’t like to pick up the food which surprised me because usually she eats that food like a vacuum cleaner. She did not like it at all. She was literally not herself and Silke did something that they usually don’t do. We broke up. We had to. She didn’t get the connection between the track and the food so we had to break it up.
One of the guys offered me some dog sausage and I laid another track with the sausage. It’s softer and has a strong smell.
She was doing much much better but I wasn’t surprised that she had a hard time to concentrate. She’s three months old, was laying in the car for nearly five hours, it was hot outside and you can’t expect from a three months old puppy to connect the dots right away, it’s like sending a one year old into algebra classes.
Next time I’d prefer a place that isn’t to far away and where she doesn’t have to sit and wait in the car for hours. However, I was glad to have Silkes supervision, she corrected a couple of things and showed me how to do it better, so I learned something afterall.
Saturday – Dog – Training
Saturday I went to the club to train the dogs. It’s been actually a while that I went there with my old ones. I didn’t go there all winter and returned when I got Indra. I wanted Yukon to fully recover from all his fears, went to different Clubs, checked out how they worked, went on the tracking Seminar and mainly worked for myself and taught him funny tricks. He had to get rid of most of his fears. Whenever I raised my voice, he ducked. Whenever I said “Platz” (down) he would not only duck but literally fall apart. He was so scared that I’d do something bad to him. He had to get more secure around other dogs. I wanted him to play more, to be able to walk in a group of people without jumping and socialize him more.
The day my husbands Battalion had the steeple chase was our very own graduation day. I was able to walk with him in a large group of people, mainly men, without him falling apart, jumping or ducking. So he is good to go now.
This is one way to train the command “HIER!” (come!)
Zenzy sitting in the “attention” mode
(that is how I call it)
Hier! Besser, besser, besser! Hier!
(Come, better, better, better! Come!)
Hubby and Indra in the puppy class
More Puppy Cuteness
She’s a little piranha. I swear to god she’s no dog. She’s got teeth like a shark and bites like a piranha. It’s not aggression, that is not what it is. She’s playing and especially when you get down on their level they treat you like one of their own and will bite. That is when you have to redirect their biting into something useful and play with a toy.
Anyhow, here is some more of the puppy cuteness.
Can you help me to get on the couch mom?
I will behave… no biting…. I SWEAR!
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