Meet Daisy! She’s a six-month-old Golden Retriever from Pacific Palisades, CA here for our One-Week Board and Train Program! Daisy is a friendly and playful pup! Daisy likes to jump on people all while ignoring her name. Daisy can perform a command or two, however, it is highly inconsistent. Over the next seven days, Daisy is going to learn to be a confident, brave pup through consistent, clear communication, and balanced training in areas such as at home, in the car, and in discovering new people and places. Daisy is going to learn how to do all these things on leash in a positive and balanced training environment. Through structure and consistency, Daisy will demonstrate how great a pup she can be! Stay tuned for Daisy’s one-week transformation!
Pupdate 1/12/25
Today Ms. Daisy joined me and my family for her one-week board and train. I stopped by the park on the way home to see what Ms. Daisy would be willing to do for me. She did a great job of jumping on me and not listening to anything I asked her to do. When we got home, I let her sniff and check out my house and meet my family. She was happy to meet everyone. She did try to eat some food off the ground. Next, we headed outside so that Ms. Daisy could meet Ms. Toji. They had a blast running around and meeting each other. After a little play session with the pups, I took Ms. Daisy for a walk around the neighborhood. This is so that she can get used to the sights, sounds, and scents of the neighborhood. She can be timid sometimes and then other times she is hyper-focused on birds or other people walking around. We will work on building up her confidence by being a strong leader.
When we returned from our walk, I fed Ms. Daisy her lunch and gave her some water. I let her relax in the crate for a little while to get used to the sights and sounds of her new residence for the week. She ate all her food and relaxed for a little bit. I let her play with Ms. Toji for a little bit after her midday siesta.
Later this afternoon, we will introduce the e-collar and determine what level she will be responsive to. We want the level to be as low as possible but we let her determine what level is the best. Attached is a video tutorial on the e-collar that you can reference as much as you would like to review how to use the e-collar system that will be going home with Ms. Daisy. Also, due to the short timeline, we will introduce all her commands and be off to the races for her one-week transformation!
Pupdate 1/13/25
Today Ms. Daisy and I continued to work on a review of all her commands. Yesterday evening we did work on introducing the e-collar and all of her commands. Initially, the e-collar levels were around 30 or 40 to get her attention. Today, we were around 20 which is good! I brought some of her food with me to help reward her for good behavior. She is a little resistant at times as she is getting used to the structure of being asked what to do.
We have practiced her door manners every time we get to a door. At the door, we ask her to "sit" and then we open the door. If she gets up, I close the door and have her "sit" again. She must sit there until we allow her to go through the door. This is important for her young mind in that she must now understand that she does not dictate the rules.
The above practice of having her "sit" at the door is the same strategy we use for her food manners. She must patiently sit until we allow her to eat her food with the word "break! If she gets up to go after her food, I pick up the food and reset. She must "sit" and wait until we put the food down and allow her to access the food with "break!"
For today's training, I had her work on her extended sit, extended down, and extended place. She is good at the "sit". We are still working on her "down". You can see the work you put in with her recall as she is doing well with going around me to the proper position on the "come-to-sit". We will go on a long walk this evening to reinforce her proper position in the "heel". She was in the incorrect position and tried jumping on me several times at the beginning of the training but I reset her with a command she is comfortable with, the "sit", and we resumed. I contemplated switching over to the prong collar for a few trials but I adjusted my hands and where the pressure on the collar was coming from and I was able to get a better "heel" out of her. If this continues to work, we won't need the prong collar. After today, we just practice practice, and more practice. We will start going to more public places with more distractions and asking more of her each day.
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