YAY Art and Talon!!!! How did he do at class???
I'm so tired of Jari being a boy. He's gross. He licks and chatters CONSTANTLY. I brought him over to my friend's house and she has two intact females (neither is in season or is going in to season obviously) and he just would NOT leave them alone. I thought he would maybe like run and play like a normal dog, but no. Her one dog would do very light corrections that Jari ignored, and her other just didn't care what he was doing. I really hope this phase ends one day :/
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Boy dogs are disgusting. lol Talon is like that with Art, it's disgusting! I keep redirecting when he starts going near, but it's only barely declining the behavior.
How old is Jari again? Talon's around 19months so I don't think it's going to end *cries*
Class went great!
We did a "gauntlet" thing were basically Talon had to stay with me as we walked through a "hallway" and back full of dogs on either side all playing with toys or moving from side to side fast and one dog that moved across his path. Both of which are big triggers for him, but he did great, barely looked at the dogs! ^_^ The gauntlet changed for each dog, so that was kind of fun as well.
Also, Talon's instructor approached us after class to see if we wanted to participate in her private class afterwards. It was a BAT training session with a dog that was in Talon's previous class and the instructor thought Talon would be a great dog to work with and she's noted I had great control/communication with him and knew when he was going over threshold. She had a stuffed dog and another dog she could use, but the dog she was working with didn't care about the stuffed dog. The other dog she had got a bit unnerved at other dogs barking at it so she didn't want to stress it out. She also needed a dog that would stare at the other dog a bit, which Talon can do lol
I was worried about Talon reacting, but she said watch him and if we feel uncomfortable in any way move away, hide behind the tree to calm Talon down and let her know. So I decided to do it, and it was great.
Talon was perfect. I'd have him LAT just long enough for the other dog to see the eye contact and than he'd look back at me like we worked with. The other dog was really making a lot of progress, which was cool to see. The other dog only had a reaction (barking/growling) once and that was the very beginning when she was trying to show the owners how to do it and where not to go. Talon handled that great.
We got a huge bag of really cool grain free treats out of it too ^_^ She also said we did great, if we'd ever like to help her out and learn more about BAT we might be able to come up with an arrangement for payment of some kind (like a free class) so that's awesome.
*(edit* two pics of Talon at class, he said "relaxing is hard work" lol