Lyra – 7 months – “mark” vs. “attention”

by | Mar 5, 2012 | Lyra

Lyra is now seven months old. In addition to close in attention, I’d like to have an explosive send away as well.  This is useful for retrieves, go outs/send out, articles and any work that requires the dog to look out ahead. There are two components to a good...

Lyra – Four months

by | Dec 6, 2011 | Lyra

Most of my training time with Lyra is really structured play – play that gets me the behaviors I want with maximum joy and energy. There are also a few skills that are more easily mastered when the dog is calm.  For these, I use food as the reward.  Food leads to a...