Brito: Balancing movement with control

The past few weeks I concentrated on a few things with Brito: Play with toys. That is coming along pretty well. Less good outside but hey, he’s  a baby. Play with me.  That also suffers outside, but still…we’ll get there. Retrieve.  Super!  Good boy...

Brito five months general training

Here is an eleven minute training session of Brito from this morning.  You can see a variety of things. Shaping with a dumbbell.  I normally hold it because he tends to put his feet on objects sitting on the floor.  That is not a habit that I want to encourage. (...

Lyra 4.75 months: my good dog is back – today anyway

Today I took Lyra for training with a few other trainers, and she was brilliant. She wasn’t afraid of anything.  She wasn’t hyper attracted to the other people and dogs present.  She needed very little sightseeing time before asking to work.  Her interest...

Lyra – Week 2, day 5

Today’s post was supposed to include a video of my brilliant puppy.  It didn’t turn out quite as planned. For starters, I forgot to do something with the kids.  So, predictably, they showed up within a few minutes.  Since this is not unusual and I usually...