The week has really flown with Neeco so far, I am still in shock that I have had him only a week because it feels like it has been so much longer! He has settled back into school like a champ and is getting used to my apartment just fine (except when I take a shower and he's in his kennel). He's doing really well in his kennel otherwise, which makes me really happy and proud of him.
Since I didn't have a lot of homework to do (or at least I didn't think I did) yesterday, Batman (my old roommate) and I took Ganther (who is now with Batman) and Neeco (who Batman trained last fall) to Willow River State Park to work off some energy and just give them a little break from the normal routine. They were so good and it was so cute watching them play in the water! I worked on Neeco's recall on a long lead, which he did really well with. We then took them to the lab farm to dry off before our meeting (and get out some extra energy). Let's just say they were SUPER tired last night. Neeco slept for a lot of the meeting and when we got home he just went to my bed and slept and would want to follow me, but would be a minute or two later than me when I was moving around. Ganther apparently slept like a rock! After all of this fun, we went to the meeting. Here we learned all about the retrieve sequence and how you train a lot of the basics that our dogs "come" with. We train retrieves by making the retrieves fun! Of course, Neeco already knew how to retrieve ordinary things off the ground, so Grace and I worked on him retrieving harder things (like a credit card off of the tile ground). He did so well with it, he did break a gift card, but he also retrieved it about 5 times. He also retrieved my cell phone from the ground too! We then worked on some diabetic alert training, which Necco alerted Linda when she came around! I asked Linda to show us how to train the high and low motion for Neeco to start learning as his next step, so I will start working on that with him in the coming weeks, which I really look forward to! There was a ton of proud moments for me and all of Neeco's previous trainers yesterday, I am just so in shock and love how determined he is to do things and he has harnessed his CRAZY energy from last fall into learning more. It is truly inspiring to watch him go from a puppy who was OBSESSED with my calves after a run or any time they were bare to a dignified, well-mannered dog. It kind of just gives me insight to the fact that dogs aren't stupid, it's all in the training and the owner being able to recognize the dogs needs and being there for the dog like the dog is there for them.
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