Morgan's Training

I took Morgan with me to my class a little early this evening. One of my new students was already there working her Aussie. When I took Morgan out of the car, I put on her prong collar. She made a couple of feeble attempts at pulling on the lead but remembered the collar and decided not to. We played a couple of attention games. Did a tiny bit of healing. We played tug and I tossed around the tug toy. She went after it and brought it back once. After that she wouldn't bring it back if I tossed it.



Here's the funny thing. At home, she annoys me continuously by bringing me a toy to throw for her. I suppose that she is just like her biological mother who only wants to do things when SHE wants to do it. However, I don't think that is the case so much with Morgan. I truly think that she doesn't understand the game. I'm hoping this problem will be solved when I finish teaching the fetch. I really need to get to it, though. I've been dragging and dragging my feet on this one. That's because I still don't have a plan for her training and I really need to sit down and do that. I have a few days off next week when I can probably spend a couple of hours really mapping out her training plan.



I do want to brag. In my novice class, my students encouraged me to get Morgan out and see if she could do a Novice routine. I told them how horrible she was in Pre-Novice. But I did take her out and put on her prong collar and took out her string cheese and we went into the ring. She did some AMAZING heeling both on and off leash. Of course, her stand for exam was perfect and even her recall was fabulous. So she made a liar out of me. But we all laughed when I pointed out the I had food AND a prong collar on her.

Morgan had the last laugh, however. While I took off her prong collar, I failed to take off her leash before putting her into her crate in the car. When I got home (15 minutes later) the entire handle had been chewed off her leash.