Man, this has been a busy couple of weeks. Today I had the first meeting with the trainer. It was awesome. I knew that Kody’s issues were complex, he’s not aggressive, he’s not afraid, he’s something else. It’s not like he’s doing bad behaviors, he’s just being himself.
The trainer totally picked up on that, and I was so happy that she did. She accurately described Kody as “anxious”. I had never used that word, but it was perfect to describe Kody. I didn’t do my usual things to calm Kody down, and boy did he put on a show for her. He wanted her attention and he wasn’t going to settle for anything less.
I’ll talk about this a lot more later, but when we did start to work with him it was amazing. In a very short time Kody did things I’d only dreamed of. He was looking up at us just waiting for another command. And he loved it.
I will say this, we actually use even more treats than I had been using before. But we switched a lot of it to really good high quality food.
Today gave me hope, not only did I see that we would be able to solve our issues, I saw a dog who loved to train. I knew this about Kody, but today I saw just how much he loves it, and I saw how if I could learn this stuff, it was going to be a breeze with Kody.