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Tonight Kody and I went on a longer walk using what I have recently learned about having Kody pay attention to me. I’m getting better at telling when Kody has almost lost attention or has completely lost attention. My goal is to reward before he completely loses attention and lengthen the period of time before [...]

This new place is great in many ways, but Kody has some adjustments to make. In the old place our deck was on the second floor, so only the occasional squirrel would show up. But here, we have a great big sliding door and a big patio then a small yard, then the water. It [...]

I’m mostly packed up with just a few essentials left unpacked. I’ve been packing a few boxes every night at which point Kody usually chooses to go in his crate. I think he doesn’t like the commotion. He comes back out when I’m done packing and today even stayed out while I packed a box. [...]

I needed a new treat to give Kody, so I thought steak might do the trick. I got the cheapest steak they had and fried it up in some Pam. It was thin so it didn’t take long and it’s also really lean. Then I chopped it up into bits for training. It worked, Kody [...]

The stress of the move really got to me yesterday. I’m also working on some particularly difficult code for a client that requires a lot of concentration. And to top it off, Kody was especially barky yesterday. He barked angrily at some runners who ran by behind some bushes yesterday. It also seemed as if [...]

Now that I have a good deal more control over Kody, I’m starting to ask more advanced questions. For instance, when I know Kody is probably going to see an object and bark, do I click to be sure he won’t or do I let him potentially bark and then walk away from the object [...]

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