Walking | Doxie News Dachshund Blog

I haven’t been posting much over the last few days because I’ve been incredibly busy. Kody has been so helpful. He’s stopped barking and growling at every critter that walks by outside and he’s let me work without interruption. This is amazing. I’m so thankful. In return, now that he walks on a loose leash [...]

I’m really proud of myself for picking up on this attention situation with Kody. By rewarding him for paying attention to me, we now have darn near perfect walks. It’s really amazing, but also a little scary how frighteningly difficult it was to get here (and we still have more to do!) When I first [...]

It’s a sign of how long it takes to learn to train a dog, and also our slow but steady success that I have so many posts on this subject. I have a difficult time coming up with distinct post titles. Today we had our most pleasant walk ever. I realize that as I’m teaching [...]

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 [...]

Our move has been postponed for a few days while some cleaning is done. It was supposed to be done earlier, but for various reasons wasn’t. However, I have the keys and walked Kody over tonight. He was very excited by all the new smells and we played games and did tricks for treats in [...]

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. [...]

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