social and clicker training

Everything is still going super well!

Yesterday we were going in to Luleå, which is a little bigger than Kalix. It was a lot of people and cars and bikes and everything. Aila is in a "everythings scary" period, but by the end of the day she smelled and went up to strangers and wasn't scared of anything. It was prom-night for the students. So there were hundreds of people, sports cars with loud noises, dogs.... It's funny 'cause she's not scared of any loud noises, or machines, cars or trucks. But when people are coming up to her, or when dogs pass by, she has to bark and be scared. But as I said, by the end of the day she had changed. So now we're going to go more often to town and hopefully all that will pass..

Today we've been having a clicker training session and Aila is doing so well! She's already proposing lots of things like sit, down, give her paw, rolling, barking, jumping. It's really fun, and as soon as I capture a movement with the clicker, she repeats it straight away. She really understood how it's working. I also managed to get her to walk on heel a few paces...

Vazy is quite slow and disobedient at the moment. I don't know why, but I think she's never been so slow to come when I'm calling, and she's sneaking to the neighbour, sneaking in to the house and out.. Things that she knows she's not allowed to do, is it to get attention? It's hard to stay calm when you know she knows all the commands, but is disobedient by purpose. Cause she's never been like this. But today and yesterday I made some training with the clicker and some toys, and then she was doing really good as usual. It's just with the important basics that she's like that... It's annoying, I even caught her sneaking to the neighbour and in to the house. Had to get angry, but after that she has been better... With her it's really important not to let her do exactly what she wants, then she becomes a monster!

We also leave them alone everyday, and Vazy is not barking anything when she's with Aila!! That's great!!

Everyday we go down to the sea, and the dogs get to run and play in the water. Aila didn't like the water from the beginning, but today it's been really warm, so she was happy to run and play with me and vazy.

Mathieu has gone home, so I'll put some pictures from when he was here.....