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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI also sometimes can’t believe how smitten I am with her! Even when she’s screeching in her crate for whatever reason. (And oh, there are many reasons). I had a rough check list of things that my perfect puppy would be; outgoing and driven and conformationally balanced, not too big but not too small, plus a fair sprinkling of attitude. She definitely ticks all those boxes! She’s also tenacious and pushy and noisy, and she does share a lot of the same personality traits as Kim, but she’s actually mostly like a little mini Mollie at the moment. Except she’s definitely still her own dog!<\/p>\n
I have to admit I’m struggling a little at the moment with things to do. I’m still doing lots of clicker tricks (currently working on back up), and continuous impulse control and distraction work. I also go out of my way to find busy places to take her for socialisation. But I feel like we should be doing more, or at least upping the work we are doing at the moment. I know I have a tendency to either baby my dogs or push them too fast, so I’m consciously trying to keep the balance right for Rio. She’s a very smart puppy though and I think she needs something a bit more challenging.<\/p>\n
I think the plan this month will be to make an real effort to work on go-ons and waits. Rio isn’t too clingy at the moment but I know Aussies have a reputation as sticky dogs, and I really don’t want that, so I think a few toy races might be apt. And since Kim has no wait and Dyl has a minimal wait, I’d really like Rio to have a proper one! It’s not the end of the world if she doesn’t (which is why I’ve been lazy about it until now) but it’s good impulse-control work anyway. It’s probably clear by now as I haven’t done any plank work, but I intend to train Rio with 2o2o contacts, so a wait will be required there.<\/p>\n
I did contemplate running contacts, but realistically it’s not possible. I have access to equipment once a week, in a class setting – not ideal for RC training! – and our garden is not large enough for a full-size contact plank so just the initial training would be difficult. I also don’t have access to a wider variety of dogwalks, so generalising the behaviour would be tricky. I am contemplating maybe<\/em> trying a running Aframe, because I really love having a RC there. This is all future work anyway, we’re not touching contacts for another few months yet!<\/p>\n The next 6 months are going to be fun! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Still can’t believe the little horror is 6 months old. I also sometimes can’t believe how smitten I am with her! Even when she’s screeching in her crate for whatever reason. (And oh, there are many reasons). I had a rough check list of things that my perfect puppy would be; outgoing and driven and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rio","category-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-Bb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"6](\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7190\/6944104527_8a8557f332.jpg\")
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