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THESE ARE THE BEGINNING NOTES I GAVE YOU FOR TRAINING, AS WE ARE STARTING AT THE FOUNDATION EXERCISES FOR THE THINGS YOU WANT FOR FOXIE TO DO.     NOTE 1:  ALL TRAINING SHOULD BE DONE WITH TRAINING COLLAR AND TRAINING LEASH ON (EXCEPT WHEN YOU ARE WORKING OFF LEASH WITH THE ELECTRONIC COLLAR) . NOTE 2:   DO NOT LEAVE METAL TRAINING COLLAR OR TRAINING SLIP LEAD ON WHEN YOU ARE NOT ACTIVELY TRAINING YOUR DOG. NOTE 3:  PLEASE PUT ON YOUR METAL TRAINING COLLAR CORRECTLY.  ALSO BE SURE TO HOLD THE LEASH CORRECTLY. This is a link to a leash article on our business blog.  Leashes How to Hold Them and How to Fold Them . NOTE 4:  START EVERYTHING AT THE BEGINNING IN ENVIRONMENTS AND WITH EQUIPMENT THAT ARE EASY FOR YOU.   YOU WANT TO GET COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT FOXIE HAS LEARNED AND HOW TO HANDLE FOXIE IN LOW DISTRACTIONS FIRST, SO THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE IN MORE COMPLICATED OR HIGHER DISTRACTIONS LATER. NOTE 5:...

 When Foxie came here on his three week, we were focused on getting him ecollar trained and the steps to get him there, which included a foundation (which was not being as focused on).  Now with your goals of him not jumping, pulling on the leash, and nail clipping (which we did not get to training wise or clipping wise), you are going to need to focus on the foundation skills.  I am recommending that you focus on practicing these on the manual metal training collar and leash mostly inside until I see Foxie next. As to my thoughts on Foxie reactions to dogs reacting aggressively.  I only saw it a couple of times, and that was when Foxie wanted to play and an older dog was done.   You really need to manage Foxie not going up to dogs (in an obnoxious way) with let's go on ecollar and sit stay who are not going to appreciate the "enthusiasm" of Foxie.  In that way, you will keep him out of trouble.  I worked on this with him around Marvel and LaLa, w...