Week 4 Observations and Reasoning of What I want you Working on

 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, who both love him.  They are older though and don't want 24/7 puppy.  So if you are around Marvel and/or Micah, working on these things around them first will go a long way (or friends or anything in a low distraction sort of setting).

Regarding jumping on people, I saw this twice (in a really not acceptable way).  Otherwise in low distractions, he was pretty good not jumping on me and Robert.  It happened the first time, when Foxie was with me outside on ecollar, and I released the dogs to greet Robert.   Foxie jumped up high into his face.   Also he did this when Robert let Foxie out to see Micah.  The solution are the same thoughts on the homework and the thoughts above on Foxie's overly nippy reaction when a dog says "no" to play.  Unless I have it different than you have observed, those dogs are just trying to create their space from Foxie and are not necessarily aggressive (though this could certainly cause a real ugly aggressive response).  That is the main reason you want to bring this under control.


Above are some of my thoughts on this on video.  You need a really reliable sit (four out of five times without correction) to be able to most easily get him ready for not jumping.  If Foxie has a reliable controllable sit (that has been practiced to a standard), then his front feet are on the ground in distractions and if he is reliably doing the command he will not jump.  Same thing with let's go, which is spotty when distractions are around.  I did practice let's go on ecollar though, with the limited time I had in a separate training session with sit on ecollar (which is also fairly hard in distractions).  This is why I am asking you to work in low distractions in between, because it needs to be built up from there.

If you get reliability in low distractions, it will be easier for me to possibly practice in higher distractions when he comes back.    The goals and performance are what needs to be paid attention to.

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