Casey's First Walk Without Chasing a Single Car!!!!
We've been working on it extra hard lately cause I've had some extra time (read I was laid off) and we are getting a second doggy and we wanted her to meet some semblance of a gentleman and not a crazed adrenaline junky car herder. After we settled on a strategy it took about 6 weeks, and from about week 3 he had a better then 50% success rate but today was the first perfect day.  |
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YEH CASEY 
Good job MOM  |
| So nice to hear hard work paid off!! |
| Fantastic!!!! |
Perfect walk!!! That must be a great relief!  |
| Good job!
I have a couple of tricks I can show you tomorrow that might help  |
That would be great  Casey's really looking forward to company, after he's been outside for a bit, he keeps looking bored and a bit sad and I keep thinking "You just wait!" |
| I'm very proud of both you & Casey. Congrats on sticking with it and putting in the effort it takes to train him. It's so rewarding when they "get it" and do what you want them to do. Bravo to you both! |
| Way to go!!!!!
I think we are doing to start using a clicker on Devyn she does the same thing! Glad to know it worked for a fellow car lunger |
| For anyone else who has the same problem, this is what finally worked for us: I brought him to a soccer field near us that bordered against one of the main roads through the neighborhood and we found a distance that he could ignore the cars at (started at about 20 feet) and when he did, clicked and treated.
Our trainer gave good advice: 3 consecutive success's make it harder, three consecutive failures make it easier and we worked our way up to the sidewalk. For 3 weeks we walked back and forth on the same 30 meter stretch of the field that bordered on the road for about 40-60 minutes a day. I think I may have partly bored him into submission. Once we got to the sidewalk we started to explore the neighborhood. I am so proud of him. And very very grateful we learned about the clicker at obedience. |
Whoo Hoo! Good for you!  |
 Great news! |
| congratulations to both of you!!! |
| i wonder if i could get my 2 boys to ever not lundge at cars might try yout clicker.. |
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