Orrin and Neuve, Day 4

Today was a very distracting day for Orrin and Neuve. There was another dog up in the training area, and the puppies just wanted to play, play, play! Neuve didn't seem too afraid of the steps today- he ran right up them without fear. He delayed a little bit coming down, but all in all, much improved. Neuve also lost his collar today, so right now he has a blue collar instead.

We worked on down today with both Orrin and Neuve. Neuve was right on task, and did very well. He also did about 7 seconds for holding his sit. We didn't work too much on come- just a couple of times with come, but Neuve did well. He stalled the first time, and came right away the second time. While Neuve was working, Orrin was in the kennel. He cried about half the time we worked, and was quiet the rest of the time, so he was a little louder than normal.

Neuve was very loud while Orrin was out working, and threw quite the temper tantrum. He quieted down with a little persuasion after I decided to get help in focusing on that, about halfway through Orrin's session. Orrin was just so distracted he couldn't even sit anymore, between the new dog up there and Neuve's noise. After I got help to deal with Neuve, he vastly improved, and stayed quite about 80% of the rest of the time.

Orrin, like I said, was very distracted. Today was not a good training day for him. He did seem to like down okay, and we did a little come, but sit was a no-go. We'll try again tomorrow.