@holmes81 - I know you were with a trainer, but that sounds like waaaaaaaaay too much in one session. Little and often - you’ll confuse and exhaust the dog trying to do everything at once. Work on one thing and make sure it’s totally nailed before introducing anything else..
Good point Dashed.
Lead work and one other thing.
Dog is very sleepy now though.
The PawFit2 arrived at the weekend. Charged it up and put it on her collar so she became used to it being added to her collar.
The app has a step counter which annoyingly you can't set to 0. Once set it notifies you that your pooch has exceeded their steps.
Did a test walk and it tracked pretty well. Well enough to get pretty close to a lost dog. To help getting closer you can turn on the alarm wcu beeps and there is also a light which flashes an led. Both of which could help when closer than gps can resolve o.
Also there is a button on the tracker which we pressed can announce various info. So we just put a phone number in. If someone finds her they press the button and can call the owners.
I'd have been happy with just a map, but other bits are ok. I hope I won't need to use them.
My dog now does resembles the dog from Up.
On the training front we've gone back to basics and woking on not pulling on the lead anď heel.
The walks are very short but going well.
Heel I've gone right back to just getting the heel position whilst standing still. Once she has mastered that it will be heel then one step.
All good fun though.
more progress with the dog.
I forgot that they associate commbands with places. So once the training is going well in one area it needs to be taugh from basics in new areas.
I had planned on gdoing to a sports ground but decided to do some sit, down and heel work in the street.
She did really well in a new enviromoment.
One big difference I found in training is not just waiting for the response to the command but also eye contact
