AM was spend on social interactions. I have a hoodie with a dog pouch so Oreo came to the markets. He was ok most of the time, but got bit overwhelmed with heaps of kids trying to pat him. We then picked up a mate from airport and he couldn’t care less about noise. It’s nice to have a chill dog like that because Frank can be anxious with noises. Recall practice continues using Jo Rosie’s method - pay for proximity always, recalls from distractions. After the river saga I’m putting most of my eggs to recall basket 🙈 Nice sunset swim for Frank and Oreo running a muck on the beach. I’m blown away of his energy levels I think I really should try and keep him calm more but our lifestyle is pretty active. Fun fact I’ve done hardly any retrieves during retrieve challenge 🤣🙈

Feel like I'm being a bit repetitive but that's training I suppose. Snippets of training on our walks, taking advantage of our environment e.g. strengthening waits while going through gates. Recalls when he is lightly distracted. His recalls are pretty solid, waits we had a few failures. Inside we did some hold reps, I added the cue. And I had a wee shot at luring from middle to heel inspired by @Ave Paasuke I couldn't figure out my mechanics to go from heel to middle. Then I saw I should maybe have started with heel to front?

Nice little recall practice in the morning. This has given me false confidence that he actually listens when out and about. Oh boy how wrong I was 🤣 Lunch time was luring the usual stuff- heel, front and also added position combos which are coming along nicely. After work I had to go and get my photos done for the next photography challenge. Convinced my partner to come and off we went…. What unrolled was an absolute chaos. Someone had cleaned fish next to the river and left all the scales etc behind. While I was sorting out the camera Oreo managed to eat about kilo of them while my “helpful” partner stood and watched 🙈 He took off with a fishing line and we both had to chase him around to get it back. Thankfully it didn’t had a hook. He then decided to launch himself into the muddy river for his first ever swim. Freaked out and got the worst zoomies with zero care about our recall. Then of course a car came so we had to tackle him down like a rugby player while screaming at each other and the driver to stop. Car full of muddy dogs covered in fish, and I’m actually surprised we didn’t get divorced 🤣🤣 Here are couple of quick snaps of our “fun” river trip 😅

Our next challenge is run by @Fiona Austin a Certified Canine Conditioning coach. Starting on 6th July! It’s time to get involved, get active and share your journey 🙌 I’m soooo excited to learn from Fiona about Canine Conditioning.

First time in his life Frank didn’t want to get out of bed to go for a walk. He’s completely fine playing with the pup after so I’m putting it down for it being 9 degrees. Had a lonely “human only” walk instead. Lunch time training was lots of stays, heeling, fronts etc I added Frank for distraction and they are little cuties together even when Frank tries to steal all the food 😅 Practiced holds with Frank in PM with novel items to build his confidence. He didn’t like the wooden spatula but worked through it which is lovely.