We've had a bit of time off from training over December as we've been travelling around a fair bit, I've been ill about four times and parenting has taken up a lot of time. Willow has been remarkably manageable throughout, a combination of our training efforts and her growing up quite a lot. I suppose we've still trained during her walks, but it's been low level. My plans for 2026 are: - Walking nicely on the lead - Improve heeling duration - she struggles with impulse control when moving around distractions - On the topic of heeling, I'd like to get her to recall to heel. Our standards have dropped a little and she likes to release herself or not complete the recall - After one too many jumping incidents culminating in nearly knocking over an old lady, we need to tackle this - Teaching her to calm in busy places. This has improved with age, but I'm going to actively target this I'm still working on the "how", but I plan to try to get a few active training sessions a week besides her walks, so will update as I go. In the meantime, here's a little video someone took of us on the beach where we're working on her impulse control. I like to get her to sit/lie down and wait before chasing her ball sometimes. The baby is asleep and strapped to my chest 😂.

Nothing too exciting but I wanted to share what I've been working on at home with calm before leaving. Getting his collar on calmly and stopping the parkour off the furniture. you can see his constant need to jump at me but this is actually quite a good clip from today as he would normally take a few tries to get him to stay sitting while I put his collar over his head then he would continue to jump about after. He only did one fly by after it was on then sat down again so little win. Also added clip from class today. Igor actually nailed his stops, phoenix was slightly laggy she typically did a fab one when I wasn't filming.

Today tried something new. Stuffed my wife into a wooden box 40m upwind with a mattress pump connected to a pipe leading under a wood pile. Kizmet obviously picked up her scent but was a little confused and did not do a good bark alert despite finding the correct spot. Idea is to be able to give her a smaller scent picture than a close by human body. It is hard to replicate a deeply buried person under a few floors of building but a pipe with a weak pump blowing in means I should be able to play with the concentration a bit. Also can use less obvious hides with a pipe than a full human.

Started back to my10 minutes, kitchen training, started with some tricks, , middles and some play, with a stop and play again, had to stop this as Maggi got very excited 🤣🤣 After Saturday training class, Maggi seems to have got very puppy like again! Unsure why🤣🤣

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