Chael's walking is SO much better. Auto downs are now coming. Doing a random "place" on a walk doesn't always happen, but the attached videos shows success. "Under" was tricky on the walk, but usually works at home (as shown in the video). Progress!

Here's a video of Chael staying at his "place" when someone arrived at our door earlier today. Typically, he'd be barking and would need to be restrained. Awesome progress for him after his first week. The second and third video are of Chael on his walk. It was less great. Part of the difficulty was likely due to the fact the the collar wasn't on tight enough. Also, the remote wasn't even on initially. Oops! Additionally, I was using a leash that goes over my shoulder and Chael maybe needed more leash to work with (it was difficult operating the camera, remote and leash at the same time). The walk got better when I put the camera away and held the leash in my hand (rather than over shoulder). Auto-down was almost non-existant. This is obviously still a work in progress. Let me know if I'm doing it wrong.