Had a quieter day, I took him for a walk on forestry tracks. He is getting more adventurous jumping from banks 🙈 The only training I did was on that walk. I did lots of rewarding for check ins because I read a post that at his age it's wise to go back to training the important life things as if he was a puppy. Then we stopped and did some hold for our retrieve challenge, I was actually quite surprised he played along in that environment. We also did a hunting exercise for strengthening his hunt cue. He was a very good boy and I enjoy training like that, when you add it into walks.

Our morning adventure and recall walks were lovely and nice heelwork and positions during lunch break. Pm retrieves practice was chaos on the other hand. Having the pup now I find Frank is really full on with his toys. It’s not a bad thing for old boy to feel full of life again, he’s just bit cheeky and runs off with them 😆 First couple of reps he just took off to chew his toy, then in a classic human way I decided to make it even harder and you can see how this worked for me 🤣 No PM training with Oreo. It’s been freezing here so he was ready for a snooze wrapped in blankets

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We were at puppy class and I have been rewarded for trusting the process. Lyon was 50% less chaotic than usual and even did some sitting with me calmly watching the other teams. He also did some really nice heelwork and stays. I'm so chuffed with him. That led me to wonder if he wanted to sleep on the bed last night and I can revel that ended in a hard no from me 🤣 The remaining 50% chaos makes that an unpleasant experience and landed him in his cage within a few mins. I did some retrieves and casual holds at puppy class. Just on lead when we were waiting for class to start.

Wooo it’s officially my 30th check in. Happy one month anniversary haha. Our retrieves challenge day 2 training was “the throw” to build drive, but I got home so late. Both dogs were hungry and wanted food not play so I got a very “meh” response. Ended up doing some luring and heelwork for food which was really nice. I’ll practice the throw on the beach this morning. Hope everyone is having a good week.