Magnet day 2 · Paradigm K9 Dog Training

Magnet day 2

I saw your Halloween video and it was night and day from my 3 year old lab’s behavior on Halloween. I’m on day 2. And she’s already behaving differently.

One thing I’ve noticed on day 1 was her general hesitation to look me in the eye.

When she does look up it seems like she is looking just off center, about 1-2” off the side of my face. It’s subtle, but it’s there, so I’ve been waiting longer to get a glimpse of the full eye contact before the yes and reward. Curious if you have thoughts on that.

As some background I picked her up from a farm I work at. Her prior owner is a waterfowl hunter and had several dogs and had to reduce how many he had. she had prior hunting training that gave her some really good behaviors (never jumps on people, waits to be invited indoors before coming in) and some fear/submissive behaviors and some gun shyness that were working on. She may have had some aggressive e-collar corrections or other negative reinforcement events that may have contributed to her hesitation to look in the eyes.

Anyways. Thanks for the videos. Look forward to seeing how she progresses.

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