Luna, a Havanese puppy, came to board-and-train for housetraining with a few extra ounces on her. This puppy’s owner said one of the problems she had is her dog won’t walk in the heat, so the puppy doesn’t get enough exercise. She not only gained some extra Covid weight, but she needed a way to exercise her relatively inactive dog in the air conditioning.
As I housebroke and trained this puppy, I also thought about the weight and exercise issue her owner discussed with me. Losing weight wasn’t on the official agenda on this dog’s list, but I added it to a side training plan because I had the room. That’s not always the case.
How much I can train a dog to do depends on the official list of behaviors I discuss with the owner to accomplish while the dog is boarding and training with me. But in this case, there was leeway, so I developed a variation on an exercise used mostly for horses. Barrel racing for a Havanese dog, and she loved it!
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To send your dog or puppy to the Love Wags A Tail board-and-train camp for motivational learning with our cast of characters, contact me with your dog training, behavior modification wish list to get started.
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Helen Verte Schwarzmann
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