Bradley's 3rd Training Session

Hello,

This is my first post in Hive-Pets. I was recommended to me by a reader in ListNerds and it certainly sounded like a great idea to me. This actually my fourth post about Bradley. I will put the links to the other posts at the end of this one.

Last week we had Bradley's 3rd training sessions. This sessions teaches him heel. I think this is one of the hardest commands for a dog to learn. They have to totally commit to paying full time attention to you and ignore everything else.

According to Justine, you really know a dog has learned this when the walk with their head up, watching you. As you see in the video, Bradley is not to that point yet. We have worked every day since the class with him on heel but we still don't have his total attention.

Trivia Question: Why are dogs taught to heel on your left side?

My wife missed the previous session and wanted to work on "place" with Bradley. (She really just wanted to see him jump up on the pedestals.)

Yesterday, we took him to a dog park that is next to a stream. We wanted to see if he would swim. The dog park itself had mixed results.

When we arrived at the dog park, there were 3 dogs Bradley's size or smaller. Everything was fine. They left and an 11 month old Great Pyrenees arrived. This dog was at least double if not triple Bradley's size. They did not get along at all and we had to leave.

Next we took him to the creek. At first he was a little leery of the water but after splashing around for a few minutes, he decided this was great and started swimming. I was not sure we were going to get him back, He was swimming away from us and didn't want to come back. Finally he turned around and my wife grabbed him. Time to go,

Once home he headed for his bed.

See You At The Bank,
Bob Caine

Previous Bradley Posts

2nd Training Session

1st Training Session

Introduction