Week 3 Exit Lesson Notes

 Questions

  • At home does Olive nip at you when you handle her?
  • Have you dealt with Olive by avoiding things that trigger her?
  • Can the adult owners usually pick her up and handler her with no problem?
  • Does Olive ever sit with the adults on furniture et?
  • When you bring her for a car ride, is it usually something she finds scary at the end?
Observations:
  • What the beginnings were like with Olive (needing to put on the leash with a grab it, needing her to be in the puppy pen to leash her up without her getting away with nipping me.)
  • Olive, as you know, tries to get away with hiding, nipping to biting (but still inhibited) to not do something.
  • Olive is genuinely scared.  She is also a middle aged girl who is used to getting her way.  So she has to both be gently guided along, and pushed sometimes. 
  • Olive seems to like people generally, although she is fearful of people at first (me and Robert in the beginning)
  • Generally, Olive seems to get a lot more accepting of the handling (after she panics the first time) the next day.  She does seem to improve in a short amount of time with a trusted handler.

Equipment

  • Transitional leash how to use, back up collar needed if nose loop use, nose loop only used for walking, great behavioral tool.
  • Long leash, why to use and when to use.
  • Possibly chain collar and using it, how to put it on, size it tight but right, you don't necessarily have to use it as she works well on the slip
  • Muzzle when to work with it in situations where Olive protests.   Thick gloves also work.   Picking up rather than pulling her forward on the leash.
Exercises behavioral:

  • How these help
  • Sit on the Dog
  • Place both obedience and behavioral
  • Mock dog exams on elevated surfaces (back end remains problematic and picking up)  easier exam now is ears, neck shoulders, front and back feet, muzzle, look at teeth, open mouth, 
  • Muzzle conditioning (also see below)
Exercises Obedience:

  • How these help
  • Use of Marker Words
  • Let's go
  • Sits
  • Sit stays 
  • Send to place (let them know that Olive loves practicing this like an agility exercise
  • Circle place
  • Long Place
Behavior Modification Maintenance:
  • Ball play after stressful exercises or environment
  • Calming exercises after stressful exercises or environment
  • Although you do not have to food train all the time, build food training so she will take food in (slowly) increasingly difficult environments
  • Muzzle time can be stressful, so I usually do a sit on the dog or something afterward.   I don't want her to equate the muzzle with bad things all the time.  
  • Identify the things she likes to work around (ball play, outside, certain areas she likes to be petted, affection, treats she likes) 
  • Try not to let her hide in the corners overly long.  Have a place for her to hang with you on leash, open wire crate, or open wire dog pen to get used to human activity around her
  • Brushing on an elevated surface many times a week to get ready for being on a vet's table.  Sometimes with the muzzle.
  • Olive very much improves, but she has probably months more maintenance work with you to go. 
  • Make sure you take her on car trips and walks that aren't always scary.   If a dog's destination when they are out is usually scary, that is when you will find they are hard to get out of the car et.
  • Be sure that all equipment is in good condition, fits, and stays on her.   Her escaping during training or in someone else's care will not help her.  

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