Last Friday my dad took Zorro and I to Petsmart to train and to get some toys he badly needed & I guess my food wasn't tasty enough and there were too many distractions, suffice to say Petsmart was an utter disaster.
He was completely ignoring me, and would freak when he saw another dogs. He wanted to pee on every post, and he's leash kept on getting stuck on my wheelchair. When we finally did make it inside, he tried to grab every toy, that was kind of funny. I played with him inside the store and walked around and he was doing ok, until he peed on one of the shelves. He picked his favorite toy at Petsmart.
taking him to Petsmart was exhausting but also an eyeopener and I am glad we went.
I realize we need a lot more training, especially to focus on me instead of everything else.
We've been working on him learning to work with other people and he's coming along fine. For example,
"get mom," and my dad has been working on getting in/out of the car.
Working on "out" which is him releasing whatever he has in his mouth. Zorro is like a toddler, everything he sees he wants to put in his mouth. He has brought my pants, towels, gloves, shoes, carpet, socks, across the house, and when you try to take it out he thinks is play time and goes bersurk.
Lately we've out working on come, which he's very good at.
Another thing that I find amazing is that all my dogs learned to follow my around and Zorro is doing that very well.
I don't have to call me and he follows me everywhere on my side without a leash. Go Zorro!!!
He has graduated from being tether to everything to just being around like a civil dog, laying around near me or just being there. That proves that he's really calm down and beginning to have self control.
To be honest this past week has been pretty exhausting because training is very repetitive and requires more time. This is a good thing as far as training because that means zorro is making so much progress that we're moving on with the program. I am learning to pace myself and not to overwork myself, and to rest.
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