Friday, July 24, 2009

Best $230 ever spent

As I mentioned, while we were gone Abby stayed out in Payette at a kennel that also does training. Our friends had their dog trained there for 6 weeks to learn to hunt. We didn't want her gone that long yet or tp spend that much money, so the guy agreed to take her for 13 days while we were out of town. We will take her back in September for more training as well.
Let me just say, I am impressed. Seriously worth every penny and the hour long drive to get there! She is still our Abby and still has a spunky personality but we no longer have to fight her on everything. We used to use a Halti to walk her, not necessary anymore. She heels the entire time and sits when we stop. We also can tell her to sit in the house and she will do it immediately and not move until we release her! Our next project is getting her to COME since he wasn't able to work on that yet, but oh my gosh she is so much easier to manage! He also said she has really good instinct and did great with the gun and bird training he did with her. Pretty good for an unpapered, cheap dog!
This clip is when I picked her up. It's even more impressive because she hadn't seen me for 2 weeks. You can tell she is excited but she still listens and follows his lead. She isn't quite this good with us yet, but we are working on it.

1 comment:

Jessarella said...

That is pretty amazing!