For this assignment I felt that it would be better for me to use a friend's dog as there is no shelters near me that I can go to every day. So I chose Jessica, a 2 year old Welsh Corgi female. I do not have a specific reason for choosing her for this assignment, other than the fact that I just liked her so much from the first day I saw her. My friend has 5 other Welsh Corgi’s, but Jessica was the most gentle one that stood out and so I asked them if it will be ok for me to train her as she did not go to a training school when she was still a puppy and luckily her owners were more than happy that I wanted to train her.
I also kept in mind how much time I have to train a dog and so Jessica was the perfect dog because her owners were at home the whole day every day so it was possible for me to go there whenever I want, for how long I want and this saved me so much time and made it possible for me to train her in such short time. I was able to give all my attention to training Jessica.
I started the training with Jessica a week after I received the assignment. On the first day I went only to observe exactly what learning style would work better with her and what will motivate her the most to do what I ask her to do. I also wanted to see if there is anything special that I would need to take with me every day to use during the training. I wanted to do clicker training but I forgot my clicker on that day but realized that she gives enough attention when I have a small treat in my hand.
The first thing I started to train Jessica was to walk on a loose leash because I saw that she was a little uncomfortable with a leash at first. I also wanted to keep her on a leash when I started to train her on the other cues to insure that she...
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...erence, she did it a bit slower but she still completed it without having to ask twice.
I trained Jessica to do these four commands in 6 weeks. The only reason I had for trying to complete all 4 skills in a specific time frame was that I wanted it to be done before 25 December. I’m glad to say that Jessica and I got it done without rushing and had accomplished it even before the time I wanted it to be done. I did not go to train her every day. I only went to train her when I had time but also made sure to not leave too many days in between where we did not train. I also did not have a time period for how long we are going to train each day because it was a bit difficult when I had things to do or when the weather did not play along.
I am happy to say that Jessica now knows the basic skills that dogs are trained at a school and I had so much fun training her.
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