Jackson

I'll start with Jackson and sum up 3 training sessions. Jackson is more and more distractable and eager to play and the clicker is not enough to hold his attention. He does well with it when he focuses, but I am starting to need him to focus when I ask not when he wants a treat. So, I added in the e-collar. I started slowly as if her had never had an e-collar, but he has in fact had it at his previous home to help deter countersurfing and full body hello's. He made this transistion MUCH more smoothly than I expected of him. I figured he would be at my feet, but the clicker training really set in the knowledge beforehand. I added in the collar with it off the first time and continued like before, with good but distractable results. Then I turned it on low (1/2 TT) and he stopped better and held well. Today he was bouncy and wild, and I had to go up to 1 to get his attention at at times. He very quickly figured out that the collar goes off as soon as he stops and was able to move right into quiet stimulation when he tries to break from the whoa. In his case is seemed like he was "forgetting" that he was on a command, so I tried to balence the quiet stimulation with a reminder command depending on his attitude. He had no issues with whoa away from me or near me as he already knows what it means. The collar really only made it more important to pay attention. He still gets a treat when he does it right and a "click" and treat if I don't have to reinforce him at all. All in all a good transition. He the farthest behind and really needs to be the farthest along, so I need to be sure to work with him as much as possible.