Good work. Keep it up and slowly she will learn to listen to and behave you overall far better than a dog untrained in obedience. It can totally reshape a dog's persona from a wild little puppy that jumps on everything, bolts out the door, grabs up everything that hits the floor and chews on everything to one day being a happy, well-behaved pet with plenty of spunk and drive left for having fun. So many people think training a dog takes away its fun personality - its love of life. Nothing is further from the truth if you train correctly, keep it fun, with only positive reinforcement and no discipline for getting it wrong. And the dog learns that pleasing you in behavior makes you happy and he gets only good from that so they try even harder to do what you ask. It's a wonderful thing to bring a pet along to that point and beyond. Often they do what you want before you can even think of it, the little smarties.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |