Training Your Dog And Working Full Time

[TangerineDream]

I work 55 hours plus 10 for trevelling every week, so Tango gets any training that I can fit in...usually in short spurts and at any time of the day or night depending on weather and time of year (neither of us seems to want to work outside when it's 2C with a windchill of -7C for some reason ;) )

I have yet to take him to obedience (he's only 15 months old - can't rush into these things :p ) but has all of the basics and it wouldn't take much to have him working at close to novice level. The hardest thing is getting him to 'single task' rather than 'multitask' so focus continues to be the challenge with him.....but we're getting there. I don't think that there'd be much difference if I worked half the time I do, except that i would have managed to get to formal obedience classes.

[shoemonster]

I'm so surprised how responsive Ed is becoming, he's turning 18 months next month, and he just seems to really be maturing nicely, and I just love his personality, he's becoming slightly less sooky

(though he spent Molly's consult with the eye specialist jammed into the corner of the room with his ears flat back, so he still is a big wuss bag - and he was only there for moral support lol)

He still gets the sillies now, but is so much more responsive and seems to listen a bit more that he was

Edited December 14, 2006 by shoemonster