Training Rumple

Rumple’s kept me busy so I haven’t been able to keep his blog up to date!!

On Monday I took him puppy training. He wasn’t bad considering he’d never worked in that environment before. He was about the same level as the rest despite missing a couple of sessions. I’m taking him for the socialisation as much as the training, but he was actually quite good!

I’ve been doing lots of training with him at home too. Primarily we’ve been working on ‘stay’, ‘wait’ recall and a few tricks (over a little jump, through the hoop, through the tunnel and round a pole). He’s picked lots of thing up quite quickly, though needs lots of practise! Will add YouTube links once videos are uploaded. 

One thing he hasn’t learnt is how not to pester big sister Millie. He’s also had an argument with big brother Joe, and now Joe can’t stand the sight of him! We’re working on it and they’re happy going for walks together, it’s just indoors. 

Behavioural things that need to be worked on at the moment are not attacking the hoover, and increasing confidence around bikes and strangers, particularly men.