Ok so Cali is doing good at her show training so I decided to ask my nephew to do a video of her. please don't mind me I need to loose weight and it was hot (100) so I am not at my best and nephew didn't zoom into cali so bear with me LOL. She did wonder at class too there was more dogs there this time so woohoo
would like any and all opinions.
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Great work! She moves nicely and I love how you get her to stand at the end. Bryco does NOT get this. I've tried everything lol. Picking up his butt, coaxing him a step forward etc.

Cali looks so nice and I can tell her coat has really started to grow!

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Thank you Jan & Chico!!

Lovely work.. and she is a beautiful little girl..

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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. ~~Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Thank you Kristi =p I did so many things watched videos on youtube, read books about 10+ and handlers class (went 3x's) she had a point where she quit and I had to decide if I wanted to go on. the best thing I did is walking everywhere with the show lead not a harness this worked way better then I thought. she got so use to having it on that and it was like so natural but I will say people will look at you funny with this tiny dog and a tiny lead LOL.
and I took her to petsmart/petco and regular walks in the neighborhood.
try that and see if that helps also when teething are won't listen very well LOL. Good luck! keep me updated

Thank you so much!

Well he's definitely hardcore into teething, for sure. Kinda driving me nuts...if he can get it in his mouth he will chew it LOL.

I'm so lucky w/ him, he is macho already and SO FAR isn't afraid of anything...knock on wood...not even big dogs. The other day we took him into a local petstore and the owner's dog and a puppy of the other worker both nipped at him (they were both big dogs) and he was not to sure...but last night we brought him to someone's house where there were a lot of people, it was loud, and there were two big dogs ... he did fine. Only problem is he gets TOO excited lol...if ya know what I mean. So embarrassing. I'm scared to walk him on a show lead around here, too many people have their big dogs on the loose and I can't scoop him up in an emergency as I've had to several times with my smaller 3 (Laurel's too big for this haha...)...so I'm not sure. I definitely agree that it would be amazing but I'm not sure?? I guess I can try it and just be extra alert. THe real problem is freestacking...I don't know how to help him "get it". Cali seems to do really, really well at it though so I just need to work at it I guess.

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Thank you Jan & Chico!!

She's so pretty!

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Thank you Jan for the lovely siggie!

well key is anywhere you "can" walk him put the lead instead, let him drag it around in the house but watch in case don't want anything happening. the free stacking is a form in its own mostly he won't get it at first so you just have to get him to look at something and keep picking up his legs and placing them where you want them and do this all the time, when you do treats he needs to stack for you and won't get the treat till then, if he sits down try to get him to come to you closer and give him the treat even if not perfect it is telling him you want him up not a sit. he should calm down soon as he learns to control his body. do you have a belly band for him?