toblerone
Well-known member
Hi....
Thought I would give everyone an update on how our rescue, Wyatt, is doing after three weeks. We're continuing to make progress, slowly, but progress nonetheless. He's doing well on house-training, or rather we are making progress. I think a lot of the training is has been on our part. Given the opportunity, I think he would not be doing so well, but we're glad for what we've learned
We've been able to pat him...just a little. We haven't done anything on the leash training. We were waiting until our "consult" with a behaviorist, which we had today. I think we're going to adopt her suggestions for clicker training as our training aid.
In our meeting today, we realized for the first time how very, very hard he has to work to be part of our family. He was exhausted after just a very short clicker session. We are going to have to take this slowly. I try to imagine what it might be like to be transported to a place where I didn't know the rules, didn't know of the language and just wanted to be liked and do what was expected of me, but I didn't know what that was. I'd be really tired too!
The best part about all of this is how well he's getting along with our other two dogs. I can understand why so many rescue organizations won't adopt out dogs to families that don't already have dogs.
We really need to be able to get him out on walks. He is able to run around in our fenced in yard but he's got more energy than this can use up. Some of that energy has been directed at inanimate objects in the house...the random sandal, glove, folder. I'm sure if we can run off some of that energy he'll be less likely to go after things we've forgotten to put away.
Anyway, I'll keep sending in updates. I hope this encourages others to consider those hard-to-place rescues. We've still got a long-haul in front of us but I believe we'll continue to make progress as long as we continue to work at it.
Margaret
Thought I would give everyone an update on how our rescue, Wyatt, is doing after three weeks. We're continuing to make progress, slowly, but progress nonetheless. He's doing well on house-training, or rather we are making progress. I think a lot of the training is has been on our part. Given the opportunity, I think he would not be doing so well, but we're glad for what we've learned
We've been able to pat him...just a little. We haven't done anything on the leash training. We were waiting until our "consult" with a behaviorist, which we had today. I think we're going to adopt her suggestions for clicker training as our training aid. In our meeting today, we realized for the first time how very, very hard he has to work to be part of our family. He was exhausted after just a very short clicker session. We are going to have to take this slowly. I try to imagine what it might be like to be transported to a place where I didn't know the rules, didn't know of the language and just wanted to be liked and do what was expected of me, but I didn't know what that was. I'd be really tired too!
The best part about all of this is how well he's getting along with our other two dogs. I can understand why so many rescue organizations won't adopt out dogs to families that don't already have dogs.
We really need to be able to get him out on walks. He is able to run around in our fenced in yard but he's got more energy than this can use up. Some of that energy has been directed at inanimate objects in the house...the random sandal, glove, folder. I'm sure if we can run off some of that energy he'll be less likely to go after things we've forgotten to put away.
Anyway, I'll keep sending in updates. I hope this encourages others to consider those hard-to-place rescues. We've still got a long-haul in front of us but I believe we'll continue to make progress as long as we continue to work at it.
Margaret
