Living rurally has many advantages and one of those is the ability to safely be able to work on off leash skills with the dogs on our morning walks.
Luna gets a chance to practice many skills on these walks - environmental exploration, handler focus, off leash recall, listening around distractions and other dogs - all very important foundation skills for any dog but especially service dogs in training.
She gets to learn not to eat deer and bunny poop - unlike her adorable hairy sister!
She gets to practice listening in a highly distracting environment which means that when we begin doing her public access work - she has already developed a foundation of listening even though her nose says there is something very interesting just over there...
By establishing these behaviors now, she has a huge leg up on other behaviors later.
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