This week, Basics continue and new skills are added:

ACTIVE CUES

• Get Busy
• Settle
• Sit
• Waffles! (name recognition and recall)
• Yes! (marker word)
• Uh-uh
• Trade You
• Touch
• Come
• Down
• Kennel up
• That’ll Do

PASSIVE CUES

• Get Dressed
• Wait
• Focus / Look At Me / Check In
• Fetch / “Get it!”
• Drop
• Leave it

BUTTON CUES (PASSIVE)

• Outside
• Go Play

OTHER BITS AND BOBS

• Loose Leash Walking 101
• Tether training
• Crate training
• Housebreaking
• Bite inhibition
• People-neutral behavior in public
• Self-soothing and self-entertainment in a pen
• House manners
• Routines and naps
• Training sessions
• Public visits (in arms)
• Focus
• Building a retrieve
• Grooming-specific skills

It’s a big week for a little Waffler — we have house guests this upcoming weekend, he gets to spend time with his auntie Jodi while the family attends a very long screenplay reading session on Sunday, and there’s a lot on the go! Our “formal” training sessions are currently about 4-6 minutes long (10+ times a day) and our informal training is simply perpetual. He has a number of outings in public planned, and will be working hard on his people-neutral skills. Good boy!