We spent the whole day with our mustangs. Now that we have established a good relationship with our mustangs which is based on respect and trust, we can take a step forward in the training. We spent the whole morning teaching them the command ‘down’. Even though they had never done it before, after a few hours of training, we now just need to give them a very quick hand sign and they go down like little rockets. It’s amazing! Some dogs don’t reach this level in many years of training but here we go in just one day! At the same time, they also learnt not to get up before we give them another command meaning that they would stay down when we leave even when someone runs past them playing with another dog or in any other conflict situation. In the afternoon, we took the dogs and Hans his eagle 'Ayana' in the trailer and drove to a public area to get them used to other people, dogs, cars etc. They were perfectly well behaved except once, when Angelo barked at two big dogs. Today not only the dogs learnt a lot but also we did and it was a lot of fun at the same time! In the evening I went for a nice walk with Paulo & Liwa and they followed me nicely, like two little lambs...They even sit quietly now and I can go away while they still sit. Once they become completely reliable at this discipline, they can also take the next step in trainig...
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