Attitude can mean so much in training these dogs. Case in point, Steve was working on flanks with Stryker this afternoon and he was slicing his flanks and taking some cheap shots. Steve slowly took off his glove and was ready to correct Stryker for the next tight flank. He gave him a flank and Stryker squared it off very nicely and did the rest of his flanks with nice distance. I got to thinking about it and thought to myself that it was because Steve took the attitude that he wasn't going to put up with this nonsense any more. Stryker read that somehow, whether it was the body language or something and did his flanks properly.
I have experienced the same thing with Cash. I have had times when I have gone into a training session and said to myself, I am not going to put up with not taking downs on the first command, etc. My attitude must show as I won't have that problem that session without having to correct him too hard.
Now if only we could somehow capture that attitude and keep it with us in every training session and every time we walk to the post.
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