Wednesday 14th March 2007

Haven't posted for over a week. Molly's training has been going well. I am taking things nice and slowly and we are making progress. Over the last week I have been giving Molly a few retreives and she is doing really well on them. Every so often she reverts to her habit of running past me with the dummy but if I stay low and call her by name she comes to me. When this happens I go back to standing with the kennel wall behind me to reinforce. She is now starting to 'hunt' the lawn for tennis balls. I have been walking the lawn into the wind and throwing out a tennis ball a few feet from me when she is not looking and guiding her on to it. She has really turned on to this now and when I go on the lawn and tell her to 'get on' she has the nose down and is off searching. I have been reducing the amount of times I throw the ball and she is eagerly searching away for it. I keep these sessions very short so as not to tire or bore her. Her sitting is improving all the time but it has been frustrating. She is still on the lead and needs reminding with a sharp jerk on the lead to get her to sit. I have been going slow though and know that we will get there in the end. The battle of wills continues.