Callie is a nine month old female yellow lab. She was recently adopted by a young couple with two toddlers that are both under three years old. Callie’s original seventy six year old owner obtained her at eight weeks old, a month later he became very sick and was hospitalized for over five months. During that time she was cared for by his family and friends, but spent long periods of time alone in his home. By the time her owner recovered Callie had become a big unruly puppy that had been given very little direction. Callie was not housebroken, became highly destructive, and jumped on humans incessantly.
Her owner realized that Callie now needed much more attention to “catch up” on all the training and socialization she’d missed. Sadly he decided to find her a new home. Callie’s new owner waisted no time getting in touch with me to come up with a behavior modification program and schedule for Callie. I am happy to say that Callie is just about completely housebroken now, isn’t jumping on people anymore and is much less excited and anxious. In three weeks she has learned to loose leash walk, to sit and stay and to go to her bed when instructed. Callie has three more sessions left. In that time we will be working on coming when called, following commands with tougher distractions and mastering how to down stay. I am so proud of Callie and her new young family for all her accomplishments so far.