Buddy and Skye holding hands - week 5

So Skye and Buddy held hands of and on all day today. Whenever they sat down next to each other they would touch each others hand. They started doing this when we would begin our training sessions with Skye because they knew that a treat was coming soon. Then they just started doing this everytime they sat down next to each other.

week 5 with Skyle

Skye is in the middle of being trained and she is doing well so far. We are working with her everyday and so far so good. However, Blossom our cat decided that she would get involved in the training. So apparently she is smarter than we are. It took her 1 day and her job was done. Skye clearly knows that when Blossom is in the room. SHE is in charge. Skye  still not doing too well with people that she does not know but we are working with her. We take her for walks and she is getting used to our neighbors but is still slightly fearful of them. She wants to friendly but catches herself after a few minutes and begins to bark. I expect to have this situation on the road to recovery in a few weeks with some of our neighbors. She has learned the sounds of out cars. She has her own bed now and is very happy to be like Buddy. Allthough, she will occasionally go and get on Buddys bed just because.

week 4 with Skye

The beginning of week 4 has been interesting with Skye. We allowed her to spend about three weeks with us bonding and getting comfortable with her surroundings. She has been a joy for us but at the moment not so much for our neighbors. She barks agressively to all of our neighbors. She is very smart and has learned that our cats are not going to run from her. She wants to chase them but they are smarter than she is giving them credit for. She is fun and happy and as most aussies do, she gets bored very easily. We have bought a frisbee and have some games that we are playing with her. She is not really interested in being trained but she is learning that we are the leaders and  she is not the leader of us. She is clearly motivated by food. That does put some fun in her training. We have started training her with more stimulation and it does seem to work better than repetitous training. She loves to be close to us and is not happy when our German Shepherd is not with her.

4th week with our new Skye Blue Belle

Ok so we have had three weeks of bonding and its time for some training to begin. Skye is a funny girl and she have figured out that she is loved by us and can totally trust us. So we have started our training. She is pretty quick so far with understanding and following our lead. She decided that she thought it was time to move up and take Buddy's bed. Not a good decision of hers since she didnt think Buddy would mind but that didnt seem to be the case. Skye was quite disappointed and a mini fight started but ended very quickly. So clearly we need to get her own bed. She has her crate but is feeling a little sad and misunderstood that she doesnt have her own. So we will take care of that situation soon. She is happy and very settled and seems to be ok with the training process. We have chosen to not use any form of harsh training and we only do about 30 min a day. She still tends to want to chase the cats so we do use a newpaper to slap on our hands to get her attention and it works very well. We do not want to spank or use any harsh form of disciplinewith  her since we are her third owners and we dont want to upset her. So the newpaper noise seems to work well. She is lovely and is eager to please and loves to play. So far so good for the beginning of week 4