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.