Baylee Bear

Baylee, referred to as Balyee Bear by her inmate trainer, is getting better each and every day!  Her training is progressing nicely!  She knows here, sit, down, and stay with hand signal only commands.  She has let’s go and release down pat with verbal only requests!  Her inmate trainer has virtually eliminated the use of kibble rewards while training and is using praise rewards in their place! 

So, Balyee has fallen in love with a new toy but only if the other dogs are using it!  It’s a giant beach ball!  The dogs go crazy with it and Balyee falls in love everytime they have it!

It’s time for swap the hound week and Baylee will be going to spend some time with an alternate handler next week!  She’ll get to experience time away from her primary trainer and receiving and responding to commands from a new trainer!  Her primary trainer is going to miss her, but knows that Baylee will do a good job for her new temporary handler.