Haley Harding

 This week I started working with Coco by familiarizing her with a few basic commands. She already came to me decently well when I called her, but she definitely needed some practice. I also wanted to get her used to the sit, lie down, and roll over commands.  At first I had some trouble starting out because she is a ball full of energy and wouldn't sit still long enough for me to even say the command. So, as a result I had to change my tactics. I started snapping to get her attention, which proved to work extremely well. So by the time Saturday had rolled around, she has started coming to me when called (She only comes when I whistle) and standing still long enough to let me get the command out.  At the begging of this week I solidified her ability to come to me and started working on sitting. To make her sit, I would say "sit" while snapping my fingers twice. She needed some encouragement at first by me pushing her butt down while saying sit, but she ended up catching o...