For a long time, Holly was content to just hang around in the yard with Wiley….sadly for Holly, she’s gotten more adventurous as she’s gotten older and after more then a few trips out into the street we finally had to buckle down and implement the fence training.
Wiley’s been really good about it, so much so that we haven’t had the collar on him all the time….he would inevitably creep closer and closer to the line and we’d put the collar back on him for a week. He’d get zapped, promptly move back several feet, and we’d march on for another couple of months.
For Holly’s training, we had to go back to step one though…get more flags and set them up all over the yard. We’ve moved Wiley’s collar over to Holly, and she’s getting the picture pretty quickly (she took a pretty nasty zap the other day while following Christopher out of the yard…Christopher had a hot dog, and she was all interested in the food, and forgot, and there was a pretty good yelp from out front and a dog retreating to the porch).
Wiley is deeply traumatized by the appearance of the white flags…he may have post-traumatic training disorder or something. When I brought the flags home, in a bundle, he saw them and took off. Now, with the flags surrounding the yard, he refuses to go outside! I had to physically drag him out to the back yard tonight, and the front yard is a complete non-starter…he won’t step off the porch!
We’re hoping he comes around soon; the flags have to be up for a while so that Holly gets the full and complete picture of what she can and can’t do and if Wiley isn’t going to go out (and there’s no chance he’s going to get shocked..the collar is on Holly!) without a kick in the butt it’s going to be a long month or so……
