Training Poppy

Doug isn't squishing her in the photo honest! His hand is just above her encouraging her to keep her butt down. She loves crawling through the grass, so we are trying to teach her to do it on command (the command is 'commando Poppy'

Commando Poppy Commando!!

She understands (and mostly obeys if she thinks there is a treat in it anyway) - sit, stay, lie down, come here and shake. I think she might understand take it, leave it and drop also but they happen a bit less reliably. We are working on go to Doug/go to Rhoda, go to bed, stand up, commando and fetch (I thought dogs were BORN knowing how to fetch but I guess not - or we got a dud)

She also enjoys champing madly at the grass while rotating round in circles on her side. I think we might give training her to do this on command a miss as it makes her look a bit weird and by extension us.

Poppy the grass crocodile

We are making (very) slow progress trying to teach her not to pull when on the leash. She has a slightly distressing habit of launching herself forward in what seems to be an attempt to hang herself, this is getting much better though (she had got used to running round unrestricted in her old life on quite a bit farm and has struggled to come to terms with not being able to run where she wants)