06/21/2026
Kiri is about 7 months old and has learned that training is super fun and will bark in protest when I’m training other dogs. I’m flattered that she likes training with me, but she also needs to learn to wait her turn. I’m breaking this concept down into tiny baby steps where she can be successful and will ask more of her as she shows she can handle it.
Right now, she can hang out on a station while I divide my attention between multiple dogs also on stations. But she has a much harder time if other dogs are moving around, like when Leo does nosework, so I’m not asking her to do that yet. I can ask her to wait in other contexts though, like for her dinner. As you can see, she is really good at that, and I have no doubt that eventually she will be able to calmly watch Leo hunt odor.
