Ronnia – Sixth Session
We have a had few days off training as Ronnia has had her ‘little girl’ operation. She is back to her normal adorable self today which is good news as her vibrating collar has arrived. Today we are going to let her wear it for a little while to become used to it and then train her to respond to the vibration by looking to me.
I have no problem putting it on as Ronnia is already very good on a collar and lead. To start with she wears the collar while we go through the hand signals she already knows, sit, stay, down. This is important for her to do something she is confident with while she gets used to the weight of the attachment on the collar.
When she is calm and concentrating I have her sit close to me and press the remote control to deliver a vibration at the lowest level. This I combine with a tasty bit of chicken and very quickly she is associating the sensation of the vibration with the food.
Next we move to wandering about the patio. When Ronnia moves away from me and shows interest in something else I vibrate the collar and she comes to me for her reward. Ronnia is very food orientated and even when she has run off round the corner to greet someone coming in, I send a vibration and she comes running back. This is a superb start for training with the vibrating collar.
On another note. Today we have been training in a patio that is right next door to the cattery and Ronnia has formed a particularly strong bond with one of the cats that keeps escaping the cattery to play with her. The cat, Monica, doesn’t like other cats and is fairly indifferent to people but loves Ronnia. In an ideal world these two would be adopted together, but what it does show is that Ronnia is fantastic with cats opening up her adoption opportunities.
