Rescue Dog Gets a Home In San Diego & Dog Training Camp

Mojo is a rescue dog who definitely is very happy about her new plight in life. She’s only 11 months old and has spent most of her life in shelters. She started out in a Las Angeles shelter and was moved to the San Diego Rancho Coastal Humane Society in Encinitas. Lucky for her she was adopted by a couple who are ready to have a dog in their lives and they want to do it the right way so off to dog training camp she went right away.

Mojo is certainly enjoying her new freedom and needs to catch up on some much needed exercise. She has a ton of energy. Exercise is going to be huge for her to contain herself. She wants to be with a person all the time which is understandable considering where she has come from. She just doesn’t know about jumping up for attention, getting on the counters, or even really how to sit when she is so excited to see a person or another dog.

This type of dog is the hardest for many to train because she is so sweet people tend to let her get away with a lot of things because of where she has been. She has that “not sure” sort of look about her and she just wants attention.

The best thing for a dog like this is some very clear rules about how to act in the house as well as how to sit outside when around people rather than jumping on them. She also needs a recall or to come when called every time.

This is extremely important in her case because she has so much energy that she does need to burn it off by running. She is very lucky in that her adoptive dad is a triathlete and runs a lot so she’ll get plenty of exercise that way. But she also needs some off leash time to burn it off with other dogs. She has so much energy even the best of triathletes don’t run that much daily!!

She’s got a good start on training. She is learning how to sit at doors and she is starting to get the idea that it’s better to sit in front of people for attention rather than jumping up on them for attention. Capturing that picture for her every time is how she is starting to see how she is supposed to act and already responds to sit in mid air as she starts to jump in excitement.

Working on recall is our big project and practicing it over and over at short distances is what we’ve started with. Most people don’t understand that if a dog doesn’t know how to come to you every time at short distances with no distraction, the hope that a dog will come to you for a distance with distraction is nearly impossible and certainly won’t be reliable.

So the recall training will continue, over and over and over until it becomes very clear to Mojo.

She is a lucky dog and she knows it. Coming to K9 Coach Dog Training Camp is giving her a head start to a new life of a well mannered best friend.