Jake is coming along nicely. We play the game called “find it” once in a while. This is where I drag a small piece of hotdog through the grass leaving a scent trail and hide it several feet away. I then lead Jake to the start of the scent trail and tell him to find it. He then goes to work trying to find the treat with his nose to the ground. We started out just a few feet on a straight trail. Now we are up to 10-12 feet away using a curved trail. I don’t really count this as training but it does help him to practice using his nose in trailing scent.

At 5 months I found myself wishing I would have spent more time with Jake when he was younger working on basic obedience. Instead we just played around and had more free time. I can see now as he is getting bigger that it is getting harder to teach him basic obedience. Not only mentally more difficult but also more physically challenging because he is getting stronger and larger in stature.