What are (or have been) your main training goals with your doodles?

[Adina P]

Because my husband's border collie was trained to be off-leash reliable in virtually all situations, my goal (even if I never reach it) in training Rosco has been to reach off-leash reliability. I'm not satisfied with knowing he knows "sit" or "stay" ... I want to know he WILL sit and stay and come, etc, no matter what/no matter where, regardless of whether there is a leash on him or not.

I realize this is not necessarily within MY skill level, but it's the goal in the back of my mind every time we go out to work (train) at PetCo, at Kennel Club handling practice (where we do no handling since Rosco's a designer mutt), etc. Perhaps I am too much of a control freak, but I have to set high standards in training or else I can easily slack off!

But that's just me

[Joannie]

Richard, you do have a great sense of humour.....still chuckling at this one.

[Joannie]

I'd like Barney to be a nice dog when people meet him. Right now he loves people but he jumps so high on them, I'm worried about him scaring young children. As he gets bigger, he could knock an old person over and that worries me too. He'd lick them to death on the ground, but this could be literal. hehe.

We're in basic obedience, but I'd like to carry on with it and do some agility training. It's great exercise for them.