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Maple · Solid Foundation

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Maple stay progress

  • Maple's goals: loose leash, sit for greetings, wait at doors. Over the 7-day stay she went from pulling on every smell to a fully loose-leash trail loop, solid door waits and mostly sitting for greetings. At home, door waits hold, greetings are mostly sits and leash fades after 10 minutes. Follow-up lesson 1: Oct 26.

Daily home practice

  • Oct 21, 2026: 20 minutes, Oct 22, 2026: 10 minutes, Oct 23, 2026: 15 minutes

Solid Foundation follow-ups

  • Follow-up private lesson 1
  • Follow-up private lesson 2

Home practice

  • Practice 15 minutes and log it here (Every day at 5:30 PM)

· Home

What we practiced: Greetings
Minutes: 15m
How it went: Sat for my neighbor twice, jumped once. Turning away worked.

· Home

What we practiced: Door waits
Minutes: 10m
How it went: Waited every time. Broke once when a delivery driver knocked.

· Home

What we practiced: Loose leash walk
Minutes: 20m
How it went: Good for the first 10 minutes, then she pulled toward the park. Stopping works but takes forever.
Question for Megan: Is the front-clip harness okay to use?

· Stay

Go-home lesson
How to keep practicing at home:
– Loose leash: stop the moment the leash goes tight, go when it’s loose
– Greetings: guests ask for a sit and turn away on a jump
– Doors: she waits until you say okay

Follow-up lesson 1: Oct 26

· Stay

Day 7
Loose leash for the whole trail loop. Door waits are solid. Ready to go home.

· Stay

Day 5
Sat for greetings with three helpers, one in a hat. Two jumps, both met with a turn away.

· Stay

Day 3
Waits at the kennel door now. Loose leash for the first half of the walk, then the squirrels won.

· Stay

Day 1
Settled in fast. Started place and leash pressure. Pulled toward every smell on the trail.

· Stay

Meet and greet
Maple, 10-month-old lab mix. Pulls hard on leash, jumps on guests, bolts out the door. Friendly with dogs, nervous with men in hats.

Goals for Solid Foundation: loose leash, sit for greetings, wait at doors.

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Home practice

**What we practiced:** [text]
**Minutes:** [duration]
**How it went:** [paragraph]
**Question for Megan:** [text]

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