I’m glad training with your Corgi pup is going well. It can take a while to get puppies used to distractions. We basically work on this the entire 18 months we have our puppies. Going outside a convenience store is a great way to get your puppy used to distractions. Something we try to do with our service dog puppies is introduce them to all different kinds of distractions as they may encounter pretty much any situation. One thing we did with Archer over the past few weeks is we went door to door to our neighbors and asked them to wait until he was calm and then only give him attention when he was calmly in a sit-stay. We were also dropping off holiday gifts, but I figured it would be a good time for Archer to work on meet and greets. Good luck with your training!

Thanks! He did really well at puppy class and the hockey game last night.

Thank you for putting together this article. I have a 5 month old corgi that I am trying to train, so it will be great to follow Arther’s progress as it coincides with my dog!

It’s been going well so far, but I am having a tough time with distractions. We go outside of a popular convenience store at 6am to try and get him used to distractions, but just haven’t had success yet. We’ve been using super high quality treats too. Little guy does really loves people.

Any advice?
Thanks,
Dan

Yes! I’m going to put together an outing schedule for us! I’ll get that together sometime in the next couple weeks! 🙂