I took my little Am Staff to our field where we do our daily OB and exercise. I throw her tennis ball and she chases it for as long as I will let her, then we do some cool down laps and I put her in her crate in the car and we go home. Since I re-trained her at about 2.5 part of our daily regime is a nightly session of "down - stays" for 30 minutes. After we have eaten and the dogs have eaten, then we go train, we come home and I put my feet up and watch TV and the dogs my Am Staff and APBT do a down - stay while I watch TV. WE go any where from 30 min to 45. My APBT will "stay" all night, he is 11. But I just never got out of the habit of doing this exercise.
Yesterday we went to do our thing at our field, pretty secluded, very rarely are there people there. After our OB I take her off leash and throw the ball, she always has her dogtra on, in the event someone lets their dog run loose at her. One correction with her dogtra she is at my side in a sit...she has DA issues. While she was fetching the ball I see a small kid come from behind me and running to my dog that had just retreived her tennis ball. The child was small....maybe 1st grade?????? And her mommy is saying "Oooohhhh look at the puppy dog", which now that I think about it it is better than what I usually get "OMG it's a pit bull" LOL. Any way my girl sees the kid and starts to run I hope back to me but the child is now in front of me on a diagonal. My girl is good with kids but I could just see her plowing this kid over, so I said in a calm but loud voice..."Lilly DOWN", as soon as she hit the dirt I said "STAY" and SHE DID without any juice from her dogtra....I was elated but at the same time very anxious to get to her and monitor the child/dog interaction her mother was so eagerly hoping for apparently. She stayed in her down as the child gave her some wacks on top of her head....her tail was thumping the ground, and the mother said to me , what a pretty dog...what is she. I said she was an American Staffordshire Terrier...the woman was pleased with the answer, I quickly leashed her and we excused ourselves back to the truck....the little girl cried.
I can't believe she did this....she is such a good girl!!!!!!
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Her First Down Stay Outside.....
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