I am working on agility and obedience with Anya and Ravon. Mushing season is pretty much over in Texas so we will be focusing on that. Each day I do short training sessions with each dog.

With Ravon, I am focusing on the weeve poles in agility. I have them set up staggered left and right and he basically runs throw the middle dodging left and right. He is learning to not skip poles, little cheater.

I am also teaching both of them how to properly play tug, Anya was good at it but after neglecting the exercise as a whole in lue of food rewards, she needs some refreshing, mainly on bringing it back. She still has a perfect out though.

Ravon needs more confidence building before I can even dream of introducing the out. He is super sensitive to any kind of pressure, I mean even the gentlest tug on the lead to come towards me can cause him to drop the toy. I seemed to have made a breakthrough with him today and he will now bring it to me without dropping it.

Other than that I NEED to work on Anya's leash reactivness. About a year ago she was brutally attacked at the park by a Pit Bull. Now she is very reactive to other dogs. Our neighborhood is like a 3rd world country with all the loose dogs running about and a third or more of them are Pit Bulls so I don't feel safe even trying to work on that around here. I guess I need to get a nice revolver, pulling the slide back while holding the leash of a reactive dog probably won't work so well. Sorry, but damn. Most of the places we walk are secluded without other dogs so we haven't had much opportunity to work on this problem behavior. Quite frankly I am so sick of people's out of control loose dogs that I would rather avoid them all together. Every dog I have ever had has been attacked by other dogs, I'm sick of having to protect my dogs and then defend myself from the stupid narcissistic owner.

With the retrieve you can't beat back chaining the behaviors.
On the neighborhood dogs do you have leash laws or any restrictions about dogs running loose? I would carry a stout walking stick if not. Even some pepper spray with some of the dogs.
In playing tug the dog cant get the tug every time. Make them miss.
Have fun training. They can easily see it when your faking and don't over work the dog to boredom. End on a happy note even if you have to take a step back to what you know will get a good response.

Bob, thats great advice in most cases. I am just venting here, sorry should have clarified. There are leash laws but just on one 30min walk around the neighborhood you will encounter 3-10 loose dogs and I am not exaggerating at all. West Texas is horrible for this, distemper is rampant and the shelters overflow always. It's just not worth risking walking either of them here and being attacked by Pit Bulls. We have to drive out in the country to a remote place or use certain parks when there are no people there. It's really that awful. We are moving away from here ASAP. Until then we can just do the best with what we can do for them. I've never seen anything like this, in Virginia the animal control were like police officers and if there was a loose dog and you call the owner gets a ticket and fine in 5 minutes! Even there my dogs were attacked by loose dogs, one even tried to attack ME and Logan had to protect me from a dog larger than him (and as usual, a pit type). These two are not strong enough to even defend themselves and I have just had it with protecting my dogs from attacks, literally every dog I have had has been attacked except for Ravon. A loose Pit Bull almost killed Anya about a year ago. It hit her so hard when it attacked it gave her a concussion and she still has issues from that. It took 2 men to pull it off of her. I didn't even see it coming and if they hadn't been there I'd have risked my life stabbing it to death. There is no safefty first grabbing a Pit by the back legs when it has your dogs throat.