July 2024 Pupdate for Heirloom

Posted 7/18/2024

Heirloom/Nyx has recently been in foster care with one of her favorite students, who loves keeping Nyx’s skills sharp. Before heading to foster, Nyx was essentially spending her days acting as a hearing dog for us. Instead of formal sessions, we are setting sounds off as we need them - door knocks when one of us comes home, timer for cooking/laundry, etc. We have also been using toys more as reinforcement for completion of a sound, which she loves. We don’t keep soft squeaky toys out as our dogs will happily unstuff them, so she gets extra excited to have supervised time with these types of toys.

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Black Lab Nyx lies on a pink blanket next to her new friend, a white mixed dog, while in foster care. A wire crate can be seen to the right.