When they roll around like that, it's because they found something they like the smell of, and they're trying to rub it on themselves. Mine usually finds the stinky stuff. lol

The “under” command is amazing 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 good job Astro!

loving the channel!!!

Yasss e collar training is a great way to communicate with dogs

You guys are such an amazing team! it's so funny seeing how similarly you interact with your dog vs how I interact with mine XD Honestly watching your videos is really inspiring, as seeing that he's still learning, and it seems like all the other handlers I see are already really far into their training, so I can't relate to them as much

Just wanted to say you're doing a really really good job with him!! Everything you're doing is so great. Ecollars are the best tool for off leash freedom (actually the only one that makes being off leash actually safe) and your markers are perfectly timed! I'm a dog training enthusiast and soon-to-be professional and I love watching you work. 👍👍👍👍

Your doing a great job, love your videos, I am in the process of training my 7 month old puppy to be my service dog. Picking up fantastic tips from you thank you for sharing. Astro is loving,caring and a great companion ❤ from the UK

You guys are great I have a walker and I use a thunder shirt I have to use a walker

At 15:30 when he is rolling on the ground it’s because they will find a dead worm or something that smells bad and roll themselves on it. Idk why dogs do that but they love it 😅

I love your dog

I didn't realize you're from Connecticut I also got a puppy from North Haven not too long ago and trying to train it as a service dog

This is actually quite helpful. My 5 month old great pyrenees puppy is great with sit and stays. However, she needs work on ignoring people, so this was extremely helpful seeing as how this is the first time I've ever trained a dog to help me with my P.O.T.S before, and most people are really rude and say I have to pay for her training yet she does wonderful at home.

You guys are such an amazing team its so entertaining! I love these videos sm because it helps me know what i can do inside stores while training my own dog haha! sometimes i just dont know what to do or work on while im there! Do you use a gopro while filming? How do you get the perspective?

You’re doing an awesome job with Astro! (New Subscriber :) And I have a question: I also have a YT channel, and I Vlog with my dog going to pet-friendly places. I was wondering what kind of camera mount you use to film? It looks so nice to be able to have both your hands free! Thank you very much in advance! 😊

I am having a heck of a time trying to get my dog to do “under”!

How does this e collar work. Don't look like a actual collar around the neck. I am thinking about one.

Do you plan on getting a vest in the near future? I don't know what your colors are but I have some blue vests for sale (L) or I could take a loss and send you one as a "throw away" vest for when you do random things and you don't want any other piece of gear to get dirty.

How did you initially train auto focus? My SDiT Jag is really struggling with that and since it's a foundational skill we haven't gotten too far yet in training

When did you start introducing the harness and how?

Do you have pots

Door Threshold FTW! ❤

i deleted my other comments because they're pretty much useless, i underestimated the training of the dog and basically repeated a bunch of stuff you already know but i just wanted to add that i think you should take off the leash wraps indicating he's a service dog in training when he's just on a regular walk, not training. it's important to understand that when you have the leash wraps on saying that it's a service dog in training, you're repping every service dog team (and service dog, whether you like it or not- because the general public just kind of works that way unfortunately). if you're going on a casual walk people will begin to think that a dog pulling ahead, sniffing, and stopping every 2 seconds is regular service dog behaviour, making it hard for regular people to identify a fake service dog, as well as possibly get you fake-spotted (it'll happen eventually but the lower amount of times it happens the better, just not a situation anyone likes, really /lh) another thing i noticed is that you aren't correcting him when he moves out of the heel or rushes through the store doors? not with the e-collar i mean, just verbally. saying 'no' or using a marker (correction) noise goes a long way. a small correction noise will go a long way with really getting down and understanding that heel, that you expect him to heel even when he's distracted or even when he wants to move forward. ignoring it won't help since he doesn't know what he's doing isn't desired behaviour. my dog is very good at heeling but sometimes she gets too far ahead and breaks heel, a small verbal correction is all she needs to get back into a heel. trust me, it's very helpful (as long as your dog responds well to correction, usually australian shepherds do, but for small sensitive breeds one may avoid correcting too much) and also consistent words ! i notice you're using 'free' when you want him to get up to heel, but i was under the impression that 'free' was your release word. it's important to not mix the two because he'll get confused when you say 'free' and then get upset that he's just ran off to eat food off the ground or (hypothetically) run up to a stranger instead of heeling

Looollllll

I don’t think you should allow anyone to either talk to your service dog, or worse, pet it. They should be totally focused on you and you alone.

The amount of people that come up and still try and talk to them is annoying. 🤦‍♀️