Foster thanks you tremedously for all the warm compliments (he is a real ham for attention).

The more I think about it, I really do not want to employ the training collar. I believe that Foster will learn very quickly. The reason his barking is reduced during the day is due to less traffic and his crate being away from the door. When he is in our bedroom, the barking is elminated. However, we cannot all live in the bedroom. He learned not to sit on the couch, I think he can learn barking at the door is a no no.

I was heartbroken to spend the whole summer away from Foster, but it was justifiable for the situation. Everytime I missed him, I had to remind myself that he was at family member's home playing in a yard with another aussie (his half sister) and another dog. The alternative was sitting in his crate for over 12 hours, living in a smaller apartment, and not even having a field for frisbee. It would have been selfish of me to take him with us. Being at the still impressionable stage, he did learn a few bad habits, but we quickly rememdied those!