I want to report that Jackson is doing great!!  I know that you remember how anxious we were when we began the process of training him.  He was so frightened at first and we thought it would never work for him because he’s so sensitive, but Kathleen was so great reassuring us that he would get used to the stimulation from the collar and understand that we were his safe place.  Lo and behold, it has been a miracle.  We wanted to be able to allow him to run off leash in the woods, but he was completely unreliable about coming back because of hound ancestry.  His nose would take him and we would spend hours worried about whether we would ever get him back.  Thanks to all of you we walk him now off leash…he has fun sniffing and exploring and we are relaxed that we aren’t going to lose our special little friend.