Documenting the life and times of a Border Collie mutt
Review week 32, plan week 33 Looking at the other doggos train, and being the distraction himself. Skill reviews Zen level 2: Life-use, starting on toys. Focus level 2: counting "thousand and one, thousand and two, ... three, ... four". Maybe 5. A rare 6. Once we managed 7. Pivoting and Heel-work: Four cones in …
Journal Mid Week 26
Review week 31 and Plan 32 All the time: People, harness, muzzle, touch-for-sniff, mat. - Review: A couple of small harness sessions - mostly keeping it from deteriorating further, but not much in the way of progress. Fine with looking at a person on their own balcony doing their own thing at a 20 m …
Folks on Friday, week 31. Have you heard the term eustress? It means positive stress. Arousal, hyperfriendliness. Ecstatic. Happy - but so over threshold he can't contain or manage himself. Typically happens around 9pm in this household - or when his baby-sitter comes to visit. He is moderately trainable in that state, but no stays …
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Journal Mid Week 26
Ahem. Cutting, cutting, cutting. I never get as far as I want - and although there is merit to lofty goals, too lofty is just depressing and disappointing. So without further ado: Review July: Manners - Sit for leash is good. Sit for release, needs more work. Matwork needs loads more work. He is far …
Review week 30 and Plan 31 General review: Holy $%%&& it's hot!!!! Some bucket-splashing and river-play. Walks very early and very late. He slinks into his kennel under the stairs; back of the house, under ground, next to the mountain side. Or he lies on the cool tiles downstairs. Since those are probably the coldest …
Review week 29+ and Plan rest of week 30 I splash, you catch the wiggle-sticks (aka fish, though he didn't get much). The vacation was mostly that. We worked on sheep (scary!), cows (really scary - and potentially actually dangerous (well, the sheep too. Ewes protecting lambs, according to the farmer.)), being friendly (the farmer; …
Review week 28, plan week 29+ All the time: People, harness, muzzle, sit-for-leash (and release), touch-for-sniff, mat as needed. - Review: Touch for sniff is coming along; the life reward of doing stuff afterwards is reinforcing enough. Tried harness once, not as consistent this week what with the other stuff we've been working on. Sits …
Folks on Friday, week 28. I'm doing this one a little differently. Normally I'd record the highs and lows - and be banging my head on the desk about the lows while being blindly optimistic about the highs. That's me. I'm working on that, too. But - and if you are less spiritually inclined, you …
Tales from the Apupcalypse aka My First Dog aka Fenris 