https://youtu.be/vSe6CYJYtZw The good stuff (with thanks to husband behind the camera)! Particularly the move into heel at the third point is beautiful. Review 36: The agility event this weekend got cancelled - understandably, but sadly - due to an outbreak of some sort of (possibly) contagious gut disease virus among dogs in Norway. Mostly in …
Category: Training
Minor progress report midweek 36
Pwomise. Topic coming tomorrow Thursday. We are revisiting rally-skills. Plan Week 36: Heeling, start right turnDurations up to 45 secSettle/excite up to 10 secFocus and Zen 2Come 2 MonTueWedThuFriWeek-endHeelingCone-to-ConeRight turnsRight turnsCone-to-ConeRight turnsDurationsMatSettleCrateSitDownSettleFocus and ZenFocus outsideZenFocus outsideZenFocus outsideComeStep 1 advanced: 3 m outsideStep 2: 3 m for leashStep 2 advanced: Family 3 mStep 3: working up …
September overview! (And the weekly stuff)
This is kinda long, but I haz thoughts, and some thoughts need a bigger picture. My favourite tin can. Review August: Muzzle - done one fairly successful session, in addition to using it at the vet. People - well. He stacks easily, and some things are worse than others, but he can also come to …
Durations and downstays
Midweek 35 New monthly doggie-box arrived this week. It included a portable water-bowl (silicon, can be pushed flat), several new and interesting treats, and a Kong 'kazoo' toy. Sturdy plastic, low noise, good to chew, isn't going to break just by looking at it (unlike the Dogman brand which I'm quickly learning to dislike). Using …
Settle down.
Review week 34, plan week 35 In the life-skill category I've actually got around to a muzzle session (running around in the house a little with it on), and a few harness sessions. I can lay the back piece on his back while feeding him, but we are definitely not out of the woods yet. …
Short midweek report 34
(We are still alive) Sniffy bushes Review: School has started for the kids, so we are now back in a 'normal' routine in the mornings; out to pee around 7:30, and a longer walk an hour later. We do play and a good training session around midmorning - and then I try to throw him …
Snowballs and other balls.
Review week 33, plan week 34 The chip was probably at its worst this week; hopefully the darkness before dawn. Humping, snarling, snapping; he was easily aroused! Wabbit season! There are some happy snowball effects though. I have been working to reinforce a behaviour in play that is paying off in other areas: Shove the …
Wraps and counter-Wraps
Journal Mid Week 26
YES, YES, YES
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 …
Chip on my shoulder
Journal Mid Week 26
Tales from the Apupcalypse aka My First Dog aka Fenris 