Chispa swam a little bit more today at the ponds, this time after a thrown stick. No, I don’t throw sticks for my dogs! I just tossed it out on the water so she could swim out after it. I did work on having her carry a short stick at several points on our walk …
Before I go on with the newer behaviors that I started working on with Chispa over the weekend (at the show, ringside, because I wanted to do something other than just feed her for being cute…), I want to finish up with the Two Toy Game. Obviously I’ll continue to work on it, but this …
If it seems like a lot of the things I’m doing are small and simple, well….they ARE. It’s not my goal here to provide a how to all at once, for any one behavior; that’s just not how training works at the moment. I tackle a little bit of this, and a little bit of …
The Manners Minder has long been a staple of my training – in fact, I literally wrote the book on using it for agility training. Yep. Today was Chispa’s VERY first interaction with the Manners Minder (Treat & Train, same thing), and I must say, I’m thrilled, yet again, with how she IMMEDIATELY acted as …
Yesterday I sent an email out to my email list, letting people know about my plans for this particular blog series, and the response was overwhelming. So many of you, like me, wanted to make sure you “got it right this time.” There was a lot of anxiety, worry, and stress communicated. Fear that we …