February 24, 2025
Article game outside--Millie had a great time! I started to get the hang of the timing, although I am still having a hard time avoiding eye contact. The last one was almost perfect!
Two new article tracks, one from Thursday and one from today. 3/20. Slightly sketchy start, but stuck to the track nicely throughout the session. Did have to work a bit at the one corner, but found the correct direction. As an article track, we have a long way to go--she did find each and every article, but only twice, later in the track, did she give me a good automatic down. Her mind was clearly on getting at the food in the article. My timing is still off as well--it's more like two or three seconds between her starting to nose the article an me saying "Down". 3/25 (starts around 10:13). ≅300 yards, 1 turn. Good start and work on the track all the way through, although once or twice she had some difficulty recognizing the article when it was among debris or in the only long grass on the track. This time I had one piece of food in each article: if she gave me a down only after the command and gesture, she only got the one piece of food. If she gave me an automatic dow...
Ok. I must be seeing things. She is downing on an article. By choice. Happily. FANTASTIC!!! My favorite rep was the one where you tossed a treat away, she chased & ate it, and then trotted right over to the article and downed. Let’s repeat this tomorrow before we make any changed. This is awesome, simply awesome.
ReplyDelete💙 she adores you Ralph and she is so dang happy to be playing games alone with you. Congratulations.
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