down

 

I went back and captured her downs because I had done it first by luring but she had not been super solid on them, sometimes thinking it meant sit if you are standing and down if you are sitting. she was also doing them very slowly. I wondered if she didn’t like doing them, didn’t quite know the criteria or maybe had some bad association so I just rewarded her for spontaneous laying down for a couple days, clicking as her elbows hit the floor.

 

come

come is one of those behaviors that seems so hard you dont even want to work on it. but man, she loves loves loves the come game! its been so fun to work on. to test 40 ft we had to test outside at a local tennis court. I wasn’t sure if it would be too much distraction, but the first time we went she did it PERFECTLY. we went four more times and had varying levels of distraction with one scary escape where she squezzed through the door,ran out, peed, and then to my suprise ran back in to keep playing! i still can’t completely convince myself she will ever be able to come through a crowd or “milling dogs”…but we will see in level three, won’t we?