Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Some new pictures

I took all of these today after our training sessions. Zodiac did pretty good at directed jumps today and did some great gloves. His signals were ok except he was wanting to creep forward instead of sit, but eventually got it right. I only worked metal articles today since he seems to be struggling with them. We did it several times until I know he was purposefully working the pile and selecting the right one.

Legend worked in agility but it was more of a CU training session. We are trying the "Give me a Break" game. The principle behind this is you do a short high reward training session and then release them to go take a break, play, do whatever they want. You sit and wait for them to return, reward the return and then have another short highly rewarding training session. You just keep repeating this and eventually they learn that whatever they wanted to do in their free time is not as interesting as working for all those treats. Supposedly they dogs turn into freaks for training/working. Then we did the teeter several times with jackpots for doing it each time. She never hesitated on it, which is typical for at home but I figured doing it for big time treats may stick in her mind for the next trial.

Lyric is learning sit, down, and stay. She is VERY food motivated.