[Marie Lister]

Here are three of the games we tried today.

Drive ahead and focus forward with the flirt pole. He really likes chasing the toy on the flirt pole, but he doesn’t tug it much. Anyway, I’m not sure if this is what you had in mind for use to try for using a toy? We didn’t do any with food today for this game.

Decel and turn game. We tried the first two reps with a stay, but I didn’t want to push it and did the rest with a cookie toss. I saw when I watched the video that I was dropping my hand down again early, instead of waiting till he was up to me. I will work on that for next time.

Goat tricks. Dice tends to just jump in and on things like you’ll see. I tried three different things to see if he would react differently with any of them but he didn’t really slow down much on any. I didn’t feel like I was really doing any shaping, but I figured I’d better show you what we have so you can tell me where to go with this.

[Marie Lister]

Thank you for the feedback, it makes a lot of sense.

“Dice is so cool! Is he a color-headed white? (I am describing the color correctly?)”
Yes, you are correct, he’s a color headed white. 🙂

Quick question about the Goat game….Do you want us to use an object that they can stand all four feet on, or just front feet?

Thanks again, we had a great time in class last night, I’m thrilled I got over my nerves and went for the working spot! I think it’s going to help me a lot to have another set of eyes, since I normally train alone. I’m sure Dice is thanking you already. Lol

[Marie Lister]

We played with the pregames tonight, here is our video. I put the two games clips on one video to upload. I hope that’s ok. We are looking forward to the live class tomorrow!

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