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I was unaware of the Kong big stick toys but immediately ordered one. Hopefully it is waiting for me when I return home from the Mayflower Corgi Specialty on Friday evening. Rusty is on vacation until then!

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Ball Retrievers
As you know retrieving is not this retriever’s strength. I intended to use a high value treat – lamb lung – as the reward; however, he was quite keen on the game itself in the beginning so I went with that. I have included a couple reps with and without food.

One thing I did learn for sure is that turning to his left is his preferred side!

I think with Rusty getting a reliable retrieve is going to be slow and steady wins the race so I will continue to plug along. Next time I will try a tug reward and see where that leads me.

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Serps and Threadles

These seemed to go pretty well Rusty likes the Manners Minder.

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Turn and Burn on a Wing

Started with offering, then progressed from inside to outside. Staying on task outside is still a work in progress.

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Spins and Race Track

This morning we worked indoors and since the rain finally stopped, this afternoon outdoors. I did some warmup runs outdoors first but omitted them from this compilation. I was pleased as this is the first time I have asked him to follow my handling outdoors.

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Left and Right with Front Crosses, Find My Face and Restrained Recalls

I like the addition of the front crosses to the directionals.
I was pleased that Rusty came looking for me in Find Your Face. I required actually finding my face because I am working on focus in other facets of our training.
I was very pleased to see him actually chasing a toy in Restrained Recalls.

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Happy Stays

Rusty has stay experience so I amped it up a bit. He only anticipated once and I caught it pretty quickly. He is also learning to take his turn on the cot while I train Folger. That’s coming along though the current duration is far less than Folger’s. It’s valuable stay practice with distraction.

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Left Right Verbals

Haven’t gotten outside yet. It was in the mid-90s this afternoon. But we did work on just verbals. I will try to get in another short session tonight.

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Left and Right

First a morning session and then the evening session to add verbals. Rusty seemed to have fun, even more fun as he got going with it. I assume my next step is to move the sides closer to achieve bounces.

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Threadle Wraps

I think Rusty got the hang of these pretty quickly. And he seems to enjoy the work.

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Tunnels
Kiss Kiss and Tunnel Tunnel
This was actually Rusty’s first time actually working outdoors. Overall I thought he did quite well. Hopefully I can get caught up tomorrow. It’s been a very busy week.

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Just a note to say that I am headed to Maine for agility at Pineland Farms – will return on Tuesday. Will resume work then.

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360s

Well designed lessons and latent learning – I have no better explanation but Rusty seemed to know what he was doing from the start, no luring and reward on completion.

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Backside Slice Advanced

I added a second jump bump to make the serp part more realistic.

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Backside Slice Foundation

Doing Baby Level. I thought they went pretty well.

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