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Hi! These are looking really strong, I am doing a big happy dance about how strong her commitment is, and how nice the turns are too!
Looking at the first video: super nice connection on the FCs on both sides! Great timing!
A couple of subtle details about the spins –
She had a question on the spin at :20 (a little bit of looking at you and a little zig-zag in her path)- you had good timing of starting it, but I think your position was very similar to the FC line position and as she exited the wing wrap, your arm was forward and your head was a little forward, so she was looking up for more info.She did not have that question at :27, when your line of motion was definitely more towards the tunnel entry you wanted, and you made a bigger connection. Having your arm back (pointing toward her, rather than pointing to the tunnel) will make the connection visible sooner and easier for you to show.
On the other side – the rotation at :36 was late starting so the FC element of the spin was late, which makes the BC element late too (so she had a little question).
Great adjustment on the next rep to start the rotation perfectly on time at :44!! Note how at :45, as she exits the wing, she is behind you and considering going to your right side – that was because you were looking towards the line near you rather than at her, so she really only saw you back there (great camera angle!)
So be sure to keep your dog-side arm back on the spin exits (pointing to her cute nose :)) and make direct eye contact to show her the line more clearly.
On the 2nd video – she has great commitment to these circle wraps – she does not really need you to look at the ‘anding’ spot, allowing you to move through really quickly (tons of countermotion!) This made things much easier when you wanted the other side of the tunnel like at :32 and :44
She had a little blooper (refusal) at :56, the only question of this session – she didn’t commit to the circle wrap on the 2nd wing, maybe just because you were running away from all the obstacles which was weird? She sorted it out nicely on the next reps though 🙂
>>so I failed to re-connect with her over my left shoulder (shoulda had toy in my left hand). Oops!>>
No worries! Her commitment looked great and you got the toy dropped on her line, so she still nailed it 🙂
Great job on these!!! She is ready for the double blinds!
Tracy
Hi! Those are all excellent song choices!!! And it is great to be able to do your visualization practice with the song too, it can really help get your brain trained to be able to work the visualizations at trials!
Tracy
Hi!
Nice job helping her figure out the layering!! It is a super useful skill!
On the first rep, you did a decel and started pointing forward before she committed, which changed the line of your shoulder so she came to you. On the other reps, you were really strong with your motion and arm support – I think the outside arm gave her the most shoulder support and supports with a lot of connection too! Plus, placing the toy helps too 🙂 She was really figuring it out nicely by the end!!She naturally turns tight over 4 so you can be closer to 6 to tighten up the 5-6-7 FC.
Like with Kippy, I don’t think you need to really do much to show her 8 other than a bit of connection and a jump verbal 🙂 That will get you miles ahead for the blind and more importantly, for the deceleration into 10.
I think a spin on 10 will also be best for her too – on the first run, you didn’t have a lot of time for decel (too much help at 8 made you a little late), so you ended up facing fully forward at :43 when she was taking off. You had more decel at 1:06 and a little rotation towards her, but then turned back to face the jump again – she did collect before takeoff but landed facing forward then had to turn after landing. I think the rotation will get her head turned over the bar so she lands ready prepared to turn the next direction, rather than landing straight then turning. It is a small detail but definitely faster to do the spin (and better on her shoulders).
Seq 3: I don’t have a ton of feedback for you about the threadle wraps, because you are nailing it! I think changing to a specific cue (circle) is GREAT because it is very different from in in! The verbal will really help differentiate the 2 different behaviors. Your physical cues were very clear as well – you might have been a bit further from the threadle wrap jump than needed, which might have contributed to her going around jump 5? But I think she read it nicely in the broken down parts then did well in the sequence as well!
This cue always has a small element of decel to it, so you don’t need to feel like you have to rush – you can hold the cue til you see her head turn and that first step to the the correct direction, then take off for the next line.
She had a rare bar down on 3 at 1:50 and missed 5 at 1:53 – I believe that was because you did not call her before she went into the tunnel, and she had just done a lot of go straight reps with that tunnel – so when she saw your acceleration, she probably figured it was a go straight rep 🙂
On the next run, you did the cross sooner (before she entered the tunnel) but I am not sure if she saw it – you called after she exited but I think the verbal happening about 6 feet before the tunnel entry (name or a right verbal) will make all the difference.
The threadle wrap there looked great on both runs! Super!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! This looked great!!
He had no trouble with the layering, so you can probably decel a little sooner (as he exits the tunnel and looks at the jump after it) to get a tighter turn 4-5. Then stay a little closer to the 6 jump t get a tighter turn 5-6. I don’t think he needed you to stop & send to 8 – you can just be kinda connected and using big verbals, to make it even easier to get up to the BC.
The decel for the wrap on 10 looked good! You rotated your feet and then turned to face the jump – once you start the rotation, you can continue through it for a spin to get the best turn. It was a really good turn but note how he looked straight until after landing because that was where you were facing. With a spin, I believe his head will be turning over the bar so the turn will be tighter and faster 🙂
Seq 3: nice opening!
You showed a little too much decel away from the 5-6 jump at :31 so he had too much turn towards you, then had to go back out to the backside wrap – stepping him back out delayed the foot rotation so the turn was wide.You can go directly to the just behind the wing of 6 and use your verbals to get the turn out of the tunnel – that will put you in a great spot to decel and also to get your feet turned to 7, to set up a lovely wrap.
Great job with the blind at the end!!!
TracyGood morning! This went really well!!! Looking at both runs:
The opening went super well in both runs here:
Nice wrap at 1! She never even looked at the off course that was right there 🙂 You can send from further away from 1, and then try for the BC between 3-4 🙂 You had it here (note how much you had to decel and wait to do the RC) – the RC worked well here, but getting the BC is a great exercise in handling aggressively which is needed for the ending line.Nice tunnel layer while she was weaving! I bet you can layer the teeter too! That will get you MILES ahead for the 9-10-11 line 🙂
One ting to consider: Yes, maintain contact criteria, but you don’t need to reward all contacts by going back to deliver a cookie (or decel like you are going to reward), for 2 reasons:
– first, it puts you out of position and out of flow for the next section (stopping then releasing and accelerating is easy for the dog and harder for us!) The bar down at :57 on the jump after the frame was because of the stop & go nature of rewarding then trying to get going again, and it and puts you out of position to get the BC after 10. The release is a strong reward too!
– second, it is significantly different than the trial experience, and the trial experience can be more frustrating because suddenly the rewards are unpredictable (no more handler decel or cookie delivery!) and that can change contact behavior
Really nice middle section of 9-14 on both runs… this is another spot where you can be more aggressive and get the blinds instead of the rears! You can handle 10 almost as a ‘German’ (backside to blind, with a bit of countermotion) to get ahead, and then another blind is possible 11-12 too!
The exit of the dog walk is a place I do NOT recommend the blind (puts you too far away from where you are going next), so I thought your switch plan was great! The switch on the first run looked good! You can send into it more, which can easily get you to the BC on the exit of the 15 tunnel 🙂 That puts you a lot closer to deal with 18, which is a really hard turn. By rear crossing all of those (RC 16, RC 17) you were facing the slice line of 18 so she jumped on a slice. Even if you are not ahead of her there, you would need to rotate your feet to 19 as she is landing from 17, so she can wrap 18 (and not back jump 🙂 ) Doing at least on blind (15-16) and possibly 2 blinds (16-17!) will make that much easier 🙂 Another option is to BC 15-16 and then stay on landing of 17 to do a threadle wrap of 18.
On the 2nd run at 14, you said switch but didn’t use the physical cues so she turned right – good thinking on your feet to keep going! That took out the option of the blinds, but you can still decel and rotate your feet to 19 after she lands at 18 (even though you will be a lot further away).
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! Welcome back, I bet the trip was amazing!
I can relate about the heat. I highly recommend moving up here to SW Virginia, where it is not nearly as brutal as the rest of the southeast or south-central parts of the country… and no snow either LOL!!!!
Nice work on these courses. Yes, these had far more bars than we have seen in a long time. I attribute it to her being maybe a little out of shape (between the heat and life and vacations, she might not be fully conditioned at the moment) and also a little rusty in her jumping skills:
I am seeing a bit of a theme about things happening over the bar (verbals, especially) being correlated with the bar coming down (more below).Sequence 1:
The Walk through looked good! On the walk through, you can look at her more 1-2-3. Also, as you move through the backside at the end, remember shift connection all the way back to the landing spot as you move forward through it to help her commit. You were looking at your invisible dog there 🙂 And you can accelerate on the go (love how you threw the invisible toy :))Run 1 – She had the bar down at 2 – I wonder if your shoulder is too far back at 2? Too open? But also, you were saying your tunnel cues.
Switch to the layering was GORGEOUS!The backside was at :33, you ran it looking at her like you did in the walk through, so she didn’t take the jump. I think the connection will really help.
On Run 2, she hit bar 2 again – arm to far back? Tunnel verbal over the bar? Both? There was no other reason for it, other than perhaps tunnel cue was distracting or causing her to rush.
Good switch on this run too! She dropped a bar here – you were further ahead on the layering here plus verbal over the bar.
You hung out at backside longer to get commitment, but that made it harder to set the go line to the last jump because you were still moving past the backside jump – that is why she had a question there (line of motion). Moving forward like you did on the first run with connection to the backside will help set that line nicely.
Seq 2 Walk through:
Yes, I can see the shoulders come forward on last layering jump as you mentioned, so there was a rehearsal of breaking connection in the walk through. When she is more experienced, you won’t need it as much but for now the connection really helps.Threadle wrap kind of looks the same as a threadle slice in the walk through – it did not have as much shoulder pull to set the line as she would need, so remember to exaggerate it 🙂
The rest looked really strong, excellent attention to position and connection!Runs –
On the first run, as she was threading, you said “yay” (or something similar) over bar 2 so it came down. She found the start of the layering really nicely! Your motion and connection at the end of the layering (where she missed the jump) matched walk through, so it is good to know that we can add more support there and she will get it!2nd run – She dropped the first bar here – maybe she was set up a little too close to the bar but also – a verbal over the bar. I totally see a trend!
That threadle wrap went pretty well!!! You can take the extra moment to slow the cues down so she sees shoulder pull then the hands to turn her on the flat. That will smooth it out! The rest also looked really good!
Seq 3 Walk through: You can lead out more to do the FC turn before she goes into the tunnel, for a tight exit line.
You can add more connection on the exit of the FC on the backside. Everything else looked really good: good choices, good connections and good lines, including good acceleration at the end 🙂Runs: the opening both times matched the walk through in the 1-2-3 section, with the FC starting after she was in the tunnel so she was wide on the exit (didn’t see the turn til after she came out). with late FC both times
You had really good connection on the exit of the FC after the backside! And a verbal over the bar, so the bar came down.
2nd run – she didn’t drop the bar on 1 but she hit it when you said ‘tunnel’.
The rest was great and she did not touch the bars even though you were talking over the bars – lovely!!!!So overall, your walk throughs are very strong. Yes, keep working on all the connections all the time, and exaggerating the shoulder pulls of the threadle wrap – but mainly, I thought you did great and your speed was matching her speed quite nicely!
About the bars… I think she is a bit rusty about keeping the bars up while you give cues over the bars. I believe that every bar here was when you were talking over it. That has not really been an issue in a long, long while – so I am not going to worry about it 🙂 As you start your jump work up again, you can throw in a couple of sessions on one jump or an easy grid, where you talk over the bar – big rewards for no touching the bar, no rewards for dropping it. Start off easy (quiet verbals, not a lot of motion) so she can be super successful, then make it eventually harder with very exciting verbals and more motion 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>but for some reason I had it in my head that my goal for anything going back more or less the same way that I wanted to position myself in center of the bar. >>
It is possible that it was taught that way because people wanted to stay off the dog’s line and that the adjustment stride was fine? I was taught (by Jenny Damm) to get on the dog’s line to set the turn and then get the heck off of it before the dog needs it 🙂
He did well on the video when you were on the correct line- no problem at all on the collected exits or the slice exits. He read you perfectly on all of them. Super! You can leave sooner on the FC/collection exits: as soon as his nose is arriving at the entry wing, you can already be turning and leaving for the next jump.
Doing the threadle wrap in isolation it was hard to know from your feet at first. It got clearer when you added he decel and that rock back step – that got your feet rotated and he read it perfectly. For example at 1:11, as he was landing from the 5 jump, you were decelerated, using the flip verbal and arm, and your dog side foot (right foot) was pointing at the 7 jump and you left foot was stepping back. Clearly that is all he needs and he read it perfectly!
If you want to test the cues, you can do a Sequence 1 (threadle slice) and Sequence 3 combo: do 1-2-3-4-threadle slice – FC backside of 6 – then you can keep going and do sequence 3 into the threadle wrap, so he can see both cues in flow and give you feedback on if it is clear or not, with no warm ups 🙂
>.Figured if I could get there for a front that I could get there for a blind.
That worked well! You had hours to get there for the FC so I am sure the blind would have been easy too!
Great job here! Onwards to package 4!!
Tracy
Hi!
>>I walked it and did not feel comfortable with the BC- although I can see how it could create a tighter turn. Will try it out. I also felt that I needed the decel to tighten up that RC turn.>>
The RC worked really well! The BC is worth playing with for when you are on a bigger course – it is the ultimate send and leave because you won’t even have time to see more than a blur of her exiting the tunnel 🙂
T
Hi! Sounds like a good trial weekend!!
Lots of good work on the videos here!
Start lines are going well! She is holding her stay really well. When you ramp her up, you can reward each trick – that way there is still a high rate of reinforcement happening, not just arousal.
A couple of suggestions on the lead out mechanics:
As you lead out, stay more connected rather than turning your back on her – the connection will let you know if she is moving, and also it will help you not have the release and the reconnection happen at the same time, because then the reconnection quickly becomes the release.
Also, you can be more precise with the line ups – be sure to line her up on your left and on your right , then lead out whichever way she is facing because when she was facing one way and you lead out in a different direction, she was moving to follow your line. If you are going to send to the barrel, line her up facing the barrel. And in the moments when she is more stimulated, you can give her an extra second or two to get settled into the sit before you lead out. If you moved away before she was really sitting, she came with you.She committed well to the barrels! Be sure to add more connection on the sends – resist temptation to look at the barrel 🙂 and look at her instead. When she ha a question at 1:45, it was because you were looking at the barrel so she was not as certain of where to go.
Tunnel rocking horses – both videos looked really good! Good job setting the barrels up pretty close to get the game started, then moving them further away. No problems with commitment to the tunnel or barrels!
One suggestion: Connect more to her eyes on the tunnel exits – note how she looks up at you when she is exiting the yellow end when you are looking ahead – she is trying to get a look at the motion so she can understand the line. The added connection will smooth out that line.
You can also use a toy for this game to add even more speed and excitement!
Simple decel games also looked really good! You can add more connection on the lead out here too so you can look at her before you release or throw the reward back without accidentally building re-connection into the release. There is a theme here: more direct connection 🙂
The releases to go forward looked great! And she did SUPER well with the collection, especially the first one in the first video, where she would really be reading the cue and not doing what she had just done a couple of times.
Note how she was looking at you on the first rep there -then on the 2nd rep, you had less connection so she started to ask questions. You added connection after that and it really helped. You can give full connection before the release – eye contact, arm pointed back to her – and she will have a clearer picture of the cues.
She did well on the 2nd video/other side as well! Yay! Try not to lean into the collection cues, that can give a conflicting cue – leaning in or taking a step can cue more extension so she was indeed going a little wider in response to that. Try to be upright and relaxed and connected, and let her do all the work 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Hi! Time is flying, I didn’t realize it had been 2 weeks!!
>>Baxter is absolutely not wanting to work in this heat.>>
Totally relatable. It has been SUPER hot and humid, and he is wearing a long coat. It is gross out! Bleh! My short hair dogs are feeling it too! It is cooler up here this week, so fingers crossed we get some cooler weather.
I also think about ethology and what the dogs are bred to do… my Papillons melt in the heat. The whippet dogs have one good sprint… that is it LOL!! The BC mixes can go longer because they are genetically more suited to working in the heat. I consider all of that when training.
>>I’ve kept a timer and training sessions (when attempted) under 3 minutes but in all honesty we don’t often get to the timer before we stop, either at his request or that I’m reading that he’s done.>>
If it is really gross and humid out, you might get 30 seconds of great work, or a minute… then be done. I liked both the videos here – the first one was a little over a minute, and the first 30 seconds of the second one were great! I think he needed a little convincing to come back but then he did finish strong on the 2nd on as well.
Does he like baby pools? Or getting wet? He seemed to want to get on the concrete (I think that is what was near the camera?) so maybe put a wet towel on it?
>>I’ve tried early sunrise and late sunset with limited success.>>
I’d aim for sunrise 🙂 And also bear in mind that toy play will heat him up even faster. My dogs generally work for food like cold cheese in the heat, rather than toys, to try to keep them cooler. But since he is not yet a foodie super short toy sessions might be best.
I have also found that getting out in the heat of the day to go for a walk, or chase a toy can really help build up some heat acclimation.
>>’m wondering if it’s an adolescent thing or a heat related absolute refusal.>>
Either? Both? LOL!
>>I’m inclined to bring the tunnel and jumps back inside for training but footing is a little slippery when his feet are wet and I honestly want him to train outside. Not all trials around here are in indoor spaces like we got used to in NY.>>
The trials in the summer around here are not worth entering – just way too hot and unpredictable with weather. The outdoor trials at other times of year are much better, and I think you will find plenty of good indoor places too. So yes, you can bring stuff indoors when there is a really big stretch of hot weather.
>>the pressure affects my handling (good training for trials, right?)>>
Ah! Great point! I feel the same – when I need to get videos filmed for the CAMP class, there is a lot of pressure at 6am to get it right LOL!!
I think the videos were really good!
On the first one, there were a couple of timing questions and also position questions:At :17 he ended up in the wrong tunnel entry – he saw you looking over your right shoulder as he exited the wing plus you were running towards the tunnel closer to where he was wrapping – when you did the blind, he considered it but then all of your motion said not to so he went into the tunnel your motion presented. Good boy, good reward!
Your timing was one step earlier at :44 but all your motion was to the wrong end of the tunnel, then you said tunnel… so he went into the one he was looking at. Good boy again!
Your connection was really good at 1:08 but more importantly, your motion was GREAT! So much clearer in your line to the correct end of the tunnel. So he got it 🙂On the Ladder wraps video, 2 really good runs here!
First run – look more at landing as you move forward, that will help support the line to the wing.
You ended up on the outside at :08 (wrong side of the wing) and freestyle a bit, but he got it and carried on really well!2nd run was really good! He really does have good commitment here and my only suggestion is to look back to the landing spot more to help guarantee the commitment. You can also use your other hand (opposite hand) to point to the landing spot past the wing as you look at it too, to help exaggerate where you want him to go with all the countermotion that is happening.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>The first time she went back for her leash (I didn’t say or do anything) and she brought it to me… Adorable.>>
It is adorable! And that is why you bought that leash – for tugging! Taking it out of the picture by having it further away is better because then, as you saw, she had the lightbulb moment of knowing what you wanted in the game.
>>I put the tug leash away, and work on the Lateral L/O with a reg leash.
Doing them separately worked well.>>Perfect!
>>So two more things. We’re not concerned with speed at this point? >>
We are not concerned about speed. We are concerned about understanding and fun and high rate of success. The speed will come on its own when she has all that, and when she is able to have big places to run.
My demo pups in the videos are all very slow LOL!!! They grew up to have a ton of understanding and now can knock out runs of close to 8 yps. Pretty darned fast, and also very accurate.
>>And she doesn’t need to be perfectly lined up for these exercises?>>
Nope! A ‘roughly right’ line up is fine.
>>If I put my hand down to try to line her up, she keep’s mouthing it like it’s something to play with. >>
For now, use a cookie lure to line her up.
>>I think eventually I’ll need a way to line her up without my hand?
You can start with the cookie lure, and then fade that to having her following your hand into the line up – the hand can eventually be pretty high for this, but start it low with a cookie in it, so that she has a lot of success lining up. And if you line her up and she sits… then you decide you don’t like where she is? You either have to roll with it and carry on, or you need to reward her and then set up differently. If she lines up then you start fiddling with position, she is going to get frustrated.
Let me know how she does with the cookie lure line up!
TracyHi!
>>I’m such a “fix it and get it right” person!
I used to be like that, thinking that maybe the dogs didn’t understand or didn’t properly hear it or something, and that they needed to get it right… until Covid shut everything down and I spent about a year just staring at video after video of handling LOL! It turns out… the errors were 99% pure handling errors and the dogs actually were reading us correctly and responding correctly, so it was confusing and frustrating to them when we stopped and fixed. Eeek! So that changed my thinking entirely and now I just carry on and fix it another time. The dogs are MUCH happier especially the young ones. Thanks, Covid LOL!!
>>I spent too much time watching her and not trusting her commitment and then I couldn’t get where I needed to be.>>
Young dogs definitely do need a lot of connection and support, so it is hard to balance that with driving to where you need to be. But I think you did a great job and she is going to be an amazing teammate!
>>We are really struggling with this. I’ve started with dropping the toy at the beginning of each session and taking most of the motion out of it (not sure if this is a good idea or not).>>
I didn’t see a lot of errors here (actually, no errors here) so feel free to leave them in the video if there are errors happening. Dropping the toy as you move forward is great! When you did this on the first reps on one wing: looked great! You can start to delay the toy drop but continue to place it behind you like you did here, as you move forward. No need to really run yet, as long as you are moving forward.
And when adding 2 in a row, remember to make a big eye contact back to her. She had a question at 1:23 after the first wrap – there was not enough connection back to her, so she was not entirely sure which side of you to be on. So be sure that your hand is extended back to her nose 🙂 and your eyes are on her eyes as she exits the wing.
>>She is starting to grab at the toy, which I assume is from frustration of not enough reinforcement.>>
Generally yes, it could be a frustration behavior. It only happened here once, at 1:17 – but in that spot, I think she thought it was tug time? Normally when she brings the toy to you, you pick it up and tug tug tug. That time, she brought it to you, you picked it up, so she was like “yay, we tug!” And grabbed for it, but you didn’t want the tugging there – so I that was more of a confusion moment than a frustration moment. But if it is happening elsewhere, leave it in the video so we can sort it out :)
Nice work here!
TracyHi! These are looking really strong!!!
On the first part, with the FCs and spins:
Rep 1 – great!
Rep 2 – this one gave you a reminder on how. Fast she moves 🙂 The BC part of the spin really late at :11, she had already seen the info to go to your left side. Good girl!
Compare to :17 – MUCH earlier! Great adjustment in timing and she got to your right side nicely!Excellent job at :33 with the spin on the other side too – I don’t think you were late there as you mentioned on the video, more like you gave a wrap cue and the way this is set up, it is more of a right turn (not an immediate wrap about the wing). So she was being a good girl and responding to the verbal and rotation.
Circles: These are SO HARD and went really well! I love that if something was not quite perfect, you rewarded and you were able to make adjustments in each rep here. That is awesome!
The first part went well! At :44 she ended up in the tunnel instead of the circle wrap: you were blocking the wing a bit, and moved forward before she even turned her head, which pushed her onto the line to the tunnel. At 1:08 you might have overcompensated a little by hanging back, which put you a little behind her but you still had great connection and she got it.
At 1:20 you were blocking the wing a bit but you didn’t move forward til she turned her head so she got it – the blocking the wing is why she was a little wider there, so be sure to let her see most of the wing before she passes you.Nice adjustment after her question at :55 where your connection a little too far forward, so you didn’t make eye contact. Compare to the next reps at 1:05 and 1:16 – great connection and dog-side arm pointing back to her!
Other side – at 1:28, you were moving sideways and looking at her so she had a question. You adjusted after that, you were moving forward better and she got it!
1:50 when she ended up in the tunnel was the mirror image of :44. Brad said “where’s your verbals” but you were indeed saying them 🙂 It was more a matter of blocking the wing a little and moving forward before she turned her head.
The other thing that was happening here was that you were looking at her (she is cute, after all :)) instead of at the landing spot past the wing like at 2:09, so she goes a little wider and you had to rotate your shoulders more. So remember to shift your connection from her cute face to the landing spot, especially as you move forward, so she can commit while you move forward.
Great job here! These are pretty fast-moving and complex (especially those darned circles LOL!) and you are doing really well!
TracyHi!
>>I start training and get caught up in what we are doing and the next thing you know….
Before training, you can create a field guide and put it on your phone: what you are going to do, and how you are going to adjust if he has failure #1 or if he jumps up at you. I do this all the time and I text it to myself or send it in messenger LOL!! Just 3 or 4 bullet points on what I want to do and things to remember. It helps a LOT when I get out there!
>>I will bring a separate clock so I can set a timer. maybe the 60 secs will also help me.>>
When using a toy, set a timer. When using treats, bring 5 with you and the rest are in the house 🙂 Those will both keep sessions short and high success! Let me know how it goes!
Tracy
