I have been negligent in my record keeping and the training has been sliding. I don't know if the record keeping tends to disappear when things start to go wrong or vice versa. Hopefully I will go back and fill in the missing days so I won't spend a lot of time on them, I will just say that yesterday I saw the Iggy I used to have and need to never let that happen again. I find Iggy is very much like Max forgets nothing and it quickly colours everything.
This morning I wanted a positive fun experience. I decided to do the back yard on leash, since last night the recall was not pretty in the back yard. I have to remember that all places that we had bad recalls I now need to go through and really increase my reward value by doing 100s of recalls before I give him freedom. The other thing I have to remember is his recall seems great as long as the time between recalls is pretty short the longer I let him get invested in the environment the less likely I will have the stellar recall I expect. I have complete faith that it will come but sometime the patience and work required to get there is frustrating.
So this morning we walked the backyard on leash. We did about 1/3 on the GL and the rest on the buckle collar. I worked not pulling on leash or better said coming back to me when he feels pressure on his collar. I started on the GL, when he pulled I backed up and tugged with him for turning his head. I think because of work I have done before doing Walk Away with food the pressure on the collar stresses him out but after a few times of being rewarded for turning with tugging he was getting the hang of it. We did 2 recalls about 50 feet he did fine.
I think that worked well and we were both happy with the results.
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