Recall Day

Today Iggy was able to turn towards me when he could see the squirrel on the tree on the first call :).  We were standing on the porch, when we came out the usual birds and squirrels took off, as usual he went to the corner to watch the squirrel tree and I called and he turned and we partied !!!!!.  I can call him no problem before he commits to the squirrel so this is definitely the next step in the process.  It took a few minutes for him to engage with the tug but he did engage.  We then went to the other side of the house and had an off leash walk into the field, he was very attentive, I would pause and he would turn around and wait to be called.

About 11am we went out and did two restrained recalls of about 100ft, I used "come" instead of his name and faced him until he was about 2 body lengths away then turned and took of running.  Have to be more careful when I say go see, I was 5ft away from Bill when I said go see he did a 180 and took out Logan.  Iggy had been getting better about not taking out the boy but when he gets revved he feels everyone deserves to be bounced.

Went out again around 3:30pm and walked in RZ to the squirrel tree.  I didn't put him in RZ I just walked funny and hummed the pink panther music and he walked in perfect RZ position, he is such a funny boy.  Three times between the porch and the tree we had a game of tug.  The closer we got to the tree you could see his eyeballs trying to look at the tree and still tug.  This happened at about 5ft from the tree we tugged for about 30 seconds and then walked away.  Then when out to the drive and worked RZ.  Three times pulled him behind me and cued "Side" as he was finding the spot and I rewarded multiples using cheese.  We tugged for a bit did, then did three reps of sit release, I did cue the out should be pulling the toy out of his mouth.  There is a guy using a chain saw across the street and that noise was very distracting Iggy did the job but you could tell some of his brain was thinking about the chainsaw.

Am planning on going out and doing the other side of RZ with cue later on this evening.

I think tomorrow will be flatwork, I want to work decel, accel and get outs.