Let's start with yesterday and this morning were great. He is happy, responsive, wanting to work we are having a great time.
I wrote a long email to Christine asking some specific question trying to get my head around making life a game of IYC. She wrote back that I am going from easy to impossible which is why we are having so much failure and we end up battling. Basically I am not methodically working through the steps to that level of difficulty, call it proofing or testing the value. When testing the value you have to have management tools in place so if Iggy makes the wrong decision I can let him know it was the wrong decision, ideally by managing the environment and not the dog.
I got Bill to help me do some recalls yesterday. In the kitchen, dog in a stay, me 15 feet away and Bill the distraction. We did 4 reps using a bag of treats in his hand as the distraction, the only time Iggy even looked was when Bill threw a bunch of treats on the floor and then Iggy looked but kept coming.
This week I start classes again and Tiffany has offered to help me with proofing other dogs. I need to create a plan to get the perfect recall of at least her dogs and hopefully it will transfer to all dogs.
I wrote a long email to Christine asking some specific question trying to get my head around making life a game of IYC. She wrote back that I am going from easy to impossible which is why we are having so much failure and we end up battling. Basically I am not methodically working through the steps to that level of difficulty, call it proofing or testing the value. When testing the value you have to have management tools in place so if Iggy makes the wrong decision I can let him know it was the wrong decision, ideally by managing the environment and not the dog.
I got Bill to help me do some recalls yesterday. In the kitchen, dog in a stay, me 15 feet away and Bill the distraction. We did 4 reps using a bag of treats in his hand as the distraction, the only time Iggy even looked was when Bill threw a bunch of treats on the floor and then Iggy looked but kept coming.
This week I start classes again and Tiffany has offered to help me with proofing other dogs. I need to create a plan to get the perfect recall of at least her dogs and hopefully it will transfer to all dogs.
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