Rear End Awareness...

Lonewolfblue · 06-13-2010, 12:48 AM

Well, did a little training tonight with the doggies. It's been a little while since I brought out the paint can, so we did the paint can tonight. Chloe is still unsure of it, but she's targeting the top of the can with both paws. Her next step is both paws on the can. If I lift her on the can, she'll stay on the can til I drop a treat on accident, lol. But won't get up on her own, so still working on it. Nell is now to the point where she's getting on the can with no problem and going a little to the left and right, staying directly in front of me. Working towards being able to do a full 360. As for Lucky, the smart little guy, was doing full 360's on his first session a few weeks back. So I wanted to see what he would do, and he could easily do 360's both directions. So I progressed tonight to get him to heel position on the can and he was doing full 360's at heel on the can. That was amazing, going to have to get a video of where all 3 dogs are, maybe tomorrow if I remember, lol. Will do 1 or 2 more sessions with Lucky, then will go to a coffee can lid, which is ground level and see if he'll still remain in heel both left and right. He's going to be a fast learner. And he was having a blast doing it too, didn't want to stop, lol. I ran out of my cheese stick, so the session was over, lol. Got more in the fridge, but don't want to feed them too much cheese, wouldn't be good. Tomorrow will bring out the hot dogs again. When I do it with Lucky, he's a little slow moving his butt sideways, will keep working to build up his speed and rear end awareness. But anyways, I'm amazed at his speed in learning. Just like Betty, lol. The other 2 is no where as fast as he is at learning new things, lol. But they are learning. Chloe is the slowest of the 3, but tends to be more precise, where the BC's just want to go, go, go, lol.

**Cali** · 06-13-2010, 10:25 PM

Sounds like fun

can't wait to see videos
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**fawkese1** · 06-14-2010, 01:18 AM

*sigh* another thing that is on my "to-do list" for training with clover... thanks for reminding me!

joking... i would also love to see video, sounds like you've all been doing a pretty good job

Lonewolfblue · 06-18-2010, 12:40 AM

Well, here's another update. Chloe is up on the can, lol. It took 3 solid sessions, but now she get's on the can and is taking baby steps to the side with her rear end. As for Nell, she's still the same tonight, gets on the can fine, and does a full 360 to the right, but is having a hard time with the left. But she'll get it, she's doing well. As for Lucky, he's doing it perfectly on the can. Going to do a few more sessions, especially to the left. And he has a fun time with it as well.