(VICT) Re: Last Night's Training
- From: "Mona Ramouni" <mramouni@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:29:00 -0500
You go, Karyn, and Thane, awesome dog!
Mona
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karyn and Thane" <bcpaws4me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Vi-clicker" <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: (VICT) Last Night's Training
> For those who are unaware, Thane is my guide dog but he is also in
> training
> to be my service and hearing dog due to multiple disabilities. Most of you
> know that right Smile
> We have not focused on training for about a week. I need the outdoor
> walking
> together and working outlets as much as Thane does to be focused on it so
> I
> just took a break- we had hit a wall so to speak anyway and sometimes if
> we
> take a break like that, the wall lifts when we start up again.
> I am training Thane to retrieve. He is not a natural at even a play
> retrieve. Just like his mother he will drop the item and nudge it to you
> LOL
> He has also not been one to offer a lot of behaviors which has made it
> trying at times.
> Anyway we are pretty much at that last stage. The stage where my hands are
> not on the item he takes or gets before he takes it into his mouth to give
> to me. Its been a real tough thing to get him to go from my hand on the
> object to my hand not on the object even with a very slow removal of my
> hand
> through steps that phase my hand out. I got some good advice last week and
> was mulling over the various suggestions. Last night I decided to do a
> quick
> session by sitting the dumbell on the recliner. It is at his head level
> and
> we can slowly work to having it at floor level. It worked! It really
> worked!
> The first couple times he picked it up cadiwompus but after that he picked
> it up perfectly. Everytime he turned to me, held it until I said give and
> then released it into my awaiting hand. I was on cloud 9. I know we are
> still a ways from this being a productive task, but we really will be able
> to do this- Thane really is going to make it as a retrieving Border
> Collie!
> Smile
> It was just so- well- fun to have something so cool happen amidst this
> North
> Pole weather we are stuck in the midst of.
>
> Karyn and Thane
>
>
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