(VICT) Re: Trainer's Confidence [was Re: zair]
- From: "DIANNE B. PHELPS AND PRIMROSE" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:37:11 -0700
Again, if it makes you feel better or helps, that is precisely what my field
manager said to me the other day. We were talking about my trying to do too
much too fast for my new and very soft-spirited dog and myself. His
suggestion was a good one, just slow down and back off that tough route for
a bit. We will get there, it just may need to be a little more slowly than
planned.
Dianne, Hibiscus, and Primrose
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Pawpower Pack" <pawpower@xxxxxxx>
To: <vi-clicker-trainers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: (VICT) Re: Trainer's Confidence [was Re: zair]
> Karyn,
>
> This is very true. I am always feeling this need to push push push and on
> the other hand is this fear that I'll break her because honestly she is
> probably the most perfect dog for me and I have not come across one
> worrisome thing or fear or flaw in her character that makes me think that
> she will wash out which is not a guarantee that she won't but I'm so
> afraid
> I'll mess it up some how. From Wednesday until yesterday we just took a
> break like you said; mostly because she had a big day Tuesday and because
> I
> was exhausted and was afraid to take her out around the 4th of July for
> fear
> somebody would scare her with fireworks or something.
>
> Then when we took a break I worried that she'd forget everything she
> learned
> and that I was messing her up by not doing enough.
>
> ugh; it is so much harder when you're doing it for you and your
> perspective
> is off on vacation.
>
> She went out with me this morning and was perfect and I see that all of my
> stupid worrying over all of this crap is not actually helping anything.
> ugh.
>
> Rox and the "Kitchen Bitches"
> Bristol (retired), Mill'E SD, and Laveau SDIT
> "It is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole
> state of Ohio."
> - Lafcadio Hearn on New Orleans, 1879
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>
>
>
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