Meds @ 0800
Fetch indoors; glow ball. Worked on sit/platz/leave-it fetch.
Zero failures with Leave-it, even throwing/kicking the ball full force. Solid response indoors.
Fetch indoors; glow ball. Worked on sit/platz/leave-it fetch.
Zero failures with Leave-it, even throwing/kicking the ball full force. Solid response indoors.
Half-breakfast walk. Really tight leash the whole walk. Alternated between head collar and harness, but didn't seem to make a difference in how he pulled ahead. Worked on treating him for staying close, but he was more interested in sniffing the environment.
Reacted towards triggers:
Minimal reaction with car passing by. Gave him the special cheese treats as they went by. He seemed to do ok with it, but took the treat a little aggressively.
Trigger-stacked response with human walking towards us: We were on the snowed-in sidewalk; human was walking on the road-side. I continuously gave him treats as human came closer and walked past us. Retrospect I should have taken him down the side road until the human went by, but I wasn't sure which path the human was going to take. As human walked by us Temba lunged and barked at him. I held him by the harness and continued treating him. He remained a little hyped for another few minutes. I continued cheese treats until the end of the block.
Minimal reaction with car passing by. Gave him the special cheese treats as they went by. He seemed to do ok with it, but took the treat a little aggressively.
Trigger-stacked response with human walking towards us: We were on the snowed-in sidewalk; human was walking on the road-side. I continuously gave him treats as human came closer and walked past us. Retrospect I should have taken him down the side road until the human went by, but I wasn't sure which path the human was going to take. As human walked by us Temba lunged and barked at him. I held him by the harness and continued treating him. He remained a little hyped for another few minutes. I continued cheese treats until the end of the block.
Downtime. Capturing calmness. Treated with chicken when he heard dog bark outside.
Went outside ~ 1130. Put the ball away at first, and just let him sniff around. Was hoping the neighbor dog would come out and we could work on counter conditioning, but did not appear. Picked up poop by the fence. Furminator to get some of his shed off. He saw the ball as I came back out with Furminator, so I let him get the ball. Rewarded staying still for me brushing his fur with playtime.
Poop before reentry.
Poop before reentry.
Downtime back inside
Left him with PB bone and Toppl full of rest of his breakfast.
Intermittent downtime alternating with tug time .
Outside for Fetch, pee/poop.
Dinner (which is actually his breakfast) in Toppl.
