First, before I forget -Kelly, awesome new pic!!
BTP -Lauren I just encountered something similar with my puppy...she has this weird new habit of walking on high curbs and thin ledges -I have no idea why -she's a character. But I think it's neat and maybe could be helpful for agility some day.
So when she started doing it consistently on every walk I would just mark it -that was last week.
Now, adhering to the old "name it when you love it" I've started formally shaping it with the cue, "walk the plank" before the beginning of the ledge...
Could that work with Tasha's "dance" somehow?
And let me know about that Assistance DVD...cuz I really need a new Leerburg DVD!!

This is probably sick of me, but I really want to make a video of this dance and put it to music. Its this really funny move she does, and the crazy thing is that it seems to fit the rythym. She does this dramatic head twirl paw slap combo.

So cute!

She only does it to hip hop. If I'm dancing around to other styles of music she doesn't do it. It seems she really likes Missy Elliot and Jay Z.

So today we were dancing around my kitchen to "brush your shoulders off" as I did some house work, and I thought to myself "I HAVE to capture this somehow!"

Dogs are awesome.

That IS awesome-DO IT!! Tash's jigga man jive!!

I am doing the same DVDs with my little one. I taught her to touch the extension stick with a ball at the end, I also taught her to touch a sticker and then I put the sticker all over the place and she goes and looks for it (not on the DVD, it kind of just evolved).

I taught her to touch a placemat with her front feet.

I got stuck on the step where she is supposed to touch the bed bug toy. I purchased the toy and when it came she was so scared of it... I just put it on the floor and left it there for several days, then I started pouring her dinner over the toy and she ate it from the toy (my trainer told me to do that). After several weeks of that she is now touching it with her nose. I have yet to teach her to paw it.

I have been teaching her to step on a rubber feed bucket instead because it's not as hard and noisy as the toy and she had been doing that so we will see how long before she allows me to lure her to step on the toy....

Next thing I will be getting is the target ball on a stick.

I love the DVDs and she loves learning the behaviors. Totally worth the money.

Good to know!

I thought it would be fun to have some completely new stuff to teach, and a good learning experience for me to do the step by step.

Unfortunately after I got the dvd my laptop broke and I haven't been able to watch them. Sometime in the next week I will be getting a new laptop and then we can get to work!