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I finished watching disk 1 of 4 for Grisha Stewart's BAT method. We practiced calming behaviours around known triggers - 1) the deer trail off the side of the road, 2) Sophie the St. Bernard barking from behind her fence, 3) two dogs behind their fence at the Pilates house, 4) the retriever behind its fence (away today). I am getting much better at reading Jethro's arousal patterns and catching him while he is still thinking about what to do instead of reacting after he has gone over threshold.
The beauty part is that Jethro wanted to be outside today, and watch the goings on from the yard. I tied him out on his long line (I can see him from where I am sitting working) and he was quiet the whole time he was out there. There were seabirds on the shoreline and he was just quietly watching them.
Skipper is learning to sit for the ball to be thrown instead of sproinging and boinging.
It was a good day. I am using 1/10 the leash pressure I used to apply. He is choosing to do things with me and I am not getting yanked off my feet.
I did some basic OB work with both dogs. Kenzi had some heel routines, find the keys and send outs. Kipp did some heel work, then I tried to go through his tricks at a distance. They both did nicely.
I also took them up for a run with the bosses dog. Logan (the GSD) loves the company and having someone to chase!
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I'm working with a dog, another person's new adoptee, who is afraid of big men. Today we got to the point where he can walk past one after seeing the guy approach on the same sidewalk from a block away, with no breaking stride and no barking. Breakthrough!
My "calming signals" dog walked on my other side (the "big man" side).
I betcha within a week the anxious dog will be OK on the side that the big man passes on.
A big man at his own door is in the future. (Unfortunately, his new owner attempted a bit of flooding by having a big man come over while she had the dog on a leash and kept him there while the man tried to feed and pet him.)
Interested in hear how you taught the sit out of motion to Danni. I would love to learn how to do that.
Today, we did nothing because my husband and I drove into julian (ca) and had lunch.
Tomorrow we are back at it.
Enjoy reading what you all have done.
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I basically just told her to sit while we were walking one day. I gave her a pop on the leash when I said sitz. I took maybe one or two steps past her and gradually increased the distance. She always sits she just does it slowly sometimes. She does it perfectly with the leash pop so I just need to fade that out and we'll be set.
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