Oceanside Harbor-Puzzle-Come Game-5 25 10

Oceanside Harbor-Puzzle-Come Game-5 25 10

Oceanside Harbor-Nad & Puzzle-Parking Lot Zen-5/25/10

Oceanside Harbor-Nad & Puzzle-Parking Lot Zen-5/25/10

We started out warming up our dogs ourselves with whatever we thought would get them used to the area.
Criteria for Nad: Down/Stay w/Distance

Oceanside Harbor May 25, Webster, Rooster, Nad Level 1 all below threshold

Webster was doing PUPPY PUSH UPS, SIT, STAND, DOWN.

Oceanside Harbor May 25, Levels and Car Zen

Webster's criteria was L2 DOWNSTAY, building DISTANCE and DURATION.

Coaching Session 5/25/10

Our goal was to work our dogs in L1 behaviors within a highly distractive area. You will see Jan and Cathy starting very close together with Rooster. What the flip doesn't show is all of the people walking by; ALL of the dogs being walked closely by us, some off leash; pigeons flying in and out of the parking lot, just 50 feet from Rooster. This was a great session with Rooster.

Rooster had an interruption during his L1 Come Game; here Jan and Karen start the game again.

Since there were birds flying overhead, in and out of the parking lot, dogs and people walking by, bicyclers, skaters, cars, and new smells, we started our session with Doodling. Webster and Rooster USED to be quite reactive as soon as they saw each other. You will notice them both looking at each other and turning back to Cathy and me....LOOK AT THAT. I am working on building DURATION L1 SIT in public settings with Webster. When we have a solid L1 SIT for 30 or so seconds, we will add DISTANCE.

We all moved our cars to the other end of the parking lot due to the sun. We are now closer to the boats, water, bird and pigeon activity, so we started over again with getting our dog's attention before our training/coaching session started again.

Paws Up

Webster and I started working with low-valued treats. You will see how much more responsive he is when I upped the treat value.

We continued to work in the parking lot on a post.

Webster and I have been adding Distance in Paws Up. We took this outside and could not get beyond 2 feet....we will continue to work on Distance.