9 weeks
2011/03/26
Great night - she asked to get out of the crate at 6:30 so hubby took her for a pee, then put her right back in. When I woke up she was curled tight in her doughnut-shaped bed in the crate, calm and happy and looking at me.
Good: I take her out on a leash to pee. It's cold out (wasn't there supposed to be a spring this year?) - minus 18C and she's not inclined to explore. She pees immediately. If she has to poop she walks around the car once or twice. Then she's ready to come back in RIGHT NOW. She started out galloping for the door. The leash is long enough that she can run until she gets to the start of the paved walk. Then she'd run into the leash, I'd have stopped, I'd call her and give her a kibble, then I'd start walking forward and she'd gallop the remaining 10 feet to the front door. Today she was galloping to the place where she would have hit the tight leash, then turned around before she made the leash tight and came back to me. I gave her a kibble and she galloped to the door. GREAT. Lazy leash all the way!
Bad: she learned a nifty little chain when we're outside. "Hmmm. No treats in a long time. How to get mom to give me a treat? Oh, yeah, I remember! Stop, sit, don't walk. Then mom will look at me, show me a kibble, then I'll run over and get it! Cool! Boy, training humans is EASY!"
Stitch mopped the floor with her this morning. Literally. Sync lay down while holding onto a tug toy, and Stitch dragged her back and forth like a mop. Very cute.
Another training session.
I'm using her meal, which is about 60 bits of kibble, give or take (or, y'know, spill).
She didn't lose her sit when she started offering downs - she got the sit back immediately at the start of this session. I'm about a quarter of the way through telling her what it's called (Park) before I try asking her to do it - so, 40 or 50 reps with the cue so far in our explanation of sit.
I lured a down once, and she started throwing those at me again. I started telling her what the cue is.
Then we did touch. Still opening her mouth on my fingertips or licking (LOTS of licking - I almost always meet tongue when she's touching my hand), so I switched from my standard fingertips-together hand position to presenting her with my open palm and fingers. That worked better.
And on to Zen. Still licking my hand a lot. I'm going to blame the Linkable toy that she has to lick and bounce around to get treats out of. Still, it's worth it because it helps keep her occupied. She soon remembers that we're talking about Zen, but almost every time I present my Zen fist, she licks first. It is SO cute when she suddenly backs off my hand and wags her huge tail furiously: "I'm DOING it! Watch me! I can do ZEN!"
Good: I take her out on a leash to pee. It's cold out (wasn't there supposed to be a spring this year?) - minus 18C and she's not inclined to explore. She pees immediately. If she has to poop she walks around the car once or twice. Then she's ready to come back in RIGHT NOW. She started out galloping for the door. The leash is long enough that she can run until she gets to the start of the paved walk. Then she'd run into the leash, I'd have stopped, I'd call her and give her a kibble, then I'd start walking forward and she'd gallop the remaining 10 feet to the front door. Today she was galloping to the place where she would have hit the tight leash, then turned around before she made the leash tight and came back to me. I gave her a kibble and she galloped to the door. GREAT. Lazy leash all the way!
Bad: she learned a nifty little chain when we're outside. "Hmmm. No treats in a long time. How to get mom to give me a treat? Oh, yeah, I remember! Stop, sit, don't walk. Then mom will look at me, show me a kibble, then I'll run over and get it! Cool! Boy, training humans is EASY!"
Stitch mopped the floor with her this morning. Literally. Sync lay down while holding onto a tug toy, and Stitch dragged her back and forth like a mop. Very cute.
Another training session.
I'm using her meal, which is about 60 bits of kibble, give or take (or, y'know, spill).
She didn't lose her sit when she started offering downs - she got the sit back immediately at the start of this session. I'm about a quarter of the way through telling her what it's called (Park) before I try asking her to do it - so, 40 or 50 reps with the cue so far in our explanation of sit.
I lured a down once, and she started throwing those at me again. I started telling her what the cue is.
Then we did touch. Still opening her mouth on my fingertips or licking (LOTS of licking - I almost always meet tongue when she's touching my hand), so I switched from my standard fingertips-together hand position to presenting her with my open palm and fingers. That worked better.
And on to Zen. Still licking my hand a lot. I'm going to blame the Linkable toy that she has to lick and bounce around to get treats out of. Still, it's worth it because it helps keep her occupied. She soon remembers that we're talking about Zen, but almost every time I present my Zen fist, she licks first. It is SO cute when she suddenly backs off my hand and wags her huge tail furiously: "I'm DOING it! Watch me! I can do ZEN!"