Jackie is continuing to gain experience in the classroom setting. Our homework this week includes touch a hand target in the the 3, 4, 5, and 6 clock positions while standing. This is to reinforce looking down to the ground surface while standing. We will continue to work on 123 go, and add send to a target.
Send to a target is to reinforce distance and working out in front of the handler. With Jackie in a sit stay, I walk out to a ceramic target and place a treat, then return to Jackie and send her to the target with “Break! Go, go, go!” while pointing at the target with my hand closest to the dog. Jackie runs past me to the target and is reinforced by eating the treat off the target.
Our coach suggested we work on 123 go and send to a target with slightly increasing distractions. In other words, start indoors, then move to the back yard, then maybe the park, then the flat surface of the river trail, to begin to get Jackie used to playing in different settings and locations.
Pearls:
- Homework this week includes nose touch a hand target in the 3, 4, 5, and 6 clock positions while standing, 123 go, and send to a target from sit stay with “Break! Go go go!”
- Jackie can begin to play foundation games in different environments such as indoors, the back yard, the park, and the river trail in order to gain confidence to play in various locations
