Xen

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October
20 Lessons
- Xen's first day - pocket hand, front, toys, switch, fetch
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- First bite development and second session of pocket hand
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- Car socialization
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- Platform, nosebridge, chin rest & a little play
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- Start of tiny tugs, toy returns, and more heeling
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- Visiting the horse park!
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- Shaping fly, touch, and retrieve
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- Switch with bite toys and retrieve
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- Heeling without a cookie! Plus more on shaping touch, retrieve and fly
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- Switch, nose target, back up, front, retrieve, cones, and fitness
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- Switch game and contact heeling
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- Play at tennis courts
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- Cones, contact heel, catch, and switch
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- Interactive play with toys in house
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- Interactive play with toys in the house
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- Tennis courts - catch, chase, sit to stand, pivots, retrieve
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- Play with two toys
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- Full session: frisbee, fitness, heeling, and bitework
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- Scent work after a few days
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- Searchie bar
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November
26 Lessons
- Scent Articles: Lesson 1
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- Articles: Lesson 3
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- Increasing fight drive
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- Restrained recall
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- Shaping retrieve, personal play, and toy play
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- Bite development - pushing in
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- Shaping with "Energy"
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- 3rd session on bite sleeve
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- Tug, ball in hand, pivots, and ball
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- Leg sleeve - 3rd session
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- Pushing Bite and stand to down on platform
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- Retrieves! The secret sauce
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- Pushing bite and stand to down on platform
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- Getting on sleeve
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- Shaping play
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- Retrieve - the "anti-click"
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- Introducing switching between toys and food
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- Shaping play part 2
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- Socialization to things
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- Using scatter for ball feelings
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- Personal play with a tarp
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- Playing tug with another person
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- Two toy game for ball possessiveness
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- Growling - fun or insecure?
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- First search for mondioring
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- Whistle recalls with other person and dog
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December
33 Lessons
- Flirt pole for out
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- Scatter for toy release
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- Out, switch, discrimination, and failure!
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- Start of impulse control with flirt pole
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- Close retrieve, contact heeling for toy and other stuff
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- Normal unsure puppy behavior
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- Socialization without greeting
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- Possession - hard morning!
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- Clarity of position cues and discrimination
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- More shaping with toy and food switching
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- Shaping place with a toy
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- First shaping around cone with toy
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- Second shaping around cone with toy
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- People are boring fail
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- First lesson in hand down for heeling plus more food training
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- Two toy issues - holding the first toy
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- Distraction, nose bridge, retrieve and arm down position
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- Success with returning toy and scatter
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- Increasing arousal through play to get a successful "out"
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- Rebuilding trust around toy
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- Circle walking method around horse park
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- Huge improvement in building trust
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- Progress in heeling
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- Retrieve: proofing the hold
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- Self control and ball play compilation
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- Adding stress and going "straight" into stress
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- Adding restraint, handling impulse error and hoarding
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- First lesson heeling for toy
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- Heeling outside for toy second time
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- Fronts from the beginning
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- Holding toy in work plus first toy releases
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- Raising criteria in contact heeling
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- Training away from home with a friend
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January
43 Lessons
- Pushing heeling, contact heeling and games
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- First rotation and control for bite with another person
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- Nose touch and leaving work
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- Heeling with cue discrimination and adding an object to contact heeling
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- Scent discrimination
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- First time with the jump
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- Life skill - dealing with barking when people arrive to house
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- Retrieve with sit and scent work error
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- Bite techniques for pushing in and toy return
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- First session with sit in heel
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- How to encourage "pushing in" in tug
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- Second lesson on front for a toy with platform
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- Fronts - adding the cone for speed & distance
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- Pressure vs. Pushing in
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- More fronts!
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- Raising Criteria in Scent Discrimination
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- Out vs Whistle Recall Confusion
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- Cueing your heeling
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- More pushing in toy training
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- Moving leg sleeve onto body
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- First down and out combination
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- Day at the park with distractions
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- Fitness via positions
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- First bite work with decoy
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- Part 2 of first bite work session
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- Juxtaposition training - contact heeling vs regular heeling
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- Contact heel, go outs, and formal heeling
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- 3rd session with the decoy!
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- First out, guard for toy, contact heeling, guest arrives
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- Rhythm in heeling
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- Stress and cue discrimination
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- Pivots
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- Jumps in front of platform
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- Guarding decoy, accessories, face attack
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- Go to platform, contact and formal heeling
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- Retrieve from ground
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- Dumbbell retrieve from behind
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- Hard verbal correction in heeling
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- First 5 minutes of training
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- Chair and contact heeling
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- Speed, impulse control and discrimination
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- Unedited cue discrimination
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- Structured shaping vs. Luring
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February
15 Lessons
- Release from leg sleeve onto toy
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- Fast-paced heeling with natural arm position
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- Position Changes
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- First release off sleeve
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- Retrieve novel object success
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- Proper release off toy
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- Object guard
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- Handling overrotation in heeling
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- Parallel walking
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- Removing props
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- Responses to "out"
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- First out & down off leg sleeve
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- Patterning high jump and flyball
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- Fitness
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- Patterns to a place or object
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March
16 Lessons
- Escort - follow toy without biting
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- Down for object guard retrain
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- Unpredictable and adding cues
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- Games to maintain attention
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- Back to foundations
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- Settle stay in training area
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- Unpredictability & adding cues
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- Problem solving 4-foot box turn for flyball
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- Habituation
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- Introducing the bite suit
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- Behavior work at home
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- Clean outs off bite suit & toy play
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- Restraint at the vet
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- Skills & cue transfer with another person
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- Control around suit & working on cues
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- 4 Games for decoys
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April
19 Lessons
- Front drills
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- Heeling drill: pulling right
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- Adding cue & cue discrimination
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- Look and go to toy
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- Adolescent ass crate training
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- Car crate training
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- Collar grab to toy
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- Fronts: Removing hand help
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- Leash skills, food refusal, contact and cavaletti
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- Work in public with focus games
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- More work in public with speed
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- Working with Dawn + get ready cue
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- Car socialization to people without food
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- Muzzle training
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- Harness training
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- Bite work gear training
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- Food refusal + down to stand
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- Mondio obedience and bite work
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- Unedited routine training
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May
29 Lessons
- Fast stand and stop for relaxation work
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- Park and pairing distractions with play
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- Away from home and ready to work
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- Sendout in front of toddler area
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- Arm behind head heel position
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- Chin rest for retrieve
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- New object hold
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- Holds: reducing value
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- Issue with retreive
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- Object guard progress
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- CGC prep + reducing possession
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- Send outs away from home
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- Contact heeling with "get ready"
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- Object guard in distraction frame
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- Send out and escort
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- "Out" from high arousal
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- Adding obstacles to contact heeling + intermediate skills
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- Informal walk - leash skills
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- Moving from house to training area
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- Object guard with wheelchair
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- Object guard with bite suit
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- "With me" from house with punishment
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- Wheelchair object guard
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- Object guard with a new object!
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- Subtle shaping
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- Distraction and position changes in the house
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- Working with decoy, Jake
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- New object guard
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- Retrieve with problems
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June
32 Lessons
- 6.1 - Hunt game in house
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- 6.2 - Hunt games outside
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- 6.3 - dogs in house with workers outside
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- 6.4 - Fronts & holds with tug toy
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- 6.5 - Entries for bite suit work
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- 6.6 - Position changes for lots of food
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- 6.7 - Adding accessories to bite work
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- 6.8 - retrieving different objects showing errors
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- 6.8 - Head cues for heeling
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- 6.9 - Jumping Foundations
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- 6.10 - Jumping Fitness
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- 6.11 - Jump Foundation Progression
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- 6.12 - Object Guard Progression
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- 6.13 - Unedited Jump Training Fitness
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- 6.14 - Speed Changes in Object Guard
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- 6.15 - Contact Heeling Challenges
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- 6.16 - Escort Challenges
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- 6.17 - Defense of Handler
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- 6.18 - Impulse Control for Stay
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- 6.19 - Position Changes Improving
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- 6.20 - Object Guard Progression Recap
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- 6.21 - Jumping Style & Send Outs
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- 6.21 - New Decoy
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- 6.22 - Counter conditioning
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- 6.23 - Jumping & Release Games
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- 6.24 - Counter conditioning continued
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- 6.25 - Position Changes for toy & whistle recall
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- 6.26 - Body Language
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- 6.26 - Pool Games
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- 6.27 - Engagement
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- 6.28 - Go Outs / Send Away
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- 6.30 - Whistle Recall off Sendaway
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July
38 Lessons
- 7.1 - Contact Heeling
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- 7.3 - Retrieve Fixes
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- 7.4 - 30" Elevated Jump
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- 7.5 - Spiral Training
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- 7.6 - Retrieve to hand
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- 7.8 - Closer retrieves with distress
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- 7.9 - Combining retrieve skills
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- 7.10 - Activities to Encourage Retrieving
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- 7.10 - Escort on Suit
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- 7.11 - Defense with Sitting
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- 7.11 - Jumping Failure & Success
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- 7.11 - More Fetch Games
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- 7.12 - More Retrieve
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- 7.14 - Retrieves & Slow Motion Jumps
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- 7.14 - Position Changes for Style
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- 7.15 - Refining Fetch
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- 7.16 - Discs for Jump Pattern
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- 7.17 - Importance of Clarity
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- 7.18 - Cuddle Cue
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- 7.19 - Prey Sequence for Clean Outs
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- 7.20 - Food play & drive switching
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- 7.21 - More drive switching
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- 7.22 - Retrieve to hand
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- 7.23 - Pool Retrieve
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- 7.23 - Proofing Defense of Handler
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- 7.23 - Elements of retrieve with new objects
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- 7.24 - Flyball box work
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- 7.25 - Retrieve Weird Objects
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- 7.26 - Moving chair in retrieve
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- 7.27 - first lesson in search pattern for Mondio
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- 7.27 - Coaching Jake for Search
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- 7.27 - Making it weird
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- 7.28 - Retrieve stuff from chair
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- 7.29 - Defense of Handler with helper
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- 7.30 - Hold random objects
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- First time jump
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- Flyball - Passing dogs
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- Flyball distraction training
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August
19 Lessons
- 37" Jump
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- 8.3 - tuck front and sit with ball and at heel with sloped platform
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- 8.3 - Tuck sits and full session
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- 8.4 - heeling update
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- 8.5 - Food refusal
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- 8.5 - search away from home
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- 8.7 - Jumping video
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- 8.10 - food for positions
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- 8.11 - using suit to search
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- 8.12 - cues, objects & guarding
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- 8.13 - cue discrimination with objects
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- 8.15 - wood on ground
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- 8.17 - arm position to stop forging in heeling
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- 8.18 - Retrieve While Standing
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- 8.20 - Position Changes
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- 8.22 - Stay & Positions
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- 8.24 - Jumping
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- 8.27 - Stay for Jumping
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- 8.30 - Close Fronts Holding an Object
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September
25 Lessons
- Crowding in heeling
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- Flyball tournament - out of crate
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- Toy release (clean outs)
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- Toy play, outs, and start pivots with toy
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- Human error causes dog error
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- Small space skills: targeting the wedge for bite work
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- Targeting & pivots for bite work
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- Scentwork & Retrieve
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- First decoy
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- Adding formality for trial prep
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- Scent work: mixed pile
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- Shit happens -- respond accordingly
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- Positions and heeling struggles
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- Dominance or Confidence?
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- Fronts with & without toy
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- Working with toys off body
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- Positions with toy off body
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- Handling errors in position changes
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- Start of call off with food refusal and fun with fast cues
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- Positions: more experiments
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- Heeling games for focus & precision
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- Positions in bite suit
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- Pressure Release
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- Jumping & fronts
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- Reinforcing biting
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October 2022
26 Lessons
- Positions without platform
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- Bite work: bite development
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- Bite development, fronts, scent work, and stuck!
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- Hard retrieve & heeling with hand down
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- Bite work with Dawn
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- Retrieves & Positions
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- Pain, anger & training
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- Toy & fly for heeling
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- Fronts: all the games!
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- Heeling & cuddles
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- Toy behind for positions
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- Around, jump, stay & heel
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- Fixing heeling & fronts
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- Habit or conscious thought?
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- Xen vs. fishie
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- Stay
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- Leave it to goats: start to finish
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- Jumping
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- Small space skills + rewarding errors
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- Error of positions
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- Proofing stay with distractions
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- Positions, object guard & down stay
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- Calm in crate at flyball
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- Tent for object guard
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- Chasing in flyball
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- Flyball weekend recap
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November 2022
15 Lessons
- Behavior chain to lower arousal
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- Missing jump
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- Reducing reinforcement
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- Front or back clip harness?
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- Jump to send out
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- Positions in heel + lion Xen
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- Concepts around reward placement & positions
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- Classical conditioning for contact heeling & positions
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- Positions, errors, and pressure
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- Third flyball report
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- Games for flyball
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- Push while biting me and pressure
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- Hold until told otherwise
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- Arousal modulation via choice of work
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- Object Guard
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December 2022
29 Lessons
- Contact heeling - make it practical
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- Retrieve odd objects - errors & contact heeling
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- Errors in search + toy play and removing hand in fronts
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- Easy tug + object guard with accessories
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- Forging, contact heeling and human error
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- Long down stay
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- Error of anticipation, or arousal?
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- Garbage truck distraction
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- Object guard - accessories/cues
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- Jumping proofing
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- Position changes with challenges
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- Listening games with a toy
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- Breaking performance-reward relationship
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- Challenge retrieve
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- Removing hand help for fronts
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- Challenging down and sides for positions
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- Stay out of sight with distractions
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- Prevent forging with middle
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- Increase jump, forging prevention, and long stay
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- Retrieve error, desensitization and impulse control!
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- Testing obedience exercises
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- Come close with toy
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- More contact heeling proofing
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- Train for bad weather
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- Focus on errors
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- Backing up for food or toy
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- Attention games
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- Object hold with errors
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- Reward distracted behavior
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January 2023
27 Lessons
- First time backing up with gates
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- More positions and backing
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- Quiet hold and desensitization
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- Adding an obstacle
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- All positions and quiet hold with impulse control
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- More obstacle
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- Fight without tug
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- Play without tug
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- Tiny object retrieve
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- Retrieve over obstacle
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- Problem solving front with object and escort work
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- Positions
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- Prepare for call off
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- Adding pressure to obstacle
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- Handling error by being more wrong
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- Control Games
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- Different perspective of heeling
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- Heeling, distraction, and front
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- Fetch the tent
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- Heeling Progression
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- Looking Away in Heeling
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- Latent Learning
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- Attention From Front
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- Learning Isn't Linear
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- Escort: Adding Challenges
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- Sendaway and using nose
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- Generalized Leave-It
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February 2023
22 Lessons
- Heel vs. "with me," errors, and reducing arousal three ways
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- Scentwork games
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- Heeling warm up and jump anticipation
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- Contact heeling with other dog present
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- Escort: breaking it down
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- Retrieve new object
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- Challenges: make the basic work easier
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- Whole session condensed
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- Why?
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- Building confidence for positions
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- Ring entrances
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- Arousal, motivation & ability
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- All jumps plus handling errors with reward
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- Object guard accessories
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- Escort with obstacles
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- Cleaning up the out
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- Drop cue and unpredictable in jumping
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- Lure with toy and drop cue
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- Arousal around flyball via work
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- Fixed jump anticipation and muscle memory positions
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- Broad jump, positions, and criteria increase
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- First toy export with another person
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March 2023
30 Lessons
- Broad jump - fail to success
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- Broad jump - next session
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- Full session - lightly edited
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- Heeling and side - all from one session
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- Errorless learning for positions
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- Free shaping object guard
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- Bits and pieces - mostly shaping to increase criteria
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- Distracted - what to do?
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- CGC prep - first session
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- CGC prep - second session
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- CGC prep, positions, articles, jumping and more
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- CGC prep - next steps
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- Positions with prop and human change
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- Classical conditioning for hard positions
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- Object guard - back to foundations
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- More object guard fixing
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- Arousal switching around out, OG, positions, and heeling
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- Positions, toy refusal and object guard
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- Tug to cement positions
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- Arousal and distraction around cows
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- Chin rest with new object, fitness positions, object guard and heeling
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- Easy tug, fitness positions and object guard
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- Positions via fitness
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- Using work for calming
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- CGC - Go under hands
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- Precision for heeling and fronts
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- Determining relative value of toys
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- Positions with boards
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- Scent articles, partially hidden
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- Splitting and raising criteria
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April 2023
23 Lessons
- Girl problems? Try this!
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- Flyball acclimation
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- What is latency?
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- Sped up! Down stay, contact and formal heel
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- Removing hand help
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- Sit position on platform and grooming on side
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- Object guard distractions
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- Reward positions matters, gunfire, applied heeling games
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- Transfer bite work skills
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- Proof your positions
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- Object guard - new things
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- Splitting - pick your focus!
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- Environmental pressures
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- Accessories - needs work
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- Need a decoy!
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- Flyball tournament - HOPE!
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- Drive with clarity and sendaways
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- Positions - adding distance
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- Freeze indication
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- Advance nosework indication
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- Lower leg targeting for bite work
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- Biting for calm
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- Pivots and knee bends for puling back
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May 2023
14 Lessons
- Targeting
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- Denise improve skills and desensitization
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- Scent work with retrieve and heeling distractions
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- Experiment with pivot and stick work
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- Lower leg targeting
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- Biting skills
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- Creative ideas for positions
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- Positions with bite suit and targeting
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- Ready to work test
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- Targeting skills
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- Stay training
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- Stability in positions
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- Focus on heeling
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- Precision drills for positions, fronts, and release
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June 2023
20 Lessons
- Stay - because "I said so"
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- Fronts, finishes and release game for breaks
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- Positions not facing me and heeling
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- Fixing Xen's Flyball Turn
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- Helping vs. proofing - can you tell?
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- Front to finish - with or without a platform
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- Back to foundations
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- Listening - Working fronts and outs
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- Meeting a new decoy
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- Denise bite training
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- Bite work with pivots, heeling and sit at halt
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- Bitework - teaching pushing in
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- Bite work - what's the most reinforcing?
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- Bite work - what causes wrapping?
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- Bite suit is a toy
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- Increase intensity without increasing arousal
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- Speeding up release of tug
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- Push me down and hold me there
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- Bite work is make believe
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- Testing our obedience
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July 2023
27 Lessons
- Left turn, halt and changing reinforcement strategy
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- Toys off body
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- Biting for fun and toys on ground with attention at heel
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- Discrimination - heads up or attention forward
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- Gunfire - more options
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- Pressure over errors and pushing precision
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- Balancing front feet
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- Precision foot placement in the house
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- Box turn for both dogs
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- Good positions, quiet hold, and pivots in bite work
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- More Denise pivots
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- Pivots with some success
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- Ball holds with corrections and true pivots for bite work!
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- Creating chain with hold and front, pivots and push
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- Denise and pivots
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- Struggling with right leg bites and proofing positions
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- Elements of stay
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- More stay plus challenging positions
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- Positions with and without props - emphasis on down to stand + bite work pivots
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- Closer front with higher head and testing down to stand
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- Arousal - handling with toys and tension
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- Quiet mouth with toy or dumbbell and positions
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- Using environment to proof arousal modulation in work
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- Training with contrasts
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- Finishes using cone, back up and position changes
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- Error within a long chain
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- Flyball end of run routine
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August 2023
27 Lessons
- Using contrast for understanding positions, back up, fly, and stay
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- Errors in contrast work
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- Adding challenge with contrasts
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- TEAM training - fly, fronts and finishes
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- TEAM training - bits and pieces
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- Using cones to create energy, control and speed!
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- Rewards - when, why and how
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- Heel when expecting ball
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- Stay forever
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- Marker words as release from work
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- Focus forward with chickens in new location
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- Behavior work around chickens
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- Object guard and fixing middle to heel
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- All middle to heel and side plus OG
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- Marker cues
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- Object guard needs help
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- Addressing a slow toy release
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- 7 minutes of chicken behavior work sped up!
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- Out vs. switch and desensitization vs. relaxation
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- Out vs. switch and varied hand position in heel
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- Scent articles and quiet rewards
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- Scent work complexity
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- Confident articles, positions, impulse control with toy games
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- Quiet toy games
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- Luring crawl back for positions - first session
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- Quiet hold - adding movement
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- Focus on hold with movement
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September 2023
29 Lessons
- Backing up in down positions
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- Proofing a close front, object guard, and quiet hold with a soft toy
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- More close fronts
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- Outs and quiet hold with less help
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- Positions - don't move front feet
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- Scentwork challenge - distance and scary objects
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- Front vs. Up
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- Positions - what is possible?
  Start
- Behavior work in laundromat
  Start
- Front vs. Push
  Start
- Generalization - work away from home
  Start
- Positions - away and out of sight
  Start
- Search pattern
  Start
- Retrieve challenge: objects
  Start
- Motivate attention with the work and a cue to create the entire package
  Start
- Challenge scent work, platforms and affection in work
  Start
- Shaping with toy in mouth
  Start
- Shaping after a cue is known
  Start
- Leave it - needs work!
  Start
- Xen and Joaquim in three minutes
  Start
- Object guard: two people and moving basket
  Start
- Xen learning to bark with Joaquim
  Start
- Sniffing - work with him
  Start
- Xen - barking with me first time!
  Start
- Defense of handler
  Start
- Sendaway discrimination
  Start
- Sendaway with two platforms perpendicular
  Start
- Down stay, barking, positions
  Start
- Object guard moving box first time at home
  Start
October 2023
24 Lessons
- Cue to bark
  Start
- Compilation of full morning
  Start
- First search and bark
  Start
- Barking now with body position change
  Start
- Barking - more positions
  Start
- Fixing forging by holding and object, barking and positions
  Start
- First time jump full height at 48"
  Start
- Adding bar under dog for positions
  Start
- loose leash walking and overarousal
  Start
- Circle walking for dogs and getting on the radar
  Start
- Barking - increase criteria
  Start
- Adding a second position to escort
  Start
- Fun and light day sped up
  Start
- Hide to search and difficult retrieves
  Start
- Introducing positions with handler behind
  Start
- Practicing object holds
  Start
- Go behind and look forward regardless
  Start
- Down stay with another dog
  Start
- Problem solving escort and contact
  Start
- Blocking front for retrieve and combining send out with positions
  Start
- Layering foundation skills
  Start
- Focus on send outs and positions
  Start
- Time at flyball
  Start
- Positions for fitness and form - and barking
  Start
November 2023
29 Lessons
- Listening - go after jump with no prop and positions
  Start
- Unedited - complexity around send away and positions
  Start
- Why is front hard with and object?
  Start
- Don't chase livestock
  Start
- Sheep are hard
  Start
- Hand on positions, call off toy into positions = tired dog
  Start
- Light duty day - out, hold, and simply search and bark
  Start
- Drill for fronts, and tuck sit
  Start
- Full session at flyable tournament - he's growing up!
  Start
- Calming around crate
  Start
- Pressure in a tight space at flyable show
  Start
- Clean up heeling - too close at rear
  Start
- Xen - fitness for positions
  Start
- Fast drop on recall or out of motion and loss of attention
  Start
- Rainy day work inside
  Start
- Trial preparation - practice ending a session
  Start
- Picking Xen up for the first time
  Start
- Scent discrimination games
  Start
- More collar grab in and out of house
  Start
- Criteria shift
  Start
- Out of sight search and failed positions
  Start
- Fitness and positions, behavior work and heeling flow
  Start
- Behavior work with sheep
  Start
- Addressing predatory behavior
  Start
- Down means elbows down
  Start
- Avoidance around positions and heeling and snuggles
  Start
- Introducing Xen to the llama
  Start
- Behavior work with llama
  Start
- Full session: heeling drill for crowding and forging
  Start
December 2023
26 Lessons
- Object guard challenges
  Start
- Steps of muzzled heeling
  Start
- Muzzle heeling - more movement
  Start
- Positions for fitness or balance?
  Start
- Object guard with an awkward object
  Start
- Object guard: learning from failure
  Start
- Positions one prop front and then rear
  Start
- Object guard - a ball
  Start
- Ball for object guard in the house
  Start
- Front and rear target positions and pivot drill for heeling
  Start
- Stress over object guard
  Start
- Object guard with ball outside
  Start
- Flow - timing of exercises in a session
  Start
- Object guard with ball stealing
  Start
- Reward positions without tug and object guard with ball
  Start
- Reward position good. Down stay not so much.
  Start
- Working in a new location - handling curiosity and sniffing
  Start
- Car jacking - first step
  Start
- Don't fight. Join them.
  Start
- Control from house, positions, stay
  Start
- Heeling to the left
  Start
- Stays
  Start
- PSA weekend
  Start
- Obedience with errors
  Start
- Adding control around distractions
  Start
- Clean entries through a barrier
  Start
January 2024
25 Lessons
- Proofing around distractions
  Start
- Guinea fowl distractions
  Start
- Llama distraction
  Start
- Llama distraction day 2 - behavior work
  Start
- Joaquim seminar 2 - day 1
  Start
- Crate time for an error
  Start
- Seminar highlights
  Start
- Working on weak spots after seminar
  Start
- Object guard return with basketball
  Start
- Jump failure and trial preparation
  Start
- Positions with emphasis on stand, retrieve, and stay
  Start
- Trial prep: from house to field and more
  Start
- Trial prep: leaving house, calming, and multiple exercises before reward
  Start
- Trial prep: adding a leash, waiting, handling error, and problematic arousal
  Start
- Trial prep: to field, leash on, toy at car, and heel off field
  Start
- Trial prep: formal start, endurance heeling, rewards hidden on body, and bark and hold
  Start
- Food refusal/leave it with work included + position change struggles
  Start
- Trial prep: Ignore toys on ground unless specifically asked for them
  Start
- Trial prep: away from home
  Start
- Using contact heeling and position change toy instead of prong
  Start
- Trial prep and other random bits
  Start
- Trial prep plus barking
  Start
- Trial prep multiple exercises and search and bark
  Start
- Trial prep: away from home
  Start
- Trial prep: barking, meaning of eye contact
  Start
February 2024
34 Lessons
- Heeling through legs tutorial
  Start
- Clean entries through barrier
  Start
- Positions - trying something new
  Start
- Garbage truck, positions day 2, and scent articles with food refusal
  Start
- Trial prep: no shaking, small endurance, breaking patterns, and training in bad weather
  Start
- Trial prep: away from home
  Start
- Trial prep: waiting, arousal, and unrewarded exercises
  Start
- Random clip of bitework
  Start
- Scentwork with food refusal and positions, day 3 (disaster!)
  Start
- Different options after recall for PSA
  Start
- Lovely positions
  Start
- Reducing obsession with a new toy
  Start
- Training breakthrough!
  Start
- Denise's learning continues!
  Start
- Positions and search & bark
  Start
- Handling microchip check and touching
  Start
- Fly and chin
  Start
- Foundations: fly review
  Start
- Chin down for elbows
  Start
- Full session with flow
  Start
- Full session (fast) with all exercises minus down stay
  Start
- Trial prep: five minutes to reward
  Start
- Moving head down with a toy
  Start
- Chin down for a toy
  Start
- Contact heeling for accepting praise without holding toy
  Start
- Calming and few reinforcers
  Start
- Position changes - shoot me now!
  Start
- Adding backing to improve positions
  Start
- Very limited rewards
  Start
- Breaking patterns and analysis of positions
  Start
- Backing up with multiple platforms
  Start
- Chin down
  Start
- Scent articles with fly and backing with platforms
  Start
- Fly with jumping, stay, and back up from stand or down
  Start
March 2024
23 Lessons
- Stay before fetch to decrease arousal
  Start
- Beg and chin getting better
  Start
- Fly or jump? And chin for toy
  Start
- Many ways to fly
  Start
- Throw but no send
  Start
- Does holding toy lower arousal? And more throws without send
  Start
- Adding a prep line to send away
  Start
- Backing for positions
  Start
- Working personal pressure
  Start
- Retrieve - all needed elements
  Start
- Errors of heeling and positions
  Start
- Behavior work
  Start
- Focus on challenging hold
  Start
- Hold object close!
  Start
- Forging left turns and quiet close object holds
  Start
- Contact heeling: fixing it!
  Start
- Proofing positions, heeling and contact
  Start
- Back up from all positions
  Start
- Contact improving
  Start
- Better heeling and a bit of object hold
  Start
- Ring entrances
  Start
- Challenging food refusal
  Start
- Work in busy seminar
  Start
April 2024
24 Lessons
- Signs of overarousal
  Start
- Hold object in house
  Start
- Refining contact position
  Start
- Contact heel long session - body cues
  Start
- Contact heeling improvement
  Start
- Adding complexity with positions
  Start
- Sit stay doesn't exist but contact heel better!
  Start
- Food for out
  Start
- Listen and backup without platform
  Start
- Toy game...and abrupt end of session
  Start
- Emotional correction
  Start
- Shaping a trained dog
  Start
- Errors in the chain
  Start
- Mouth leash for contact heel
  Start
- Sit pretty for concentration
  Start
- Whole session: experimenting with engagement and other stuff
  Start
- Second lesson on the benches
  Start
- Arousal management in a working place
  Start
- Arousal control via fine motor movements
  Start
- Arousal control via calm heeling
  Start
- New things!
  Start
- Spin in both directions
  Start
- New skills at home plus more
  Start
- Adding a formal cue
  Start
May 2024
24 Lessons
- Circle perimeter
  Start
- Weight shift back with a toy
  Start
- Side heel and run perimeter
  Start
- Run out of ring and straight send away
  Start
- Contact heel and retrieve small object
  Start
- Fixing contact heel
  Start
- Retrieve and new stuff
  Start
- Handling errors
  Start
- Overarousal - work him down
  Start
- Arousal in heeling and waiting - impulse control
  Start
- Distraction work after seminar
  Start
- Distraction work outside dog park
  Start
- Day 2 of away training
  Start
- Spin moving to front position
  Start
- Working at Flyball
  Start
- Positions against leash pressure
  Start
- Fly behind to avoid creep
  Start
- Dog park - broken stay and handling people
  Start
- Dog Park- down and stand
  Start
- Dog park - watching and satiation
  Start
- What is a cue? What's the point?
  Start
- Focus in public - better handling
  Start
- Taking a walk
  Start
- Will work for food? Not today!
  Start
June 2024
25 Lessons
- Ending a session
  Start
- Changing perception of an object
  Start
- Hold a cheese stick
  Start
- Drills are repetition
  Start
- Seminar Day 1 - lesson 1
  Start
- Learn to play safely
  Start
- Object guard with new person
  Start
- Seminar Day 1 - lesson 2
  Start
- Day 2 lesson plan
  Start
- Seminar Day 3 highlights
  Start
- Circuit training
  Start
- Barking in position
  Start
- Search - perimeter first
  Start
- Cleaning up out and adding bark
  Start
- Obedience with decoy present
  Start
- Object guard - commit to object
  Start
- Arousal modulation - new dog
  Start
- Object guard - new approach
  Start
- Broad jump analysis
  Start
- Object guard commitment and sit pretty for positions
  Start
- Object guard return to object
  Start
- Formal heeling and an error
  Start
- Object guard - still improving!
  Start
- Escort - kicking thoughts
  Start
- Object guard - I'm not in it
  Start
July 2024
25 Lessons
- Obedience skills test
  Start
- Object guard improvement
  Start
- Kicking or possessing thoughts, high jump
  Start
- Prepping for escort
  Start
- Compilation day
  Start
- Unedited mondio work with Crystal
  Start
- Last day with Crystal
  Start
- Kick game for release - the process
  Start
- Working the release with games
  Start
- Testing word game that includes out under distraction
  Start
- Understanding possession in relation to alternatives
  Start
- Speed of response to kick or re-bite
  Start
- New person for kick game
  Start
- Whole session - sped up in parts
  Start
- Positions from sit pretty from down or stand
  Start
- Joaquim and Dawn - long down and search
  Start
- All that went wrong
  Start
- All that went right with Joaquim
  Start
- Horn means pay attention!
  Start
- Sendaway
  Start
- Chin rest variations
  Start
- Sit pretty to sit - stand for exam and retrieve
  Start
- Horn pre-cue
  Start
- Sendaway
  Start
- Sit pretty for...
  Start
August 2024
24 Lessons
- Reward outside fence
  Start
- From car to work in a new place
  Start
- Sendaway new places and directions
  Start
- Best work in large spaces
  Start
- Rolling toy and blind send away
  Start
- Scent work above ground
  Start
- Teaching target centre of fence
  Start
- Informal recall and difference between scent work and send away
  Start
- Sendaway challenge and heeling tip
  Start
- From car, front drills, front with objects
  Start
- Sit after send away
  Start
- New indoor location
  Start
- First time doing obedience in challenging AKC style environment
  Start
- Second time in class
  Start
- Outside active dog park
  Start
- Small test
  Start
- Farmer's market
  Start
- Adding chin to search
  Start
- Arousal before bite work with Nick - first time
  Start
- Down stay
  Start
- Increasing handler value
  Start
- Retrieve marking for send away
  Start
- Sendaway and scent work
  Start
- What is success?
  Start
September 2024
21 Lessons
- Send away and scent work
  Start
- Massage for arousal
  Start
- First search - new person
  Start
- New location - how to improve it!
  Start
- Adding chin cue to suit via listening
  Start
- Anticipation
  Start
- Scent work - distracted or working?
  Start
- No acclimation, but familiar field
  Start
- Attention to me under distraction
  Start
- Rules of engagement in a new space
  Start
- Work at train station
  Start
- More work at train station
  Start
- Listening
  Start
- Start routine and handling errors around positions
  Start
- Teach recovery or not?
  Start
- Weakness in defense
  Start
- Experimentation: front
  Start
- Arousal, tired, happy, or not
  Start
- Positions when fresh or tired and with delay
  Start
- More on those front feet - progress!
  Start
- Massage for work
  Start
October 2024
22 Lessons
- Tail wagging
  Start
- Calming to heeling
  Start
- 6 days no work
  Start
- Head cover for cooperative care
  Start
- Work after walk
  Start
- Home Depot - 30 min
  Start
- First session with blackout calming cap
  Start
- Calming cap with another person
  Start
- Strip mall loose leash walking
  Start
- Loose leash walking and work
  Start
- Defense of handler failure
  Start
- Today's neighborhood walk
  Start
- Premack training
  Start
- Head cover and restraint
  Start
- Walk in new park
  Start
- Barking at empty suit
  Start
- New locations and dogs
  Start
- Premack for distractions
  Start
- Failure and then success
  Start
- New location with distractions, praise and juxtaposition
  Start
- Whole session condensed
  Start
- Straight from car - new location
  Start
November 2024
26 Lessons
- Experimenting with clean biting options for the search
  Start
- Scent work with high distraction
  Start
- Call off working with ball
  Start
- Entire session start to finish
  Start
- No acclimation to work
  Start
- In public straight from car
  Start
- Fun with super fast positions
  Start
- More scent work - hard placement success
  Start
- Lack of sit in heel positions
  Start
- Xen to vet
  Start
- Handling errors under challenge
  Start
- Call off working with ball
  Start
- Xen to the vet
  Start
- Entire session start to finish
  Start
- Handling errors under challenge
  Start
- Lack of sit in heel position
  Start
- No acclimation to work
  Start
- Object guard return and random
  Start
- Object guard criteria and progression
  Start
- Pocket hand for precision heeling
  Start
- More object guard progression
  Start
- Heeling precision
  Start
- Object guard with another person
  Start
- Object guard new hiding spots
  Start
- Object guard and fronts
  Start
- Punishing dirty biting
  Start
December 2024
25 Lessons
- Obedience Assessment
  Start
- Adult Xen and possession
  Start
- Avoiding crate guarding with my friend
  Start
- Whole session edited with new decoy
  Start
- Creativity with boxes
  Start
- Confidence in object guard
  Start
- Search to guard
  Start
- Search to guard position
  Start
- Body posture over words and more
  Start
- Basketball object guard adding decoy
  Start
- Trial prep - prep start line and horn
  Start
- Seminar day 1
  Start
- Escort unedited
  Start
- Object guard - tug with basket
  Start
- Cranky Xen
  Start
- Behavior work in public with food
  Start
- Day 2 behavior work at grocery store
  Start
- French ring brevet obedience and bitework
  Start
- Build arousal to build control
  Start
- Object guard return better
  Start
- New words for sit and stand
  Start
- Arousal control sound of ball dropping
  Start
- Join in arousal with another person
  Start
- Arousal modulation with food, object guard and jump arousal
  Start
- Fast outs, calm around jumps with food
  Start
January 2025
15 Lessons
- Refreshing escort and jumping
  Start
- contact heel game
  Start
- Object guard
  Start
- Watching protection work in contact heel
  Start
- Xen’s first leg in mondioring one
  Start
- after trial work
  Start
- Focus on calm
  Start
- Down stay handler behind and leave it
  Start
- Uses of foot target
  Start
- Scent discrimination and not moving feet
  Start
- Do not move feet
  Start
- Food refusal and stay while I stand behind
  Start
- Seminar weekend
  Start
- More stay
  Start
- Perfect positions
  Start
February 2025
4 Lessons
- Object guard
  Start
- Quiet feet and butt and object guard
  Start
- Extreme precision
  Start
- Rehab
  Start
March 2025
9 Lessons
- No Toy in Training Experiment!
  Start
- Day 3 - No Toy in Training
  Start
- No Food in Training
  Start
- Day 6 - No Toy in Training
  Start
- No Toys Continue - Heeling Focus
  Start
- A Verbal Report
  Start
- Xen Routine
  Start
- Refresh out, stabilize rear in positions, affection
  Start
- Away from home working for food
  Start
April 2025
8 Lessons
- Back to work
  Start
- Obedience
  Start
- day 2 back to bitework
  Start
- Handling errors as we enter the field
  Start
- Set up for success
  Start
- Chin down from sit to stand
  Start
- Four targets
  Start
- Addressing creeping with two methods
  Start
May 2025
7 Lessons
- Fitness challenge
  Start
- Chin down at side
  Start
- Xen and cows
  Start
- Chin and down stay
  Start
- Fitness for foot strength and balance
  Start
- Muzzle heeling
  Start
- Starting the scene retrieve, fitness work, and French position changes
  Start
June 2025
8 Lessons
- Setting up Cavaletti
  Start
- Cavaletti homework
  Start
- Speed up his toy release on his name
  Start
- Creating a learning loop
  Start
- Fitness balance, Cavaletti, and changing stay cue to mark
  Start
- Foot stabilization
  Start
- Seminar unedited
  Start
- Seminar obedience
  Start
July 2025
2 Lessons
- Two potentially important breakthroughs
  Start
- Fitness
  Start

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Denise Fenzi

John Smith

Highly Recommended Course. Easy to Understand, Informative, Very Well Organized. The Course is Full of Practical and Valuable for Anyone who wants to Enhance their Skills. Really Enjoyed it. Thank you!!

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