Contact Retraining- Take Sixty

That pathetic display is Charlie's current contacts. Well, the third one in that video is. The first two are his crap contacts plus issues with nature being around the dog walk.

I just had a quick session- using his dinner; kind of sad that he gets so excited over the same kibble he's been having twice a day, every day for the past two years, but anyway- and while I started with getting a standing 2o2o, he doesn't seem to feel as comfortable or confident. He goes for an auto drop 2o2o which I'll happily accept if it means he's got some enthusiasm and wants to do it. He was so eager I turned my back for two seconds to refill up on treats and found him trotting down the dog walk and popping himself into position.

Needless to say that got a huge treat bonus.

I'm aiming for an auto contact because he doesn't really listen enough at trials, and I'm liable to forget to call it anyway, so it's just a matter of making it super strong and super rewarding to stop at the bottom of that slanty plank no matter what slanty plank it is or where it's been placed.

I'm going to paint it up on Saturday and scrounge some sand for the traction and shift it so we can start working on getting the speed up. 'Cause unless he can learn to regulate his speed and apply the brakes, we're screwed.

But it's looking better. Better than this morning definitely, anyway- but we'd have to try really, really, really hard to be worse actually.