Chalk one up in the win column for Rave!! Everytime we work I micromanage and seem to find something else that needs work. This time I give Rave total credit!
After the last blog we've been working really hard on getting the ball off the box. Once you do so many hit-its its hard to start to add the ball, when they learn muscle memory on the box they get into a groove and its hard to tweak that groove. We've lately had HUGE success with adding the ball and bringing it back to me, and dropping it for the tug!!!! Thank god she loves the ball!!!! Because she didn't love the tug, i've never taken that out of the picture. She loves the ball so much that a tug with balls on it is golden!
Now that I am holding the golden tug in one hand and there is a stationary ball in the box, its hard for me to get her to leave me to go to the box. If I have someone call her on the box, she would way rather visit them than do her job! Tough place we are in. BUT! Today, success! Someone called her to the box, she did a turn, got the ball and came back to the tug over a jump. Total success! Now the "easy" part back chaining jumps. I will try to take a lot of video at practice on Sunday so i can post her many successes!
Every practice we have I try to push her more and more. At the last practice we worked on her driving on the flat. We also call this puppy drag racing. She made really really good choices when it was her turn. For some reason she did much better in the left lane, so in the future we will work 3/4 the time in the right lane. She would drive like hell to me 90% of the time, and the other 10% of the time she would go into the other lane and give that dog hell and out running them. But we will work through that, day by day!
Stay tuned for up coming video!
Happy Training!
Lyndsy and Rave
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Glad you are seeing some success with the Ravenator! Excited to see video of her progress :)
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