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you may want to train both ways and wait till she is running the full coarse, clock her times and watch for fumbling. we had Happy turning the wrong way for the longest time, her times were only in the 5 second range and she was constantly fumbling, despite that all the tests resulted in "she turns left". one day the boxloader said "ya know what? im gonna try switching sides" while the team captain was out of the room(he wouldnt let us try before) and ya know what? boom, switch the ball to the right immeditly turned her times to 4 seconds and she never fumbled again lol

hmmm I will have to see what I can do about a barrier lol, diagionaly is what I meant by turning, I will walk into them and they will back up and suddenly turn diagonaly to avoid the box. somehow I gotta figer out 2 wall type barriers as the usual(couches, tables..) they just jump over to avoid the object in the way lol

ok, how the heck do you get the dog to back up onto the box? my girls all back up on command and they are all ready for the 3rd step, but they do NOT understand backing up onto the box, as soon as they encounter the box they turn away from it..

they is a fun one to teach lol. Misty is starting step 2, mostly just because she is so antsy that I have to work specifily on holding still lol. Electra will be going to on step 3, she was easy once I finally manged to get her on the box in the first place..that first step though, she was quite postive that stepping on the box was going to kill her or something lol. Happy is on step 2, she undertstands the get on the box quite solidly, but she HATES training so I have to disguise it, I cant click or treat anything because she knows the click means training and she doesnt like treats so she will walk away. I had to play fetch with her and have her do like 20 other tricks alternating with getting on the box between fetches lol. and Rusty? well he went back to kindergarten to learn that I control the treats, not some magic dismembered arm lol

lol, I will have to try the treat in my hand thing, I have been trying to Teach Leck to shake since I got her(its always been the first thing I teach after "sit" and "stay") but leck just doesnt get it, its like it takes all her concentration to sit and stay, nevermind trying to do something else too!

lol, Moses does it the same as Electra, jumping from straight on to climb over your shoulder. my BCs on the other hand naturally go sideways lol

ok here is Happy please exuse her clicking feet, she has rediculously flat feet, it doesnt atter how short her nails are they ALWAYS sound like that..that also part of the reason I trying jumping directly to the jumping tinto my arms after having her wathc Misty, the little bit of chair training I did with her was really painful because of those claws lol, my poor legs were all scratched up and bruised horrably.

I will have a video up of Happy soon, she was far and away the easiest....I just made her watch Misty do it 3 times then I asked Happy to do it and she did lol, well the first try she didnt make it, but she clearly understood what she was trying to do, the second time she did it easy lol. Rusty I am having issues with though, he gets frusterated and stops trying..or as one trainer at a weight pull demo put it "he changes the subject" lol, he will just decide the its too high and wont even try(if he tried he would not have an issue, he's a JRT mix, he has bloody springs in his legs!) he will just start barking and offerning any behviour exept jumping. I am suprised, I thought Rusty would be the easiest, but he is now the only one NOT jumping into my arms yet. the thing is that I KNOW he can do it, because he has done it many times before...not on purpose mind you, but its hardly a challenge for him lol.

Misty http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=f7vIuGmKC3U Electra http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dcM7ypwtR0U

I am in the middle of uploading videos of Misty and Electra jumping into my arms, I will post when they are ready it took about 4 10 minute sessions of the pillow training before they were jumping into my arms. I havent progressed Happy and Rusty yet, my arms can only handle so much poundage hurtling through the air at once lol I have no pitfalls with Misty, she was really easy and thinks its the greatest thing ever lol. Electra the pitfalls are that she still belives she is jumping into my lap, so she jumps from head on..as far as my thighs and I pretty much gotta catch her from there, hopefully she will learm better form with time lol

those videos are awsome! I have been dying to teach my dogs to jump into my arms for years but I never had the foggiest idea HOW, sure I had plenty of ideas but I was never able to coordinate myself to be able to DO them lol. but I startat with the chair methode and it works great! all 4 of my guys are catching on really fast and they love it(although the 40lb BC is a little exuberant lol) even Electra is catching on fast and she is the moron of the group..she also doesnt jump lol. but when she gets a cookie for jumping on my lap? well hey, sweet deal! lol

umm I have 15 vetable pets, at $50-70 per check up($70 for the dogs $50 for the exotics), if I did it yearly I would not be able to afford their regular care lol. let see, that would be $490 a year for the dogs alone, just for a yearly check up, not including anything that comes up in between. add anouther $400 a year for yearly checks of my exotics again not including anything that came up in between. thats almost $900 a year for the vet to say "he's healthy, see ya" . so no, Ido not take my pets for yearly check ups, I take them to the vet when I need too.

I recall an anime when I was younger...the little animal creature things could only master 4 things, as soon as they learned another they lost a prevous one. I think your friend is confusing real life with a cartoon lol. alot of my dogs know upwards of 30-40 commands. I think someone must has forgotten to tell them that they cant know more then 5 lol

my front door window is 4 feet up, Rusty is 15" tall and we have to tie him up or crate him in order to open the window because he can easily jump right out. Im sure he can jump higher, his old owners said he would have no problem clearing my 6 foot fence..thankfully he hasent tried lol but I do keep a tie out in my yard for him just in case lol. Happy(21" tall) can clear my 6 foot fence, I've seen her lol thankfully she is my baby and the only time she has ever done it was because I left her in my yard while taking Misty for a bikeride around the block, Happy cleared the fence and appeared at my side lol Misty(18" tall) can FLY, infact its her favorite pass time. steps dont exist, coffee tables are long jumps, 26" high Agility jumps are much to low etc.. how high can she jump? not a clue, but I dont doubt that she could clear 6 feet..and probably set set dock diving records too lol(unfortinatly we dont have dock diving here, because if we did I would be there in a flash to prove it lol)

woo ok with Happy I started with systematic desensitization with clicker training. basicly I took her all over the place armed with treats and a clicker, and I start out far away from the object or area of fear, I would reward her to be calm, slowly I would shrink her comfort zone, if she started freaking out I would simply back away, eventually I was able to shrink her comfort zone down to pretty much touching her. IOW despite her being terrfied of strange dogs and while I try to avoid dog overrun situations, things happen, escaped dogs appear from put of nowhere, idiots let there dogs run off their property to greet mine etc.. and in these situations, she may not be comfortable, but she is easily kept under control without anyone ever knowing that she doesnt like strange dogs.