Shadowing Session with Lynn & Lily 1/14/11

Places we went:
•NAS-No Island
oDry cleaner
oMcDonalds
•Kensington Vet
•MCRD
Store for Dog food
Starbucks
Bathroom
•Petsmart


BEHAVIORS USED:
Dry Cleaners:
•Watch - Get attention in car/focus – a very important way to start
•Go Ahead – Distance L4 – he gets out of car, turns, sits and looks at me
•Crate – Get in –entering car
•SDW
•Being aware of Public – staying right next to the rear bumpers of cars awalking throughparking lot
•Wait at doors
•Touch – getting him lined up in front of me by counter
•Sit
•Down
•PAT-#1-4

McDONALDS (Lynn's favorite place)
Above plus:
•StandStay – in line at counter
•SDW – while carrying food/drink
•GTM L6 – Get In under table and lay down
•ZEN L6 – French Fry Zen – (fries dropped under table for training purposes)
•GTM L6 – no shake
•TARGET L5 – Follow
KENSINGTON VET
Above plus:
•Touch-to get on scale
•Zen – treats hanging above scale
•GTM-under chairs that had a bar halfway across it underneath (made it harder)
MCRD
Above plus:
DOG STORE:
•ZEN L5n-food/toy Zen
•Come – past Bully sticks placed on floor (for training purposes)
•Down – beside Bully sticks on floor (for training purposes)
•Zen – Butt Zen – (he reached his nose over to someone bending over so we trained it ☺)
•HANDLING L4 – toilet on cue (grass)
•SDW – on grass – no sniffing (needs work)
STARBUCKS
Above plus:
•SDW - stairs
•ZEN – food at nose height
•GTM – between chair and ottoman (using Touch to turn him around and Back/ Trick L3 to fit in)
•DOWNSTAY OOS to pick up order
•DownStay – remains down while I get up before leaving
•Retrieve – picks up leash and gives it to me carefully
•Bathroom
oZen – Urinal Zen (never seen one before)
oBack/Trick L3 – to get in beside toilet and sit/lay
PETSMART
•Dog Zen
•Ball Zen (leaving a ball while it rolls/bounces past, for training purposes)
•SitStay – for above
•DownStay – for above
•Scale – again
•Leash L2 – standing with a loose leash while I talked to the trainer about training with FD

** All this was done with 5 or less treats and only clicked for leaving French fries under the table). Oh, and a bully stick to chew in the car on the way home.

First, thanks Lynn for letting us shadow you. It was a wonderful learning experience for both Nad and me.

Lynn and Lily also used a grocery cart (SDW) It is interesting going back and looking at all the behaviors used in the course of just going to a few places.

While constantly being aware of Nad, where he is, what he is doing, I was also constantly trying to be aware of the environment around us and where people were, being very aware of the public and keeping him as out of the way as possible.

Nad did very well. I saw a major difference from when we were at MCRD a few months ago. I could really see just how important Touch is for maneuvering your dog. I would like to get his Touch so it is solid, hard, precise each and every time. I would also like to work on his SDW so that there is more of a “J” in the leash at all times. We have been working a lot lately on Dog Zen and will continue to do that as his tail went from calm to looking like he changed into a Husky when we went into Petsmart.

We took some opportunities to do a little training while we were out. We worked on Zen by tossing French fries under the table and McD’s and telling him “no”, we placed Bully Sticks on the floor at the store on MCRD and worked Zen and then had them Come over them and Down next to them. That is where I got the opportunity to work Butt Zen (a rare opportunity that I couldn’t pass up), and major Ball Zen in the Petsmart isle.