1st 2 sessions today

I'm trying to make up a bit for our slacker nights. We first practiced loose leash walking for quite some time. We've been having mixed results. Today, I put the martingale collars on them. Today, I added "eyes" to the tree method. Basically, if they pull, I stop. We don't move (or move backwards) until I get real eye contact, then C/T which brings the dog back for a treat. That's working much better. Lots of progress today (minus the cat issue). Used squeeze cheese with bacon and "sniff" time as rewards.

2nd session was all outside, which is harder for Charlie. Matt was really successful today on the porch with 10 out of 10 touches in 30 seconds. In the drive went much better than our first try (to many distractions and no response at all). We managed 10 touches in 2 minutes with a lot of distractions. I'm pretty happy with this today!

Targeting fingers. Mixed results outside today. I've started throwing in practice while on the tie-out, and not just on leash or in the house. We did 2 steps in the drive on leash with tossed treats. 9 out of 10 successes in 90 seconds. Not too bad, considering we didn't get the last one due to dogs barking. We did much better in the backyard to my surprise. 1 step + hand feed on tie-out. 10 out of 10 in 45 seconds with dogs barking. The last session was outside on the porch. 10 out of 10 with 2 steps & hand fed. I tried to push and do some more, but Charlie was just too tired, and walked away. We played a quick game of whoo hoo (jumping about), and he happily went inside to sleep. We'll try again after he gets a nap.

I'm definitely pushing a bit to hard today, and will back off. I had a pretty aggressive plan set up to make up for my slacking this week. I'll try to break out the rest in much shorter sessions. If we don't get through the entire plan, we'll scratch them today, and add them to tomorrow's, and not work so hard on loose leash.

Materials:

Squeeze cheese with bacon
Hot dogs
Zukes
towel
clicker