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MeiLi Working on Verbal cues!

Last week while doing a Recaller game, The Wow Game, with MeiLi it became apparent that she was not responding to verbal cues given to her but only responding to hand motions. That is a major issue in agility so that is our current focus. We have not gotten to do too much because of the holiday, my judging schedule, and my health. But today we did a little testing of what she has learned […]

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MeiLi The Game of Deke

Working on a new game. The Game of Deke. Basically, the dog learning to treat you a prey and chase you to stay in the re-enforcement zone. I really needed to be able to move more to really make this game fun and a better learning experience. But I think she had fun and started to figure out the game a bit. If not, we certainly had a nice game of tug!

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Day 15 December 15, 2022

Today we started the 1-2-3-Break Game. This game is designed to build excitement with self-control at the start line.  We are hopeful that soon this game will transfer for Devyn to the agility ring.  This would allow us to take her off leash and practice a lead out before playing tug. MeiLi has always enjoyed tugging. She will tug with the other dogs or with us. You can see she really wants to play. She

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Day 11 December 11, 2022

Today was another rough day for doing videos as Kristen spent the day at a CPE Agility trial and I am judging an AKC trial. Devyn had a good day at agility doing some more tugging as training in the ring.   MeiLi is on the road hanging out with Dad while he judges followed by the drive home. But Kristen did take a few minutes to work some crate games when we got home. MeiLi

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Day 10 December 10, 2022

Today was a rough day for doing videos as Kristen spent the day at a CPE Agility trial and I am judging an AKC trial. Devyn had a good day at agility doing some tug training in the ring.  She was able to tug with her toy in the ring. MeiLi is on the road hanging out with Dad while he judges. MeiLi doing some basic RZ zone work in our hotel room.  Devyn doing

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