Today’s TrickAgility focus was working on building the Reinforcement Zone (RZ) by my side. The idea is that the pups will want to work by our side – either walking on leashes or when they do agility. Here’s quick clips of my working outside with each dog. I suspect this is something we will continue to work on.
This is one of the most important skills for dog sports as the dog tends to be working off your side versus where we normally hand them treats which is in front of us. MeiLi is much more used to doing this with Dad.
Devyn very used to this exercise with both of us. Kristen has been working her on some version of it for a long time and I have been using it with Devyn in her dog park visits to help her deal with her fear issues.