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A
week ago she would have been hesitant and picked her
way carefully down, but this morning she
bounded out confidently which was nice to see.
Blind retrieves
I have reintroduced
Lottie's two ‘permanent blind’ drills in my
training field - not every day - but two or three
time a week. She remembered them both,
despite the break in time. I will be
adding a third leg across the width of the field in
the next day or two if all goes well.
Stop whistle
Having not done much on
this for a few days, we have done some
refreshing of the stop whistle with simple stops
near to me. In addition, sometimes I send
Lottie out to a ‘permanent blind’ station when there
is no dummy there. When she get to the PB location
and starts hunting for the missing dummy, I blow
the stop whistle and throw out another dummy out to
the side as soon as she sits.
Sometimes Lottie is
allowed to retrieve this reward dummy, and
sometimes I pick it up myself. |
