Dear Blog

Im sorry I have been neglecting you.  Its been over a month and I feel bad.  But I really didnt find it necessary to make a post about trials when the youtube description explained the majority of my thoughts.  And training sessions would have been boring for you because it was mainly just weave proofing and wraps. 

But I guess I have more to say about wraps than just mentioning them, so quickly:
I know akc has a lot of wraps so I knew eventually I wanted to teach a wrap on command but when our latest nadac trial had a wrap in it I got motivated to begin teaching the command right away.  I use the command "tight" and I give it to her before she is jumping so she has time to think and collect.  Im still mixing it up being "tight" and "go [on]"  so she doesnt lose her distance skills when I start hanging back.  Bored yet? Good.

After training today.  CeCe says yum?

Teeter training has begun and I frankly have no clue what Im doing but Im just going to smile and pretend I do.  She is looking good for having a confused trainer, in my opinion!  Well not completely confused, I am now spending each night going through training strategies in my head.  Last night I only got a couple hours of sleep because I was thinking of a command for her contact and figuring out how I would go about changing her down behavior to a crouching target.  I definitely make it hard on myself thinking of names for behaviors that are outside the usual.  I dislike conformity and for some reason I do not like the word touch..  Her 2o2o command was "dos".  Yup I had to resort to foreign language.  You can imagine how I struggled with a term for her 4 on teeter behavior.  I eventually came up with "stick" sometimes "stick it" because her teeter command is "tip it" (oh yeah Im on a ROLL with creative names aren't I?). haha 
Since CeCe just got introduced to "stick" today she doesnt know what it means exactly..  And I was struggling with strategies for a held contact since this is new to me.  For instance if you take a look at my video (Ill post it at the end) and look at 2:19 in the video, you'll see my face of confusion and awkwardness.  Thankfully miss Chrissy came to my rescue with a strategy that may just work to help teach a better "stick".  Ill try it out tomorrow and of course video!