Getting back to our lessons

It has been before the dark of winter I have had my lesson with Kellie Connel. Last time I saw her was last August..About 9-10 months ago. I am so glad we are back again. This was the first time Kellie saw Jett since he was neutered. She liked the change and what she saw in Jett. 

We started out with the bop exercise to warm up. Bopped him on his rump, I run another direction and when he follows me, I give him a treat. We did this a few times. 

While doing the bop, walking along my side, he was doing like he does when we do heels. I was happy to see this that he defaulted into this. 

Then our next exercise was to do the bop, then move away and have Jett Jump up and nose my fist. The first few times he wasnt that excited, then he really got into this exercise. He showed how he liked being engaged in this exercise. As time went on he got more engaged and animated.

A new exercise we did was to get Jett more focused on my face and to pay more attention to me. We want to get Jett more focused on me than the environment around him. We took string cheese and I bit 4 pieces to put in my mouth. I am to spit out a piece of cheese and have Jett catch the cheese. The first few tries, Jett kept missing the cheese, but after a few session he was catching the piece of cheese in his mouth. Then we changed the criteria that I would say a cue "look".Then spit the cheese out. I wasn't spitting the cheese as well and Jett was missing the cheese. Changing criteria you need to learn how to do the exercise again under new conditions. After a few tries, I would say "look," spit out the cheese and Jett would catch it. We finally.perfected our skill. 

So the homework is do the above 3 exercises in my house. In my front yard, on the side walk and at a parking lot.

So the bop exercise, touch my hand and spitting out food for them to catch to keep looking at me. 

For our fun ending exercise, we did the flirt pole with the rabbit pelt tied to the flirt pole. Jett's enthusiasm was more intense and he is getting more into chasing the toy. He has a lot of potential and glad he is liking playing with a toy.