#excuse us while we're still working on phasing out verbal no reward markers

[healingheartdogs]

Meant to post this the day I took it last month and forgot, but y'all can have it now anyway. Made Selene work with Eevee doing the tug/flirt pole impulse control game because they've only done it a couple times before -- whereas I do it every time we take the dogs out and I play flirt pole with her so it's old hat by now for us. Selene is still a novice trainer and trains with Eevee and Hermes less often (she trains Banana more than me though) so sometimes they struggle more to switch into training mode with her and listen. You can tell it's got Eevee confused a bit which makes her much more distracted by Hermes than she normally would be with me and she wants to leave to go play with him instead. She's not used to Selene asking for obedience during flirt pole -- they pretty much just play simple chase and tug without training instead -- and that made it much harder for her. She's trying her best anyway though. All she really cares about in the end is getting to chase that flirt pole lol

#excuse us while we're still working on phasing out verbal no reward markers #i gave her some notes on this about watching how she moves the flirt pole more carefully with eevee #as well as giving her a cue and getting the wrong behavior and not resetting #and not remembering to give her the cue to rest to help her since she was clearly struggling to listen in this moment #also since she was struggling this much i personally would have released her right after her drop and down a few times #to get her focused on what game we're playing more first #before doing the held rest while the flirt pole was dragged away #baby steps when their brains are confused #give them easy wins to get their head in the game #dog training #this is my favorite impulse control game to play with drivey dogs #dogblr said it wanted more training and especially real training posts that are not just our nice looking end results so here ya go #eevee #hermes #my dogs #german wirehaired pointer #vulpine spitz