First of all, Tarra and Halli. We've been letting them run together in our fence under supervision. They play and run alot, but we notice that when Tarra's done playing, Halli STILL wants to play. Sometimes there's a few growls, but nothing too big. Tarra is basically the dominant one with Amy, but we were interested to see how she would react to a dog 15 lbs. heavier than her. They ended up getting in a fight, pretty quick no injuries. Definitely something we expected, and looked as if Tarra's just trying to hold her position. Later the same day, we let them loose inside after introduction on leash. Pretty good, until, once again Halli wanted to keep playing, sparked another fight. We seperated them, Halli had a small cut but she was fine. I think this is okay as long as we are there to seperate it once it happens, because I know Tarra has to prove her place, because..... that's Tarra, she's the boss! LOL! Halli and Tarra will definitely get better, after all, Amy and Tarra were a much bigger challenge, and look at them now! :) I think our biggest goal is to get Halli really tired before letting her interact with our other dogs. And Amy, really doesn't give a crap about Halli, as long as she doesn

On Tarra's training:
Just going to work more with speed and drive without obvious reinforcers, and working in many new locations.

Halli's training:
She's such a good girl! Ran her first sequences last week and did amazing, I'll be working on a video, so look out!

Thanks for reading!

New best friends! Here's some pics! It looks like Honey's fighting, but everytime she plays, her fur always comes up and she gets super excited, if either dog starts growling, that's where we stop their playing and give them toys. We're really strict about that and we've prevented any fights. :) they really love running and playing!

This idea was from pam at www.youtube.com/user/pamelamarxsen

Today we worked with 4 jumps set at 12" and 5 feet apart. At first I was just running with her and trying to get her speed up, then throwing the toy. Then I put the toy on the pause table where she couldn't see it, and her speed and drive was great!! Then I told her to "go on" something we haven't trained with since April. She got it! But once we changed directions, she would stop at the 4th jump, so we backchained with 2 and 3 jumps and stayed in the original direction (seems that there was more room at the end for her stride extension) and she would drive to the toy at the end. Then, with all 4 jumps up, I put the toy back on the pause table, and took Tarra to the start after getting her excited to play. I rarely do lead outs, as Tarra doesn't like them. But she was good and excited to run and she did great. I lead out and said 'reeeeeaaaadddddyyyyy????" released her and she flew! SO HAPPY! We ran to the toy, played, and ended the session on a good note! So proud of her! :)

Won't be able to train for a few days, but I think I'll still update the blog.

Today we started our speed and drive training. We started with throwing a toy, and when Tarra ran fast to get it, I clicked and she got it. Then we took out 2 jumps at 12" and did some simple wrap/extension drills looking for speed. She did great! Tarra worked pretty well and listened to my directions. I also hid her reinforcer near the end of our drill, had her do a sit-stay and showed her my empty hands, then started the drill and at the end we ran to her toy! She had the same speed that she did before when I was running with the toy in my hand. SO PROUD OF HER!! Great start to this training! :)
Thanks to pamelamarxsen!

Thanks to an amazing youtube trainer, I have a new plan for training Tarra for speed without a reinforcer close by, kinda like a trial! I'm super excited, and expect lots of vids and more blog posts about it. We start today! :)

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