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Dorey Park, Dylan only. Two turns, age 30min. Sunny, 46degrees, 10mpg, 52%.
This was a modified article track, with an article in the middle of each of 3 legs & one at each corner. Only start was scuffed. No food in articles but food 15-30 steps after each article except start & end. Design was to help me learn to keep my feet still until proper time, reinforce Dylan’s auto-down & practice his track re-acquisition.
Lots of dog walkers at the park this morning. Dylan felt the need to keep an eye on them. Didn’t get into too many side-scents, tho. Downed without verbal cue for 71% of articles. On the video I noted one spot where I started moving too soon.
https://youtu.be/1rUDaJ4s2ZM?feature=shared
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Nice creative way to work in articles and some challenges but keeping it reinforcing and not over facing him! For the last few that you barely had to say down, I suspect he would have auto downed on most/all if not for his torn desire to indicate the article AND go herd up some people/dogs! I had a thought when watching one of your turns...though I know with the articles being at the turn, they essentially worked as restarts, so this comment doesn't necessarily apply to this session - it just happened to make me think along these lines. When you're working on marked turns/turns you know for sure where they are and you see LOS, particularly when he wants to track back and would end up going behind you...try to think of what you might do in a test or blind turn and do that...so for example, if the turn was blind, would typically take couple of steps back? if so, then go ahead and do that (again, I know for this that since it was a 'restart' it wouldn't quite apply...more just mentioning it to keep in mind).
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