Raph & Gitta – 2×2 – Day 4 – Session 5

Summary — Session 5 (4 mins for Raph, 3 mins for Gitta): one set of poles at 2 and 8 oclock. Working in a new location with body movement.

What a session! Just watch the videos! There’s not much to say – and the setup is the same – so I’m combining Raph and Gitta’s post. I didn’t work on hard entries this session since I was working in a new location. Plus – once they had a few nice reps, I started adding body motion as well. You can see in these videos that I have my line spray painted on the ground. It’s been there since day 1, though you couldn’t make it out on the video.

Raph:
Raph is doing great! He doesn’t have the drive at distance that Gitta does – but he’s still doing well. Just a little more focused on me and his toy and a little less driven for the poles themselves. I’ll continue to work on that – though I think I should move on in the process and just make sure to keep working distance at all stages of the process.

You can see he fakes me out at least once. Heads for the poles – pulls up – but I’ve already thrown the toy so on he goes.

Gitta:
You can see she just loves those poles. I have no command for her to go to the poles at this point. I usually grab her collar and set her up. But you can see this time that as soon as I get her to out the tug – she’s off for the poles. Body movement didn’t bother her either.

Great great session. I had to cut Gitta’s off early since my 4 yr old was calling from the house. But maybe that was a good thing!

I think both dogs are probably ready for the next stage – adding a second set of two poles about 15 feet out. That will probably be a bit harder for Raph than Gitta – but you have to find that balance between working each stage and pushing for more.