My dog is happy, my floor is a mess

I’ve been too busy on the business blog and other things to keep up here! Instead of the usual rambling catch-up report, I’m sharing this bit of fun video. This is a nice way of keeping the dog entertained, as long as you don’t mind cardboard under foot.

Note the audience. Apparently shredding things is way less fun if nobody is watching.

On the training front, we’ve taken a few steps back. I was sick for about a month (between a flu virus that kept coming back and an attack of strep throat). This kept us away from both reactive dog class and tracking. We’ve been back at it for a couple weeks now.

Tracking is going along really well and we’re entered for a trial (TD2) on 10/7/01. Last week back at class I just had to get her on the mat and shovel food until there wasn’t any left. This week was way better. Kept treat value super high and started with very high rate of reinforcement and was able to slow it down during the class. Interesting to note is that she has lost the ‘angst’ from her reactive outbursts. More on that later.