Sheepies

Yesterday Zane got to meet the sheep. Sheep are vewy, vewy scawy. When I went in with him, he did better, but was still hesitant. We'll continue to expose him to sheep until he realizes what he's supposed to do with them. The instructor did note when he realized that *he* could make the sheep move. He liked that!




This morning we continued working on getting paper out of the mailbox. Now the key is that he has to bring it to me, sit, and hold it until I take it. He can be very impatient about that. He also worked on "pull" some more. He is pulling with lots and lots of gusto! I'm getting it under stimulus control. And now I have to get him to push on the drawer to shut it. . . . when all he wants to do is pull.

We also went to the park for a bit. He did figure 8's and then we worked on the exams. For the sit for exam, he jumped away from my friend. Then he finally held it. For the stand, we started with her just walking by, then walking to him and touching him on the back. It's going to take a lot of work to get him solid on the stands. He'd rather move away from the person.

This evening we went out and tried to get some videos of his movement. His front movement is off right now - he's high-stepping as his pace increases. He also over-reaches, but we knew that. He has a lot of drive in the rear. The herding instructor said his shoulders are a bit too straight, so with the high drive in the rear and less drive in the front from straight shoulders, he's trying to figure out how to get those front feet out of the way.