This weekend we went to a stockdog clinic. Zane didn't get to work, but he watched and took it all in. Overall, he did very well. But. . . he cannot handle puppies. They weren't even that close to him and he started to growl, then got very wild-eyed. I had to get him back to his crate away from there. Puppies are just too out of control for him.
This morning at Rally, he was fine with the dogs. He did his goofy rolling and acting like a baby puppy with some, and when a friend brought out her old, blind Border Collie, he did his rolling, but it was very subdued. It was like he knew that he had to be calmer with this dog.
I'm starting to do more pushing things with him. So I hold food in one hand, the other hand on his chest, and he has to push into the hand on his chest to get to the food. I want a lot of push and pressure so he is really working to get it.
This morning he did nosework at a covered shelter in the park. I hid one find in the open end of a picnic table. He knew it was somewhere up there, put his front paws on the picnic bench, then looked at me very worried that he wasn't allowed up there. He found it though! He found all three hides - good job!
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