A lot has happened in the past seven months. Not much of it was dog training, but today I came across a video from last December and I thought I would share it with you.
A year ago I was teaching Ruby to put his front feet on a target when he was entering “two on, two off” position on a dog walk. This position was originally taught on a box and then transferred to the dog walk, but it was never as solid as I would wish. If I stayed behind Ruby often couldn’t complete his task.
So I started training him to go to the end of the plank without me and to focus ahead: