Dumbbell Progress?
It's been 2 weeks since my discovery of Zumi better able to handle sends to her toy vs sends to a food reward. We don't work on it as much as I like, but she's gotten roughly 2-3 session a week on it.
Baby steps. Tiny baby steps.
But at least I actually feel like things are going int he right direction again instead of getting worse!
I'm currently telling her wait and takign a step forward to toss the toy or db. She'll still move that front foot to vulture sometimes, but not always and that's definetly improvement.
I'm still doing reps of marking the toy with reps of focusing on me before the db. I'm also usually throwing the toy now instead of pre-placing it. I figured since she's better with the thrown toy vs the thrown db (that's weird Zumi!) I might as well keep getting practice with tosses!
Distance is still a huge deal with her db. I got 1 squeal release this week when I pushed the distance just a little too far. Here are our 2 sessions this week:
