Weekly Training Update (Jan 18)

Lilly and I skipped class this week, but I did take her into town last Saturday to run errands with me. Her prize for being such a trooper

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Weekly Training Update (Jan 11)

Along with the ups and downs of our usual training, Lilly had one agility-like victory this week. Happy dance with me, will you? First though, you might remember

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Weekly Training Update (Jan 4)

We haven’t been in class in a few weeks due to weather and the holidays, but this week I continued working on LEAVE IT since that’s an important

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Weekly training update (Dec 28)

Because of the holiday and because it’s been freezing-frickin cold, we didn’t do much training this week. We even skipped class last Sunday — mostly because I had

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Weekly Training Update (Dec 21)

This week’s class took place at a different dog park at the very north edge of Boulder. It’s a nice, pretty new one with 3 fenced areas (one

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Weekly Training Update (Dec 14)

This week’s Sunday class took place in and around Whole Pets, a specialty pet store located (of course) near Whole Foods. I had hoped to tell you that

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Weekly Training Update (Dec 7)

A couple interesting things happened this week, including a dog barreling straight at Lilly in class. Here’s the full update. ShoppingLilly went with me to 3 stores on

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Weekly Training Update (Nov 30)

The biggest lesson I learned from Lilly this week is that you can’t assume any behavior is rock-solid on every single day. It’s all too easy to get

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Weekly Training Update (Nov 23)

Since it’s been 3 months since Lilly started taking an anti-depressant, I can probably stop naming Friday’s entry with a number. So suffice it to say that Fridays

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Week Twelve: Anti-depressant update

I’m feeling fairly overwhelmed by all the things I should be training Lilly to do as part of our new behavior modification plan. Each little shaping event only

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