Today Duece rode along again. He isn't real excited about getting in the suburban but he doesn't run away either. I left it running with the radio on when I was inside the store and again when I made a quick stop for groceries. I forgot to mention in the last post that we stopped at McDonald's on the way home and Duece sat up and stared at the person in the window but didn't care once he got some pieces of a hamburger. I forgot about the ketchup and pickles but he ate every piece. Today we had some cheese dogs on the way home. Those aren't bribes, they're rewards. :-)
This evening we were playing with Ziva on the couple pieces of 'agility' equipment we built in the back yard. There's a couple of jumps, a tire jump and 4 weave poles. It's funny watching Ziva & Duece go through the tire jump at the same time to get their treat. They haven't quite figured out the weave poles yet, but neither have I. We have the jumps set high enough for Duece and Ziva jumps over the bottom post that holds the uprights together. We haven't tied the individual items into a 'run ' yet as we're just learning the hand signals and item commands.
Duece's Blog where we keep track of Duece's training. Duece is an Australian Shepherd found at about 3 months old at the Circle of Friends Humane Society in Grand Forks, ND in December, 2008. His name when put up for adoption was "Moon" but because he's our second cadaver dog, we named him Duece and when I found out it was spelled wrong, we left it like that.
We thought we would blog our training experiences as Duece grows up and is on his way to becoming our cadaver dog and other things that Duece teaches us as we go along. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
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