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October 29, 2019 at 9:32 am in reply to: Agne & Repsu, Portuguese podengo medio, 2 years, Estonia #11829
Thank you for the pointers! I kind of have reached the same conclusion over time that it shouldn’t be my job to initiate interactions and remind her that I’m here too with goodies and all. When we are on the yard I occasionally check in on her to see if she might be in mood to interact, and if she’s not really into it, I let her continue her things and try again later. The food toss in the yard, for example, took place after some 4 hours of being in the yard, everyone doing their own stuff and I got the camera out because she started looking for contact with me so I saw an opportunity. I’ve got a feeling that if at that state of her mind I run to the house or away from her sight, she forgets me the moment I’m not to be seen 😀 I actually have done this once when we were playing, she started looking towards the gate and I ran to hide behind the house. I waited for a while there and when I went to see what’s up, she was already doing her own stuff, with me completely forgotten 😀 So that’s why I try to distract her back to me. Do you think even with her forgetting about me so easily, I should stop doing it?
October 28, 2019 at 9:24 am in reply to: Agne & Repsu, Portuguese podengo medio, 2 years, Estonia #11823Hi Polona! I had some crazy weeks and only got to the video editing right now. I’ve tried to have at least one food game session every day along with her happy jumps when she gets a chewie. Here’s a video of our food toss game outdoors:
You can see her attention and focus being wishy-washy despite the fact that by that time she started to get bored from being on the yard and probably a bit hungry too as it was way past lunchtime.
We also played at the agility hall:
Compared to the yard she’s more focused but still getting a bit lost in the sniffing world
Last but not least a while after the food toss in agility hall we tried with food bag. This is something I have struggled with her. She seems to prefer grabbing the string or my hands more than actually grabbing the food bag itself when it’s the chase part.
October 14, 2019 at 9:49 pm in reply to: Agne & Repsu, Portuguese podengo medio, 2 years, Estonia #11626Here’s some games we tried this evening. She’s a bit crazy about food. As a puppy she would live on kitchen counters and dining tables. So we did a lot of self discipline exercises and now that she has more manners, I can bring back the “bad manners” again 🙂 And I need a bigger carpet!
October 14, 2019 at 3:59 pm in reply to: Agne & Repsu, Portuguese podengo medio, 2 years, Estonia #11610Mr. Bosse really started hating group trainings and competition environment so now we’re just having agility fun in the yard. He discovered canine fitness though and we’re going to paired classes weekly and he is all buffed up. This summer we went on a 7-day long hike far up north the polar circle and he was really rocking the trail. After moving to the house he kind of had a second wave of youth coming over, loving the freedom to run and hunt and do silly stuff, also play-fighting with his crazy sister. You’ll meet the Mad Fox soon in our first lesson videos. I can imagine a pod being on a wishlist as they are super charming and silly dogs but definintely not for everyone. I remember when I got her, it didn’t take 24 hours for me to cry over the uncontrollable chaos she managed to create, thinking what have I done 😀 She “broke” me in 7 days and made my mindset shift and accept the new normality 😀
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