Video - Novice Trick Title

[sjdavenport]

You could certainly give it a try. You'll have to make friends first though, lol. He is by far the least affectionate corso I've ever owned or fostered. I had to train him to give me hugs and kisses! Just to make me happy of course.....lol.

 

[Hector]

You could certainly give it a try. You'll have to make friends first though, lol. He is by far the least affectionate corso I've ever owned or fostered. I had to train him to give me hugs and kisses! Just to make me happy of course.....lol.

If making friends means being a mobile treat dispenser, the you got one. I'm a generous one too!! I know! I taught a kiss just to make myself happy and feel loved lmao.

 

[sjdavenport]

If making friends means being a mobile treat dispenser, the you got one. I'm a generous one too!! I know! I taught a kiss just to make myself happy and feel loved lmao.

Haha, pretty much! Just don't act super sketch, and let him come to you, and then you're in the club!

 

[sjdavenport]

Oh, and Rhaegar will the the first corso that has earned the advanced trick dog title. We win!!

 

[Hector]

Oh, and Rhaegar will the the first corso that has earned the advanced trick dog title. We win!!

Whoa!! Nice!! Maybe I should look into this. I'm so lazy!!

 

[Hector]

I forgot you guys earned the advanced title. Are you going for expert?

 

[sjdavenport]

It will probably be a while before we get around to getting the expert (and Alexandra Lowry's Marius beat us to it as the first corso anyway, lol). I'm thinking the weave poles and the 6 behaviors from 10 feet away would be pretty easy. We could maybe do the double beams and rolling a barrel/peanut too?? That would also fit in with our parkour goals. He could probably figure out the shell game too. We'll see. Right now I'm busy preparing to move us to Charleston for 2 months (thank God Mazey and Rhaegar are coming with me!), and then we will all be moving for real to an unknown location in an unknown state, lol. I've been applying and interviewing at a few places. Adulting sucks, haha. Leaves very little time to train my dog to do useless things.

 

[Hector]

It will probably be a while before we get around to getting the expert (and Alexandra Lowry's Marius beat us to it as the first corso anyway, lol). I'm thinking the weave poles and the 6 behaviors from 10 feet away would be pretty easy. We could maybe do the double beams and rolling a barrel/peanut too?? That would also fit in with our parkour goals. He could probably figure out the shell game too. We'll see. Right now I'm busy preparing to move us to Charleston for 2 months (thank God Mazey and Rhaegar are coming with me!), and then we will all be moving for real to an unknown location in an unknown state, lol. I've been applying and interviewing at a few places. Adulting sucks, haha. Leaves very little time to train my dog to do useless things.

Yeah those seem totally doable. Wow, you are busy!! Have fun and good luck!

 

[sjdavenport]

Worked on filming stuff for our "magic pooch award" a while back, lol. Forgot to post it. Some of this was already stuff he knew, but a few things are new - finding treats indoors, unrolling a towel, getting treats out of the water bowl (he was deeply offended by that one, lol), that weird "body check" one. We're still missing several - pull something, hide and seek, remember 2 objects by name (no idea how we're going to do that one), and balance item on head. [video=youtube;jEOx3jIPuB0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOx3jIPuB0[/video]

 

[Hector]

Rhaegar is more and more confident and more and more cute in his tricks. His cuteness is killing me especially with treat in water bowl. I'm happy you're posting videos again!!! Have you noticed more willingness to learn tricks and try as he learns more and more? I have noticed that with Hec.

 

[sjdavenport]

I do think that I've seen his level of frustration and anxiety go down when he's not sure what exactly I'm asking him to do when we're working on something new. And his confidence with any of the parkour stuff has gone way up. He really seems to like that best. I haven't done much work with him in the past couple of weeks other than some work on his reactivity (I can post some video of that). He's just not used the sheer volume of foot and dog traffic coming right by the house, not to mention the bicycles, golf carts, skateboards, etc. We get up in the dark, walk, go to my preceptorship (thankfully the dogs can come with me), come home in the dark, walk, fall asleep, lol. Tomorrow is my day off, so maybe we'll do something.

 

[Hector]

I do think that I've seen his level of frustration and anxiety go down when he's not sure what exactly I'm asking him to do when we're working on something new. And his confidence with any of the parkour stuff has gone way up. He really seems to like that best. I haven't done much work with him in the past couple of weeks other than some work on his reactivity (I can post some video of that). He's just not used the sheer volume of foot and dog traffic coming right by the house, not to mention the bicycles, golf carts, skateboards, etc. We get up in the dark, walk, go to my preceptorship (thankfully the dogs can come with me), come home in the dark, walk, fall asleep, lol. Tomorrow is my day off, so maybe we'll do something.

I'd love to see the video. Enjoy the day off.

 

[Vantage]

Love IT! Keep up the great work!