Roscoe did a couple sends through the bottle wall for the bite. The bottle wall was way back like 10 feet from the decoy, but going through it still messed with his targeting and he ended up with a crotch bite. I'm not sure if its from the bottle wall, or residual uncertainty from Sunday. Either way we backed up and did some on leash targetting and then a free send or 2. Much better. Also worked the DOH which as I said before I am so happy with. I never explained how we taught it:
Roscoe was put in a sit next to me while a decoy just wearing a schutzhund sleeve circled around me while I helped him stay in the right position following the decoy. When he did a good job the decoy came up and stood close then hit me with the sleeve. Roscoe bit and the sleeve was slipped. This was soooooo much easier because it doesn't involve a fight and bite and out in order to repeat. So consequently Roscoe and decoy had plenty of energy to do literally 20 of these in 1 session without breaking a sweat. It made it very clear very fast for roscoe as opposed to trying to teach all that with the suit. We did 2 sessions of this and now roscoe has the circling and staying with me down pat.
Tank bitch #2: This was a clusterfuck of trying to figure out how to get her to go high between using a hard barrier the decoy holds while she's sent free and not allowed the legs to using my bottle wall and trying to feed the bite over the wall. Nothing worked quite right, I think this session of all of ours was a little nervewracking as nothing went quite right. The bottle wall seemed to present problems with timing in getting her over it onto the bite and the fact that is crashes down. The physical block of the legs with her sent free was better, but in retrospect she was learning too much circling around instead of going up. Couple of flee attacks which she liked better. She always has fun even if we are having some challenges getting her to branch out in the targeting.
Satan: Satan went through the bottle wall and to the bite about 7 feet on the other side. This definately threw off her concentration. Her target work is usually 100% consistent, but this put her biting a little higher than she normally does. Now if you never saw her work you wouldn't know it was off, but I have a variety of bruises to map out exactly where she normally bites. She did 3 passes through and each was better than the last. Her bite once she was on it was perfectly confident and hard and full, so she didn't carry any stress from that through to the bite which is exactly what i want. She will get to where that doesn't phase her and it can be moved closer and closer to the decoy -me and her reaction time will be unfazed enough that she won't miss a beat or a target. She also worked on patience... She had to sit quietly next to dad while I shook his hand a few times and waited. She lacks much patience and would bite randomly when she decided it was taking too long. But when she was good I hit the handler and she got to bite. We did a couple of these. I hope to have the timing with her down to where she is through all the environmental part of her training and progressing to the end of the DOH by Decemberish so she can transfer to the suit (which i know her owner secretely puts her on ;)) officially. So right around there before that transfer we will need to introduce the whistle recall and most importantly get the escort under way. The escort we can start with the leg sleeves but not yet that is more control than she's ready for.
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