The Circus Elephant Trick

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First go at this, sorry about quality of the video but hopefully things will improve. I forgot to turn the light on in the room which is why it's so dark!

Kizzy training

This is my first try at doing a video so hopefully it will work. This little clip shows Kizzy training her reverses, elephant circus trick and jumping in and out of a bed. I have some more to post but will do this later as Niamh and I are off agility training shortly!

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Scary Door Stop

Today I was building up the distance Kizzy runs to a stationary toy and as suggested by Bernadette did this in the hallway for some extra length. She was doing really well but suddenly spotted our wrought iron collie door stop and had her first spook! She wasn't terrified by any means but she didn't much care for it and kept running backwards barking at it. I guess it's understandable as it's much the same size as her!

Anyway, I thought the best way to deal with this would be to use the clicker so I put a trail of chicken leading to the door stop and clicked her as she moved towards the door stop to get the chicken, then I placed a piece of chicken on the base and she took that so I clicked as she took it. That rapidly turned into her touching the door stop to get clicked and treated. Once we were doing that happily I shaped the behaviour so that she actually touched her nose to the door stop's nose!

This evening Andy incorporated the door stop into his clicker training session and you can see the results. Clicker training is such a wonderful thing!

Horrible wet day

What a horrible wet day it is today. So, all training has had to be indoors. Here are a few photos of Kizzy and Andy practising turns to the left and right, downs, sits, shake paws and nose targets. We are going to have to get a new camera to capture some of the images though, she moves so quickly it's very hard to do with our current camera. Any excuse to spend!




1) Shake left paw from sit 2) Shake left paw from stand


1) Stand 2) Down

Turn to the right

1) Target 2) Nose to hand target