Here’s session #5 of Jayda learning the Elephant trick. She will now go all the way around, although she sometimes gets “stuck” especially when she gets so her back’s to me (though there are a few nice turns in this clip). And she still wants me up close, making it VERY hard to video!

So ALMOST! Next things to work on: fading out the intermittent reinforcers, smoothing it out and getting some distance.

We didn’t do any Elephant Training over the weekend. Saturday, Jayda and I went to a seminar with Leslie McDevitt. It was good although I felt that it would have been better with fewer working teams – she spends a LOT of time with each team so even though watching her work with different dogs’ issues was very informative, it made for a long day! Bryce had to stay home and was NOT a happy boy!