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We’re getting ready to head out to the Rockford Farmer’s Market with Hops and a couple other dogs to pick up some fresh corn and Tomatoes for our personal lessons this afternoon with Mary M. & Tala and Oliver.
It ought to be pretty interesting, as Hops has some serious issues with reactivity in new places. We’ve done a little tiny bit of work on this problem in public over the last few months, he’s actually been successful down in Rockford, although we didn’t get very far from the car. We’ve been focusing on keeping him very low, not having any reactive outbursts over the past few months, and it’s time to get out and exercise that newfound composure.
Wish us luck! We’ll report back in a few hours.

Trainer’s Notes:

Freeshaped Down earns cookies in Rear of Crate. – 30 secondsHops’ down made cookies happen in the rear of the crate presenting competing interest between crate and public environment.
Freeshaped Down to get the hand to the door. – 30 secondsHops’ down made me put my hand on the crate latch. Consequent.
Duration on Down or to get the door open. – 30 seconds Hops’ getting up prompted hand to be removed from crate latch. After a few breaks of down, Hops held and door opened.
Freeshaped eye contact for cookies and then exit. – 30 secondsHops was getting frustrated, so we reduced down criteria to “in the crate” and moved to freeshaped Eye Contact to add value to open doored crate and as path to getting outside – 5 or so cookies. Last eye contact earned exit.
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