I just had this amazing training session with Gimme and I'm absolutely certain she's a canine genius. Gawd I love this pup. She's been cooped up all day and so I wanted to do something to work her brain, so she could let off some steam. I decided a little creativity session, which we haven't done before, would do the trick. It took her all of four clicks to figure out that she was getting clicked for anything different. She was throwing behaviors at me so fast I could barely keep up. Did I mention I think she's a canine genius?
Then she did the cutest behavior I've ever seen. Its a leap straight up, where she sort of wriggles her butt as she is coming back down. It reminded me of the razzle-dazzle move I learned in military drill team about a hundred and twenty years ago. I soooo want to capture that and put a name on it.
Then she immediately did another behavior that I love, its a two-bounce-spin. She bounces and lands 180 degrees, with an immediate repeat, ending with her facing me again. This had a little bit of the razzle-dazzle wriggle to it. I soooo want to capture that and put a name on it.
Then she immediately chased her tail, first in one direction and then the other. Naturally I want to capture those and put a names on them too.
She puts sooooo much style into these that they'd be ten kinds of wonderful for musical freestyle. Basically for the rest of that session (until I ran out of treats), I treated all of them. Any one that seemed to be lessening in frequency, I jackpotted.
Did I mention I think she's a canine genius?
Speaking of the canine genius, she is really mad at me right now. We had about a 100 treats and when they were gone the session was over and she had to go in a crate so I could let the others in out of the rain. So she is, not very patiently trying to explain to me how incredibly inappropriate it is to end her training session when SHE is having fun.
So, did I mention I think she's a canine genius?
2 comments:
Wow! She sounds really smart! And those moves? Adorable!
You oughta see some of the new ones she has come up with. She has learned to do this funny thing where she is backing up and then turns her head as if to bite her flank... and she seems to alternate the direction of the "bite" each time.
I'm working on a high stepping thing, I think I could shape it pretty easily, since she's really inclined to "airs about the ground".
I just have to get my timing better - it's really become poor in recent years. She is sooooooo smart and soooooo fast, that I keep getting things I wasn't aiming for because of my bad timing.
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