Capitol Lake again

We walked around Capitol Lake again.  We didn't talk to very many people, but those we did talk to were longer conversations.  Gimme was quicker about reading the pee mail and I'm starting to introduce the idea that you don't have to read every drop, "let's go" and I start walking.  She's mostly okay with it.  There were a LOT more dogs today... at least twenty.  So by the time we stop for a peanut butter break, that eats up a lot of time.  Thus our 1.5 mile walk took 1:23...

Came home to do a session of just sit, down and touch - trying to tighten up her responses.  I'm really convinced now that she doesn't listen that closely and often just throws one at me, guessing and hoping it is right.  Either the verbal cues were never strongly in place or they've become lost along the way.  The "touch" is probably the most accurate.  However, since that is accompanied by my hand moving into position, she may be responding to a hand signal rather than a verbal.  Her accuracy on sit and down was only about 60%.  That really surprised me.

In my living room with no distractions to speak of, she should be very close to 100% on those three.  Granted we just came from a walk and she may have been a little mentally fatigued, but I still think she should have been more accurate than 60%.  I will try it tomorrow morning when she is "fresh" to establish a baseline. 

Obviously we are going to do a lot more with this before I go back to using it for the wait for the cue phase of learning on the two fruit Project behaviors that are on cue. 

Tomorrow night we start the class downtown.  Its a CGC class and so we should come out of class with that certificate.  Though, of course, my main goal is for her to be able to work in that setting.