Special Bowl (1)

First, I did a session of indicator training.  Gimme got to do 45 repetitions of the easiest step, 15 with each odor.  It was a little challenging for me, to figure out how to do it and make it similar enough, as well as efficient and timely, given my current limitation.  I guess I did okay, because she remembered right away and did great. 

Later we did a session on special bowl training, an idea I got from my Hannah Branigan DVD set, Obedience FUNdamentals.  This is our second session and Gimme totally loves it.  I'm going to try to video what we are doing.  I think its a very exciting and powerful concept, full of potential.

I have to tell a funny story about it.  I was just talking to my non-dog friend, Linda, using the speaker phone.  I was telling her about special bowl, how it worked and how much fun Gimme was having with it.  Gimme was snoozing next to me on the couch, for all appearances sound asleep.  I told Linda that Hannah uses the cue "get it", but it already means something else to Gimme, so I've been using "Y-O-U-R-S".  Linda repeated out loud the word I just spelled - now remember, we're on speaker phone.


Gimme's head popped up, immediately alert to the possibilities and starts looking around for her special bowl, clearly flummoxed that I hadn't even moved from the couch.

Special bowl nowhere to be seen ---
what's the world coming to?