The Evening Training Session

This video is a "warts 'n' all" show of this evening's training session. The only edits are splits in the video to create titles. Other than that, you see the mistakes as they happened.

The beauty of video is that I can see things that I haven't been able to see properly. I can see, for example, that her latency (the time it takes from giving the command to Ellie carrying it out), is reducing. That's a good thing.

I had to artificially increase the lighting of the video as it was shot under artificial lighting and was quite dark. I think it's viewable though.

We both really enjoyed this evening's session. She loves jumping up on my back, and she's getting much better at it; being able to jump much higher.

Enjoy..

Ellie Goes "In Yer Tin"

The following video shows Ellie doing two of her standard behaviours. The first one was in response to Jan's Mum making a comment that she wished Ellie could close the door, as she was chilly. So, I made it happen before she next visited.

In the second behaviour, Ellie opens the door to her crate and then steps in. She never leaves her crate until she's invited to do so. We call this behaviour "In yer tin". It just sounds better than "In yer crate". :)

Enjoy it...

Unedited Clicker Training Session

I decided to do some retrieve and hold work with Ellie this morning. I chose an object that she had no previous experience with, a purse.

We hadn't done any other training this morning. I was going to limit her to about fifteen minutes to see how far she got in that time. However, as you'll see from the video, she didn't need that long.

For some reason, my timing absolutely sucked this morning. Once again, Ellie is the star, and I mess up. :)


The following video is an unedited version of the training session.