I'm typing with my right hand as the left will be in a sling for another 4 weeks or so (see previous post: Disaster Strikes! for the details) and sometimes get a bit lazy when it comes to operating the shift key, hence this title not in caps. It may also create more typos, but I'm trying to get to them before publishing.
Daisy came to me with no respect for my personal space. As we've begun clicker training, I've positioned myself rather than ask her to move. While waiting for the next clicker training disks to arrive, it occurs to me that I am not teaching Daisy about space requirements if I do the adjusting!
It may be time to take an old door mat out to her pasture and work on getting her to stand on the mat with "STAND" as the command. That will give us something to work on while awaiting Alexandra Kurland's DVD's.
I would like to be working with Daisy in a halter and lead rope, but find it very difficult to halter her with one hand. She has been halter free for about three weeks now, ever since my accident and her head is shooting up when it needs to be down for the fly mask to be put on or for her to be haltered. But then, she' only had a few days of clicker training so far.
Another exercise we could work on is touching the target when I am holding her halter at the same time.
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