Day 85: ‘Jumping’ Out of My Way (When I am on the Fence.)

While I was working with Reece I realized that we were getting lazy about reactions on a dime and I was letting her saunter around lazily. She was obviously getting bored and she didn’t want to work at her best. I decided to change it up some. I could send her while sitting on a fence, but the farthest I had ever gone with that was having her nose in my lap and she would swing her but around and back up when I asked her to. I backed her all the way up and had her face so she was parallel with the fence. It took a few tries but she finally figured out what I was asking her to do. Now she was listening and honestly trying to learn rather than just going through the motions. I asked her to walk forward and after a few confused ‘I’ll just walk to mommy’ s she figured out it was like I was sending her, just like if I was on the ground. Soon she was listening well enough to be side passing away from me and do semicircle ‘lunging’. she was again interested and jumping at what I asked her to do.