Logan Training Session Saturday 14th March

Kenny wanted to see what we had been doing with the dog walk. So I put Logan on the lead and he ran over the dog walk but as per norm I was not fast enough to control the all important contact. Kenny just shook his head, he has the Patience of a saint!
As I had clicker trained Logan and He is is always offering behaviour to gain free food or a toy Kenny had a plan.
Logan would learn to offer the correct behaviour starting on the contact. This was a similar way I taught Rhu (got something right!!) to do her contacts.
The lesson began and Logan picked up the behaviour in no time. Occasionally needing a little help. I began to feel more confident that I could control him on the contact. The criteria would be two on two off the behaviour I was rewarding was a down. Initially I was luring Him with food which was not correct he had to work out what I wanted before the reward came. Kenny was correcting my handling which Logan responded to. At the end of the session Logan was trying various things while we were talking touching the plank and looking for reward. We also started training the 2x2 weave and once Kenny had explained it shown me what to do Logan began to weave!!! It took Logan a while to realise to get the reward he had to go through two weave poles squarely from the same side. The wee man was Fab he offered some funny behaviour but once he got the idea he was awesome. I wanted to keep reinforcing what we had learned so it was off to the field the next day. Claire and Mark joined us and Mark did a great impression of David Bailey. I have uploaded the video. Sent the video to Sue and she is teaching Billy Logan 's brother the same way.

We had another practice today Logan was really working hard the wee scone. He got to play with the ball for half an hour for 5mins training. Owe and 1/2 smoked sausage for completting the correct behaviour on the dog walk. Not a bad life.