Day 46

Short update. She does "Tap" now. Which is hitting my hand/a target with her nose rather than her paw.

Was very easy to teach her and she caught on right away!

Day 41

So she's got Bow and Beg down now so we've moved on to Sorry and Weave.

Sorry was quite simple. She already automatically puts her head down when I'm holding a treat, so I incorporated a command in there. Needing some leading at first and now she's got it down. I'll eventually go from there to teach her nod. So we'll start working on bringing her head up after she puts it down.

Got a video of her doing Sorry
http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c260/travis_gsd27/Mobile%20Uploads/?action=view&current=0412001540.flv

Weave still needs a lot of luring. I can walk along side the weave poles and hold my hand in the air and she'll follow so it's not major luring. She does it better fast though. If I walk slowly she seems to get confused lol but if I do it at a jog she gets it better.

Now we're at

Days Left: 50
Tricks Left: 69

Tricks to work on:
Say Hello
Tap [touch an object with her nose]
drop on fuss
Bounce [resembles a pogo stick]
Crawl
Yawn
Shake head no
Nod

Update

Still working on strengthening Bow.

I need to take her out and work on the items for the OB trial in public. She performs them in the yard, but I need to make sure she'll do it in public too. I don't want to get to the trial and then she has a spaz moment. Show is June 12 I believe so I still have a ways to go.

No real updates, but here are the tricks I want to work on:

Say Hello
Tap [touch an object with her nose]
drop on fuss
Bounce [resembles a pogo stick]
Crawl
Yawn
Sorry
Shake head no

I was also thinking of doing something completely useless like put 3 markers in the shape of a triangle and teach her to go to each post individually with a separate command for each. Can you tell I'm desperate here for new things? hah

Day 35

So...I was out of town for a week and wasn't able to work with her at all. I had to leave her in CA while I was in UT :[

Anyway, I got back on Saturday and we picked right back up where we left off.

We worked on two new things. Beg and Bow. Beg she got instantly. It's fairly simple so I wasn't overly surprised.
Bow took her a tad bit longer to catch on. Naturally, she wants to lay completely down rather than just putting her front end down. I've been practicing with her and putting either my hand or foot under her so only her front end can go down. She'll do it every so often without my hand there, but it isn't solid. Definitely need to practice it some more.

Since we'll be -finally- starting our Love On A Leash visits I'm going to be introducing "Say Hello" to her. For this all she needs to do is walk up and place her head in my lap. Will be nice for the visits.

Days Left: 56
Tricks Left: 71

I'm tempted to cheat and extend our end date since I missed that week. Debating...