Mary & Riley, Week 4 Exam 5/31/24

This first video is just an extra. I haven’t done much training with Molly since her injury 3 months ago. I thought I’d do a little while waiting for Buck to arrive with Riley. I miss working her 😞

lol

Then Riley arrived. We did a little LL and she did well. Then on to the exam.

First a bit of a warm up. I don’t think I did pace changes during the exam so I included it in this video.. 

Then on to the exam…

The recall to SSIF

Approached by a stranger

This video is twofold. I don’t think I did any RAT during the exam so here’s a few. The other purpose of this video was to show Riley resisting the urge to lunge toward her placeboard/frontboard. She makes me laugh. She loves any kind of board 🤣

Further resistance to those boards. So proud of her. 

The down I didn’t do during the exam. Oops!

And done!

I told Mike to turn off the camera too soon. I did heel her out of her down and did an EF. Just a little brain fried. Both Riley and I!

I have to say this was one of the better days I’ve had with Riley. I know this exam was far from perfect and I also know Riley  doesn’t believe me 100% but she is starting to come around. The exam itself was a little rough but she’s working with me far better than she was a few short weeks ago as you can see in that nightmare of a tunnel of love video Roxanne posted recently. I see progress for sure.

Still workin’ on the wince…

 

 

 

Week 4 exam Trina

 Not sure that this will work. I tried to get it all in one video but I had some problems. I also had Darren come to do approach by stranger. I had him start the video. She did great after a couple tries. However when I come to upload video, it never got started.  So frustrated 😣. By the end of the hour today Riley was exhausted. Let me know if I need to redo and I will set up a time with Buck to make it happen. 

Week 4 HW

 Please forgive the delay in uploading Week 4.  This past week is, literally, a BLUR.  Week 4 HW is uploaded, the Week 4 Glossary, the Week 4 article, "Why is works" and the Week 4 EXAM.

5-29-24

Today was a successful day for Riley. We warmed up with LL. She did great. We moved on to healing, doing all turns and pace changes. I had her walk along poles and also work on downs.  We did several recalls with ssif. She hard a hard time sitting directly in front and needed a little help with that. We did complete a successful stand with 3 circles around her. Whew it was close though. She was doing so well in her sit stays I decided to take Roxanne’s suggestion and try a walk away stay. She did amazing. I was so proud of her. I’m hoping to do the exam with her tomorrow. I think she is ready. 

Mary and Riley, May 28, 5-6pm

First we did a little heeling…

Then we worked on some week 4 exercises. 

Recall to SSIF

On our first try there were so many distractions that Riley’s rear missed the board. There were kids, footballs, trash blowing in the wind, trash on the ground…the usual!

We tried a few more times and it was better even with the distractions.

Approach by a stranger

Down

….and done!

Training Schedule for Riley, May 28-June 1

Here’s the compressed training schedule for Riley this week

Tuesday, 5/28

Jessi AM

5-6pm Mary @ Monroe’s Soccer Fields

Wednesday, 5/29

11-12:30 Roxanne @ Annabella Community Center

5-6pm Trina @

Thursday, 5/30

8-9am Mary @MSF

5-6pm Trina 

Friday, 5/31

7:30am Jessi

Saturday, 6/1

8:30-9:30am Trina

Schedule