{"id":83,"date":"2008-07-01T22:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T05:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8statekate.aucado.us\/wordpress\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-08-08T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T04:53:20","slug":"sorting-toys-and-choose-to-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Sorting Toys and Choose to Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Cay has figured out how to come on my whistle by watching Chase. Today I practiced recalls on the whistle with her for the first time. All on her own, she learned to leave the inside toys inside and the outside toys outside. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to teach her these things because she pays close attention to the other dogs. Today I practiced \u00e2\u20ac\u0153choose to heel\u00e2\u20ac\u009d exercises individually with each dog.<!--more-->\u00c2\u00a0I learned this at a Dawn Jecs seminar many years ago. You start walking and continue on your way, with a high value treat held in your hand at the heel position (not used as a lure, but the dog must learn that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there). The food-motivated dog will eventually figure out that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a reward in finding heel position and will catch up with you and find that position. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great exercise because the dog has to think and find the desired position. When the dog reaches that position, I immediately reward so the light goes on in their head exactly when they reach that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cay has figured out how to come on my whistle by watching Chase. Today I practiced recalls on the whistle with her for the first time. All on her own, she learned to leave the inside toys inside and the outside toys outside. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to teach her these things because she pays close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.8statekate.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}