- DAY OFF
- First long down until 10 minutes in a row Monday, March 2⋅9:00 – 9:15am---no equipment---in master bedroom while Shana knows Lucy is on the dog side (15 min)
- Place no equipment until 30 minutes Monday, March 2⋅9:30 – 10:10am---in master bedroom (40 min)
- Second long down until 10 minutes in a row Monday, March 2⋅11:00 – 11:15am---no equipment---in masterbedroom (15 min)
- 3rd long ten minute down in a row but in kitchen while Lucy is in the mudroom which she can both smell and hear---no equipment (20 minutes)
- Short tug session Monday, March 2⋅11:35 – 11:50am---no equipment---in living room next to kitchen (15 minutes)
- ACTIVITY NOT TRAINING PER SAY Robert brought out to play frisbee and ball games with her brothers (1 hour)
- 4th long 10 minute in a row down later in the evening (20 minutes)
- 10 minutes in a row long down with Shana outside while I do sit on the dog with Buster outside---muzzle on and ecollar on but not used (45 minutes, obviously stressful doing it in another area with Buster around)
- Mini pack walk with Reggie Tuesday---ecollar on but not used and muzzle brought but not used, March 3⋅2:00 – 3:00pm (1 hour)
- K9 life line steps 1 to 2 in yard ---transitional leash only Tuesday, March 3⋅3:00 – 3:10pm (10 minutes)
- Laundry fetch---had little riled up and barking---no equipment Wednesday, March 4⋅11:00 – 11:20am (20 minutes)
- Shana place in step in mudroom while I was working Buster on other side of gate---muzzle and probably ecollar but I did not note it Wednesday, March 4⋅1:22 – 2:00pm (48 minutes)
- Shana Place ---Probably in my bedroom while I did busy work----no equipment Thursday, March 5⋅10:00 – 11:00am (1 hour)
- ACTIVITY AND SOME TRAINING---experimented with harness on bike (not as good) ---Shana bike ride around the yard---muzzle and ecollar on but not used---Tried to roll in the grass as we were riding a few times Thursday, March 5⋅11:30 – 11:45am (15 minutes)
- Come and place reps before bringing Shana downstairs (to calm her roll)---no equipment---(5 minutes)
- ACTIVITY AND SOME TRAINING----no equipment-----Shana fetch and find with friends in dog room (1 hour)
- Place in Dog Room with her Friends---no equipment--- (30 minutes)
- DAY OFF
- K9 lifeline steps 1 to 2 Sunday, March 8⋅12:00 – 12:30pm----transitional leash only outside dog pen with Prince Buster and Tug in it (30 minutes)
- Quiet in crate----n crate geing treated every five minutes for not barking at daycare and training dogs ecollar on but not needing to use it but using lots of food every five minutes---Prince Tug and Buster on other side of gate (45 minutes)
- Come and place reps outside picnic table rock place board and garden bench Sunday, March 8⋅3:30 – 3:40pm---ecollar on but not used----(10 minutes until four in a row of place and comes completed)
- Quick obedience routine on ecollar in front yard, four downs, four sits, four downs in motion, four sits in motion, four drops, place and come reps at multiple locations around the yard, and ended with some rapid fire commands---only use collar on vibrate to indicate she had the wrong command (fuss vs come) or wrong place (picnic table vs place stand) (30 minutes)
- Ball fetch and train where fetch put away toys...(30 minutes)
- DAY OFF
- DAY OFF
- DAY OFF
- Training Shana on the bike with the new thing we purchased. Tried it on harness instead of collar, and did not like it. Prefer the setup where I have my convertible leash hooked up to contraption for safety. (30 minutes)
- Training Shana on bike without the contraption so she stops trying to poke or bite me off of it. Bike ride with down stay and leave it--- started one rotation down 4 times in a row then 4 rotational, if she broke it touched me, then after awhile that became down--- let's go on down repeated 4 times then start 4 rotations then down and then 4 running rotations (1 hour)
- (Before bike ride) Fetch with ball, but then Shana would not find last one, probably should have kept the game shorter (15 minutes)
- DAY OFF----GUESSING THAT I WAS WORKING OFF THE SHOCK OF WHAT IS GOING ON
- DAY OFF----SAME AND GUESSING THIS IS WHY SHANA STARTED GETTING SO SQUIRRELY
- Sit down come fuss reps in mudroom with friends Cujo Bandit and Boris and less familiar dogs in crates, Tug and Prince (30 minutes)
- Bike ride sits in motion then downs in motion until 4 in a row for one rotation. (30 minutes)
- Down 10 minutes in a row after snarling at Cujo.when he bumped into her (15 minutes
- SHANA'S MOOD grumpy (SIGNS SHE MAY BE GOING INTO HEAT)
- DAY OFF
- SHANA'S MOOD CONTINUED GRUMPS AT BROTHERS
- DAY OFF
- SHANA'S MOOD GETTING A BIT CRAY CRAY
- Flirt pole and train fuss come go down sit (30 minutes)
- Laundry fetch lots of barking and long downs to combat that (45 minutes)
- ACTIVITY MOST OF ALL BUT TRAINING LIKE FETCH ET Frisbee and probably a 10 minute break in between sessions (1 HOUR)
- ACTIVITY MOST OF ALL BUT TRAINING LIKE FETCH ET (30 MINUTES)
- SHANA'S MOOD ALRIGHT---LOT'S OF NESTING AND STILL SNARKING AT ZIGGY AND TOMMY
- Tug and train primarily back without barking Monday, March 23⋅9:00 – 9:15am (15 minutes)
- K9 lifeline steps 1 to 2 Monday, March 23⋅11:15 – 11:30am (15 minutes)
- Relaxation walk (1 hour)
- SHANA'S MOOD ALRIGHT---LESS SNARKING BUT STILL SNARKING AT ZIGGY AND TOMMY
- TRAINING: Tug for back without barking (has been a real issue of late) (15 minutes)
- TRAINING BUT ALSO RESPONSE TO INITIAL SNARKING: Two ten minute downs so far (20 minutes---no problems)---probably did four during the day but forgot to log them down
- ACTIVITY: Ball wall with Reggie and Boris Tuesday, March 24⋅11:30am – 12:30pm---no equipment and Shana's main job to get any loose balls fetched "fetch" or lost "where" (needed more guidance on where to search) (1 hour)
- TRAINING: Ball wall four downs went fast, spins less fast and she started morphing it into a u turn, so I.made sure she did two spins before the ball to make sure they were right, then overs even harder so I did four reps with one repeat (30 MINUTES)
- SHANA'S MOOD: a bit more content today, though still snarking sometimes
- #1 10 minutes in a row down got up and barked when Tommy came in the room---down in bathroom (15 minutes)
- K9 lifeline step 1and 2 in dog room with brothers and Cujo/Bandit Wednesday, March 25⋅12:15 – 12:30pm (15 minutes)
- K9 lifeline step 3 in dog room with Cujo and Bandit Wednesday, March 25⋅12:30 – 12:45pm (15 minutes)
- K9 Lifeline step 4 with Cujo and Bandit and brothers in dog room Wednesday, March 25⋅12:45 – 1:00pm (15 minutes)
- K9 Lifeline step 5 challenge---no panic attack or melt down today--'probably saw about eight dogs out with four in their yard---serious whining commenced at thirty minutes but no panic attack (2 hours)
- #2 10 minute in a row down after snarling at Tommy----set her up in the bathroom (10 minutes
- #3 10 min in a row down again after snarling at Tommy for coming into bedroom---again away in master bedroom (10 minutes)
- #4 10 min in a row down not after snarling at anyone---just to get it out of the way (10 minutes)
- SHANA'S MOOD: pretty content, happy and snarky level down
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIOR: #1 long down 10 min in a row after small bark.at Tommy for passively aggressively scoping out her sun spot but not actively trying to get it (15 minutes)
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIOR: #2 10 min I'm a row long down after barking and bullying Reggie for being first near the door when it was time to go out. Most of it out of sight because I did not want to hold up everyone else (45 minutes)
- ACTIVITY: Frisbee play that always includes fetch and out (30 minutes)
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIOR: #3 10 min down in a row---broke at five minutes to retrieve frisbee then stayed down but tried rolling in the grass (15 MINUTES)
- TRAINING AND PLAY: Flirt pole out, fuss, down, sit, spin, and go (25 minutes)
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIOR: #4 long down after doing little snark at Reggie while he greeted her (he in the couch, she walking up to me)--'felt it was as good time as any for number 4 today (15 minutes)
- TRAINING AND ACTIVITY: Biking not on leash, but no touch and sit, let's go practice in movement (30 minutes)
- ACTIVITY: Biking and Shana attached to biking contraption (15 minutes)
- SHANA'S MOOD: content, happy, and snarky even less today, meaning not as much effort put into it
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING: #1 long 10 min in a row down after snarling at Tommy walking towards me, Tommy did take her bed later but did not look like he was going for it (15 min)
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING: #2 10 min long down in a row after tiny snark at Tommy but he wanted the sun spot which was not where she was (10 min)
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING: #3 10 min in a row long down after snark at Tommy for coming in the room (10 min)
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING: #4 10 min a row down after Tommy snark again for coming in the room (10 MIN)
- BEHAVIORAL AND VERY LIGHT TRAINING: Walk out in dirt roads Friday, March 27⋅3:00 – 5:00pm No whining today until the 37 minute mark, and then stopped once we got to Ellis Park (1 hour, and played a five minute training game of tug just outs for training), saw probably a dozen dogs along the way, and ones fairly close up (10 feet) on the way back home where everyone seemed to be walking their little dog (btw the whining probably started again at 15 minutes from home so at the 1 hour 45 minute mark---after that much combined adventure, fun, and definite stress I think she is ready to go home, but the window is getting longer and longer), she was definitely less worried and parts and more interested in sniffing what was around, no real alerts as we were about to come up upon dogs (whereas before he behavior would definitely change so I knew a cat, dog or something was coming up), loved the grass rolls at Ellis Park along with the tug game and plenty of dogs to view, which she ignored completely during the game----barked once at Finn on the way home, she started to get nervous when she saw him, but held back until he barked at her---progress!
- BEHAVIOR AND TRAINING: #5 long 10 minute in a row down after barking at Tommy later in the evening for just coming in (10 min)
- SHANA'S MOOD: despite the Tommy snarks (he is such a good guy and brother to put up with her) she was in a really good and contented mood. NOTE: Even when I was working with another dog and using the bike to do it, she did not complain, make a sound or act jealous or aggressive while doing it (she was on the porch with Robert and her brothers). She normally complains a bit when it is not all about her.
- BEHAVIOR AND TRAINING: #6 long 10 minute in a row down after barking at Tommy later in the evening (10 min)
- DAY OFF
- SHANA'S MOOD VERY CONTENTED---ONLY ONE SNARK AT TOMMY WHICH I LET ROBERT HANDLE HIMSELF
- ALSO DAY OFF
- SHANA'S MOOD RELAXED AND PRETTY NAPPY DURING THE DAY. A FEW SNARKS AT HER BROTHER I THINK, BUT I DID NOT WRITE THEM DOWN. MUST HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO NONE, AS I DID NOT NOTATE ANY LONG DOWNS THAT TEND TO BE PRACTICED AFTER THAT. SO NOTHING THAT MADE ME TAKE MUCH NOTICE
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIORAL: Helping me put away laundry (video at top) no equipment---wanted four reps of four items in a row then four times of that with no barking, but instead got two reps of two items and that subset four times in a row at the end of the training (30 minutes)
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING: Mini Pack walk with Baby Stella---Shana was whining a lot and it was very rainy (Shana does not enjoy) she was nervous but having a good time catching scents ---very tight leash at times and very anxious to get home at the end (2 hours and 20 minutes)
- SHANA'S MOOD VERY CONTENTED
- TRAINING Worked until four five minute places in a row with tug Tuesday, March 31⋅8:30 – 9:50am (1 HOUR AND 20 MINUTES)
- BEHAVIORAL AND TRAINING In crate and 4 5 min quiet practice with new Chewbacca in houseTuesday, March 31⋅10:50 – 11:50am (1 HOUR)
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIORAL #1 long ten minute down in mudroom with new puppy Chewbaccs and daycare (20 minutes)
- BEHAVIORAL K9 lifeline steps 1 to 2 Tuesday, March 31⋅12:10 – 12:20pm (10 minutes)
- BEHAVIORAL K9 lifeline step 3 (15 minutes)
- BEHAVIORAL K9 lifeline step 4 (15 minutes)
- BEHAVIORAL AND DOWNTIME In crate in mudroom Tuesday, March 31⋅12:45 – 2:45pm (2 hours)
- TRAINING AND BEHAVIORAL #2 10 min in a row down after snarling at Tommy (30 minutes)