What we've been up to!

[Teresa]

Hello our ES friends! You may have noticed we have been much less active here in ES lately... well we have a very good reason:

We have been very busy adding some new skills to our list: I'm taking my first steps into proper dog training: Clicker training to be more specific - very time consuming!

And of course, Pitanga and Romã have been as busy as mee, helping me with my new skill!!!

I tought I'd let you guys with a few links of some videos I made with our more recent works:

Pitanga learning how to lick her nose:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_ylblhkXo

A few tricks Romã mastered, here shown already without the help of our clicker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WYloaKhBg

And just for fun, here is my guard dog Trigo, in his very first session. First he had to learn "click=reward" and then we did some sitting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzOm8cpzWqg

I'll be uploading a few more videos today, of Romã picking objects up, and Pitanga bringing them to me! Hope you guys like it :)

[Rhonda Fisher]

Reason for absence a very good one. Such patience Teresa. Looking forward to the next series of videos.

[Kimberly Simmons]

Good going Teresa!

[Teresa]

New set of videos already on youtube:
Pitanga bringing me stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKopr9V8Ewo

Romã picking up objects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKLT9YRu0dE

[Susan Stone]

Great! I do a lot of training with the clicker and am convinced we can get the best out of our dogs with this method. Wait til you try with a pup - you'll be even more astonished how fast they learn.