We have been working on the finger part of object retrieval briefly before breakfast most days. Today I remembered to grab my phone.🤪. She is doing so much better. @Amanda Taulborg thank you for the tip to turn away. I made sure to have a “not playing that game” energy when doing that and it was a huge help in moving forward. Today I felt a big shift in her (our?) confidence and now I can now put my finger all the through her mouth! We had one slight pull away but quickly reset. At the end she gave me a great “Me”! Man when they look you in the eyes like that . . . 🥹🥲

Here we are doing some work on her tasking still not enjoying her face begin touched

We did some mouth/object dense session with EPCOT fireworks streaming on tv. I thought some easy training to start with would be good dense for face touching with fireworks. We touch her face often so she isn’t so bad about face and teeth. It’s the finger she likes to push out. I heard Amanda in my head to go back to easy and then try harder when she was “fighting”. I also realized fireworks while doing “object” desense would be asking a little too much. So after i muted at the very end, I did get some first knuckle “object” finger inserts. I got three good ones and of course ran out of treats.😜 So we will work on it again more tomorrow.

I’m sure she’s not doing this right because she’s a little overly excited, but it’s the first day we started with our item retrieval so here’s a little clip of it

We took Saffy to a local park for a walk and worked on heeling in a very stimulating environment. We came across someone playing with a very big remote control car and James just had to go see it!😂 When we got close James put Saffy in a sit stay to watch as it come closer. We got an added distraction of a small girl on a foot scooter go by with the owner of the car. Saffy only quietly whined once and immediately corrected after a quiet. She did so good! The experience was much longer than the little video I got. She was very excited after so James had her a down stay with a leash distance walk away and I was able to get some cute leave pictures!😊 She was able to decompress in a calm way.