I'm very pleased how Divine's pivots are nicely done when I turn left or right. It didn't take much. I'm also pleased that she no longer rocks back when she sits. I did notice however, when I was away from home, and we went the second time through a rally course, her old habits came back. This just tells me I need to reinforce her much more in a variety of settings.
Tonight I started with making sure when she sits, she pulls both of her back feet tighter under her. She has been sitting with her hind legs out. I certainly want her to sit up like a lady or maybe it is more a Ten Hut!
I've been luring her to see if this works as I have never trained a dog that had a sit where their back legs would splay outward. I'm learning through this process in how to lure her to get her body in the position I want. I can't really say what I'm doing, other than it is working. I"m so pleased in how fast she is working through sitting with out rocking, pivoting nicely that I'm so pleased with myself as a handler how fast I am able to solve these things.
Divine is such a happy eager worker that it is a joy to work with her. We have a lot more refining training to do, that I probably won't enter her in a show until maybe Oct/Nov or wait until January.
I also worked Divine on Nose Work today. Today was the first day I paired scent. I'm just going to keep doing this over and over, and will add less food, until I can see if she targets the odor. I just know she will get this before Mickey. I'm working them both on odor and hope I can get their Odor Recognition Test (ORT) in early May.
