Hillmann Traffic Cop Update
We're now doing bumper/duck tosses land and water with a hey-hey. She's staying right by my side. So far so good. The next stage, according to the DVD will be a shot and toss. I might add an extra step with a Dogtra duck-quack that always juices her up. (It's the electronic release box that normally goes with a Zinger-Winger.) Then when that is working, the quack and a shot.
Hillmann says if you're doing Traffic Cop because you've got a "self-employed, independent contractor" for a dog, it will take thousands of repetitions to get their SIT fixed. I've calculated we're around 1500 by now.
On these hot summer days we're in the park before 8:00 AM and evening after 6:00 PM doing drills designed to sharpen line behavior. Heel-No-Here-Push-Pull etc. She's getting sharper and sharper. She front-ends me, but knows she has to put herself in Nose-over-Toes position before she can go. So she's adjusting herself. Maybe soon she'll just naturally assume the right position.
So tedious. It's all stuff she knows but she knows to do them with the pro. I didn't realize she and I would have to start from scratch getting it together to work as a team.
But it's working. (Big sigh!)