#sagetrain

Wooop actually doing a lot of training today. I lost my fav clicker so I had to use my old pos clicker and it's barely holding together. With Susie, we worked on: Touch Watch me Mat work Stand Her touch is fab, she really presses into my palm and so far she's done well with adding distance. I've never taught her a cue for watch me, I've always just reinforced for eye contact, but it's definitely a handy cue and now I'm finding it hard to believe i never trained it before. She offers me eye contact a lot so it's coming nicely. I got lazy with the mat work when we started a few months ago, so I started from scratch today. She seems to remember some of what we did, at least. Hand signal for stand was 100% this session, still working on verbal. With Sage: Touch- we've done a couple sessions with this, it's still in the early stages but he definitely gets the idea. Mat work- He is so good with this it's hilarious. I guess maybe because he's always calm and relaxed. He remembered everything tho. I got farther working on this with Sage than Susie. He immediately sat on the mat and then shortly after rolled on his side, did a long stretch, yawned, started cleaning himself, etc, getting reinforced all the while. He really is the most attentive pupil, I realllllllly need to start training him more. He talks to me the whole time and it's hilarious. Tyger: Sit- he's got the hand signal, adding verbal Touch This was our first session with touch and wow he was on fire. Got the idea after the second reinforcement, was so eager & engaged, he did quite well. So, we're making progress. Good stuff.