Gretchen

Gretchen is doing extremely well. She stops on a dime and I don't really ever need to reinforce her whoa command. She still hovers very closeby in expectation, though, and I;d like to see her work past that. We progress to draggin the checkcord, which creates enough pull that she is holding back alot. She mostly just needs repetition to gain confidence, but is nearly ready to move to major distractions.
Gretchen is having a house training issue and has somehow developed that habit of sneaking off to pee on the rug in a far away unseen corner. If she is on the hardwood floor only, she will whine to go out, but if there is rug available and no one watching she will not ask. GRRR. so I need to fix this ASAP. I can keep her on the hardwood and praise her when she goes out and push her into the habit of asking louder, but I think this will allow to many mistake with the kids. Even this morning I had set up to work with her and one child "let" her onto the carpet when I knew she needed to go and was trying to catch her elsewhere. The best way I see to fix this is to set her up with the ecollar and try to be where I can watch, but she does not realize I am watching and use a high setting to correct her without any verbal link or association with humans. I need her to think this will happen whether we are watching or not.
While I am doing this I think she will get very timid with the collar training and I am going to quit the other work. She is ready to move on to FF anyway, so that is what we will do. I just need to fix the zip line on my table. So much to do, so little time....