Monday, June 16, 2008

Water Series, Shore-handling Toolkit, Cheater

Summary. At Cheltenham:
  • Series A. Water series (Laddie)
  • Series B. Water series (Lumi)
  • Series C. Continued work on Tools #8 and #9 (Laddie)
  • Series D. Cheater (Lumi)
Series A. This was a poorman double for Laddie:
  • #1: LWL
  • #2: LWLW
Series B. This series consisted of an LWLWL poorman mark with the dummy on an angled shoreline, and a water blind.

Lumi showed distinct aversion to the point, even though she is trained with 2Q methods. I thought the similarity to 4Q dogs, who are typically taught with an ecollar to stay off points, was striking.

In retrospect, I decided it had been a mistake to plant the blind on a point. It is probably good that Lumi is reluctant to go to a point and has learned to prefer to swim past it, and it was probably not a useful lesson to show her that in this case I wanted her to break that rule.

Series C. This was continued work for Laddie on shore-handling toolkit Tools #8 and #9, which is the last step of a swim-by.

Series D. This was a long cheater past a point to restore Lumi's confidence in her understanding that, at least in most cases, I don't want her to divert to a point when she is swimming past one.

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