My puppy ROCKS!

Fizz has had a full two days.   We've worked on a lot of training games, including "Its Your Choice" with food on the floor, and Fizz maintaining focus on the food, not giving me eye contact but rather, backing off the food to earn it.  We worked on rewards in RZ, and "play with the toy that I have," including switching between toys of various ranks.

Making sure that Fizz gets out to many places, she ran errands in the car (no car sickness!), met the staff in the Church office, staff at pre-school after school finished for the day, and went to the vet for a well visit.  

Later that afternoon, we went to the local lake to explore sand, water, and rusty chains.   The joys of a 70F day in November!






If you need a "cute puppy fix" video, here's a bit from the lake. :)

This morning, we started with puppy proprioception work, and ground poles in the back yard.  Coming in to get breakfast and do some chin heeling to earn it.  Fizz works for at least 2 meals a day, if not 3.  I'm currently feeding her 4x a day.   After Emilie was on the bus, we got out the BOSU.   What an incredible way to teach a puppy balance, weight shifts, and general body awareness.   Thank you so much to Susan Garrett for this idea!  Her Puppy Peaks program is just stuffed with stellar ideas and examples.   From the moment I met Fizz, she's shown little issue with anything environmental.  Her reaction to the very tippy BOSU is an extension of that fearlessness.  She wasn't bothered by it one bit.  I think back to having to work with adult Froli on a tippy board before doing agility teeters, what a world of difference! :)    This was shot just before lunch, and you can see that once again, my toy does not rank with the puppy crack...........but I was also being a bad trainer and did not have a tug ready, so had to improv (and have since "lost" Vik's favorite fribbee........sigh).   My rockin' BOSU girl:

For other environmental stimuli today, we went to check out the Water Dept guy flushing the fire hydrant in front of our house (boy did James think THAT was grand!), and she hung out in an ex-pen while we split wood this afternoon........not at all bothered by the machine, cracking logs or flying bits.  Falling leaves magically appearing in her pen were her idea of "awesome!"