I also previously wrote that I love my routines and I really struggle with how puppies disrupt the routines. The disruption is greatly diminished now. It's still a disruption but it's not overwhelming. Which leads to the question, is my feeling of the emotional connection blossoming from our relationship or is it really just a result of Shasta becoming part of our routines? I'll never know for sure.
As for training, we've been doing more of the same: sits, rights, introduced lefts, puppy teeter, shaping on the beverage tray. What's new this week is introducing her to some of the obstacles in the yard. I put out the puppy dog walk, two planks and the table top sitting on the ground. We've been running the walk (see photo above, she thinks it's fun!). I've also shaped her to putting herself in a bottom position on the planks. I have not yet put it together. But the bottom position is going great. I've always lured it in the past, this time it's purely shaped, to this point anyway. It will be interesting to see if it's more entrenched or not over time.
Shasta is also going through curved tunnels and we introduced the chute. She quickly learned to blast through the chute without assistance. That "suction effect" of a chute did not seem to affect her at all.
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