I snuck out in the heat for a little training tonight and, wouldn't you know it, Shasta almost slipped off the teeter and hung on through it. But it scared her. And she refused it after that.
I helped her across a few times and she didn't freak but she didn't want to do it. Next, we went to the baby dogwalk. Sure enough, totally balked at that too.
I started by back-chaining the dogwalk. Lifted her up and put her on the downside. She went to bottom position fine. Lifted her up again and put her on the top board. She continued on fine. Went to do the whole dogwalk and she did it apprehensively. Went to do the whole dogwalk again and she was back to happy Shasta with it. Did it a couple more and she was back to running at it.
I went to do a little mini-sequencing and she almost took the teeter even though I wasn't asking for it. So, I did a little mini-sequence and sent her to the teeter. She did it great at speed. I tried again with speed and she balked so I asked again and she went over it but it was without speed. We did it two more times without speed but without help and she did them fine.
Hopefully tomorrow the weather cooperates and we'll see where we are at. It will be interesting to see if the foundation we've done will help keep this as a short-term issue or if it is a longer-term issue. I don't have a good feel this time how it will go tomorrow, I could see it being no issue, I could see her being worried and putting on the brakes again to start.
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