lure to touch
Another one of our exercises is to teach Skye to touch things (eventually the leash) by herself.
- Start only with a towel on your knee or on another surface.
- Use food to lure Skye’s head 1-2 inches towards the towel and then reward her.
- Continue to build on this movement towards the towel using the food lure technique with the goal of Skye getting closer to the towel.
- Eventually, we would like to see Skye start to touch the towel while she eats the treat (but this may be a few weeks away!)
I kind of went too fast and started with the leash directly. Useless to say that it didn’t work. Skye was like “this is a trap!”.
Then I removed the leash and used a towel instead, but Skye was still quite suspicious about the whole thing.
Finally, I decrease the difficulty by placing the towel directly on a chair and keeping it short.
We will see what our trainer says but I think I messed up that training exercise quite a bit. Not Skye’s fault.
