{"id":1277,"date":"2011-08-17T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T00:39:15","slug":"its-not-you-its-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/2011\/08\/17\/its-not-you-its-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not You. It’s Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heeling with focus.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s like one of those bad breakup lines but, in this case, it’s true! \ud83d\ude09 While I do still believe Risa’s occasional lack of focus while heeling has its roots in her hypervigilance and fear, I recently realized that it’s also my fault. I reward her for losing focus all the time. It’s just that, until a week ago, I didn’t even notice that I was doing it. (THIS is a perfect example of why it’s vital to have a knowledgeable someone watching you train. They will catch these mistakes before you make bad habits out of them.) Once I stepped back and thought about it, however, I knew I’d been doing this all along. Even if Risa looks away while heeling, I still choose to reward her. Even if I have to keep moving and wait for her to look back or, even worse, call her back to attention.<\/p>\n

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Exactly what I want. And, now that I've realized my error, I can hopefully start to get it more often!<\/p><\/div>\n

At this point, I should know better! I mean, I just talked about how I utilize what Kathy Sdao taught me about stopping if your dog misses\/misinterprets a cue. Yet I’ve never actually applied it when we’re working on heelwork. Even though my goal is to have eye contact part of the final heeling picture, I am doing a poor job attaining it. When I cue “fu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s like one of those bad breakup lines but, in this case, it’s true! \ud83d\ude09 While I do still believe Risa’s occasional lack of focus while heeling has its roots in her hypervigilance and fear, I recently realized that it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dancingcavy.com\/mysterisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}