We have been working on a few things today - one of which is changing Luna over to an older hand signal I used to use for SIT all the time, which is just a palm up motion. This is worked much better for her and her response has gone from being 45-50% to about 90% reliable.
She is also working with Fizz loose in the room learning to ignore distractions, learning FREE which is one of her release cues and learning to differentiate between cues. For instance if I ask for a TOUCH or KENNEL and she offers a DOWN, she has to listen to and work out what I actually wanted.
Then there is the actual body work. SIT to a lot of dogs means - put your rear end on the ground. But what if they are in a DOWN? Their rear is already on the ground, so what then? They often have no idea what you are talking about.
I teach SIT as a body position to be in - that it is not important how they got there. So she will be able to SIT from both a STAND or a DOWN, DOWN from both a SIT and a STAND, and STAND from both SIT and DOWN. I want her to understand the concept in multiple contexts - not just SIT = rear end goes down.
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