This past week I've started clicker-training the heeling with Kim. I am not used to practising the clicker, but I have read a lot about it and done a few exersices with Tintin such as roll a ball. Started clicking when Kim made eyecontact with me. He figured that out rather quick. But he didn't understand the position to the left of me (that's the standard position in Sweden), he would look at me from any position, with great contact, but I couldn't Click/Treat. Don't know if I should have?

<<< Kim 6 months.

Anyway I started thinking about how to get him to understand that the position means something too, and started with him in the correct position and taking a step forward or to the right. So far so good, he followed and I could C/T. On the third day I tried to make a left turn, ie turning towards Kim. I only made a tiny, tiny turn, and Kim did great! C/T. The second time he didn't react. I waited. And waited. Suddenly he got up, looked at me and hesitated, then went around my back and came up in the correct position. I C/T. He actually made a full turn around me, instead of just correcting his "rear end" :-)

And guess what - now he does that full turn EVERY single time I go for a left turn!!! To stop this behaviour, I lined up against our couch, you can't imagine what he did then? He jumped up in the couch and down again, so that he could get around me and make that full turn that he got rewarded ONCE. Talk about fast-learning :-D Now we line up against a wall...

Bye from Karin and Kim, the "smartie"!