Distractions

Once again, I spent a few minutes with Bethena and then with Iggy in the office lobby before working yesterday morning (writing up charts often happens on the weekend).

Bethena does great dropping instantly from a distance if she's not moving, and got better as we practiced. When she's already moving, she thinks she needs to keep coming forward for a few steps, so we're working on not doing that.

She's also started to "wait" before going after the dumbbell, which is fantastic.

Iggy needs more warming-up, because it's so new to him. He needs to be reminded of what we're doing! Practicing in the lobby actually worked very well, as the clock began chiming the hour and he stopped, looked around, and watched the clock to see what was happening. I was able to get him re-focused, but not until the end of the chime.

We did not practice for a whole hour to see what he would do the second time.

He is getting better and better at finishing and going down, to the point where he will do what Bethena does: if he doesn't quite know what I want, he'll go down because he knows he gets lots of praise for doing that.

We'll see how the rest of the week goes.