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		<title>Beginning Retriever/Field Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the weather is starting to get nice in Illinois it is time to buckle down &#038; start working on field training. The other day we got out to the field by my house &#038; threw the small Dokken (fake duck) to just see where we were at in the game. I kept a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interactive Food Toys – A Way of Life!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have talked a few times about how Rizzo is not fed from a bowl. I have been taking Ian Dunbar&#8217;s idea of that a dog does not &#8220;earn&#8221; a bowl until they are trained. Well at 12 months trust me Rizzo is NO WHERE near trained. So food still comes from training sessions or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Settle” the debate….</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So back in October I posted about the debate on to feed the settle behavior or not. At that time I was choosing not to feed it to see how the behavior progressed. Well as the picture here shows it has progressed really well! This past weekend Rizzo &#038; I attended Clicker Expo Chicago (really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heeling for King Cake!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Mardi Gras &#038; in memory of my father I bought a King Cake to share with my classes. I had a little time between clients so I decided to work on a little heeling. I remembered that I have not video taped how Rizzo&#8217;s heeling is coming along in quite awhile so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Whole Year Old!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been very slacker-ish to posting! Sorry &#8211; My new years promise already broken. March 4, 2011 was Rizzo&#8217;s first birthday. I can&#8217;t believe my puppy is a year old. Yes, she is still very much a puppy! So we have been spending a lot of time at conformation shows. The last weekend in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit Box – Oh how I love you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have been reading I have been having a problem/realization that Rizzo does not know &#8220;sit&#8221;. That is coming along. She actually will sit one cue more often then not &#8211; but I have not tested it. Instead I have been working on her sit box behavior. Sit box behavior you&#8217;re asking? Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sit can Happen!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I think we might have broken through Rizzo&#8217;s issue with holding her dumbbell &#038; going from a stand to a sit. We successfully were able to do it a few times. Interestingly sometimes you have to give things a quarter page turn to get to the end result. Today&#8217;s quarter page turn was giving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be careful what you ask for…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So when I started talking to American Water Spaniel breeders I would say that I was looking for a bold, unflappable, food motivated, engaged, look at me world puppy. Well guess what I got?? Do you know how many times it has been &#8220;discussed&#8221; with Rizzo that getting on the table is NOT allowed&#8230;.too many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When your puppy doesn’t know “SIT”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yikes, so this week I realized that Rizzo does not have sit on cue! I purposely did not put SIT on cue for a long time because I was so specific about how I wanted it to look. When Rizzo was younger if she offered a sit she would move away from you to sit. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.roottrainingblog.com/?p=270</link>
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		<title>Is it too late to add some 2011 training goals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think since we&#8217;re only 5 days into Jan. 2011 I think it is totally OK to put up some new training goals &#038; maybe even some personal goals! For Rizzo: get sit on cue (long story &#038; next post!), focus on utility training &#8211; go outs, articles, directed retrieve, moving stand, directed jumping &#038; [...]]]></description>
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