As I wrote about last week, Chewie and I have started to work on stay. Currently, Chewie can stay on her platform while I walk about ten feet away. I am expanding this behavior by adding more distance. We are also increasing the duration of time that I can wait when I walk away. Here’s […]
Chewie and I have started to work on a new behavior — stay! It’s pretty darn hot right now. Stay is a good behavior to practice because it doesn’t involve a whole lot of movement, and we can do our sessions in the shade of the barn. I’m using Chewie’s big platform for our stay […]
Recently, Chewie and I have been doing some training with a new platform. I’m hoping we can use this platform as a location for some veterinary training. It also will come in handy for horse agility and groundwork exercises. Chewie is awfully cute when she stands on the platform and looks at me with her ears […]
Occasionally when I am at the barn, I realize that I have forgotten something that is still in the tack room. Apollo, of course, can’t come in the tack room with me. Until recently, I have had two options for what I can do in this situation. Option 1: I can give him some feed […]
Last week we had a woman come and give several lectures to our department about behavior analysis and autism. She helps run a large treatment center in Georgia for children with autism. The two lectures she gave in the morning were pretty interesting. In the afternoon, we had a handful of presentations so that some […]
