so what is ruff love?

And then it hit me.... revelation... ruff love is not about not going to pooch park and not letting pup socialize with other dogs, it is about making me DaMama in the pooch park as well, part of the pack, team leader of pooch park experience... Ruff love is about going to pooch park but not standing there chatting with buddies or checking your iphone but running with your dog, playing games, making sure that you still The cookie of the day to puppy....

so we started puppy peaks

 It is really not a course but I am treating it as such. Played games with both boys yesterday and today. Today game was about several tugs .... I start playing with one tug  and pup is going, next I am switching to see which choice pup will do- choose to play by himself or join DaMama. Now who is going to guess which one played with DaMama and which one carried toy all on his own...

 Leo was all about Da Mama when tugging although after we were done and I left pile on the table he took his favorite tug to play himlsef/ note to self put it in the drawer/ but my oldest  Che was giving me lots of DWDH/ don't wanna don't hafta/ once he got a toy in his mouth.

 Now to decide who is the King of this house...

Leash reactivity is gone

Yep, just like that. I have my happy well behaved, confident puppy back.
What has worked-
 behavioral obedience classes where Leo learned that he does have a choice to have different response to stimuli
 Crate Games- introduced all kinds of distraction in a playful manner which allowed Leo to build confidence and good choices
 Autocheck in
meditation- firmly placed in my mind picture of my puppy being the friendliest dog on earth, it did traveled down the leash....

memorable weekend

well, memorable it was  but not in a good way...
 I am feeling very discouraged. We had similar situation 6 months ago at another trial. We spent tons of time on training, classes with great trainers, redoing foundation, getting better recall with SG online class.... and as a result one run out of 6 was semi close to what Che normally runs in his classes...  so his feedback to me was he is deeply not ready to handle trials and I am lousy trainer...
 Where do I go from there? How can I identify what that I did that contributed to  this stress and what I have not done  to help it. Sure I can continue to do what I have been doing but it appear to be ineffective...
 And should I even ask my dog to do it if he is so stressed during trials... maybe he is not meant to be an agility dog?

Re: WC UKC trial

actually what I realized that second time I did just about exactly our routine from class- sitting in the chair, pup is settling, few look at me, touch target, Its Your choice control games played while pup in near my legs... Che was similar to class situation- goof in the run was my own, particle of food was  near the box and Che came out of it to pick it up and I decided to not force the issue and rather have a run together than attempt to finish one obstacle.
 We will see tomorrow if the said remains true- if I repeat our class routine will he have zoomies?

WC UKC trial

We had trial at our training place today. Che is used to more complicated courses although we rarely get full field course, mostly just half. Anyway first run- total goof. I attempted to do transitions went for jog and potty outside about 10 dogs ahead of us, then about 5 dogs I did  watch me, RZ, RR, 360 RZ, hand touches, GOMS with some food, pretty much stationary games but with little moving.  Che was eager, happy. When we came to start line Che started looking around, looking for DH... caught his attention by CG, Look at me and off we went, unfortunately he took 2 jumps and went running around. It did look like he was stressed, he was barely recallable but eventually we managed to do most of the course.
 Second run- , happened about half hour later, I kept Che in the crate, played CG stage1-1b, took him out about 5 dogs ahead, then " settle" GOMS, IYC,  I was sitting in the chair so everything was in place.  Che started run very relaxed, kept up with me, picked up speed as we run. We were almost flawless except I made goofy mistake at the box so I think we still NQ.  56 sec course so I am not talking about speed. But my goal was met at this run- I got Che run with me during trial.  It was our 3rd trial. First one was about the same a year ago and second was absolute disaster at different facility 6 month ago.  Grrr, I am missing something significant there....

Ruff Luv by Susan Garrett - book review

Not the high production value that Susan Garret turned out later on. This book looks home produced.

The mantra "Permissiveness is not positive" is good line for the book. You have to be consistent . You take away all play with other dogs until appropriate behavior is learned.

The book is definitely for DOGs that are highly trained and live with other dogs. You also need to have full cooperation with other family members.
I love Susan Garrett's webinars and was expecting more from the book.