tonight, I put Roper on the last cleat of the aframe side of the trainer and encouraged him to get into his 2o2o position. I first rewarded any movement to the ground and stopping 2o2o. Then, when I saw that he was hopping down to the ground and keeping his back feet on the cleat (which makes him practically stand on his head!), and not touching the a frame with his front feet below the cleat, I only rewarded if he put his front feet in the space below the last cleat. That encourages him (hopefully) to move down further and not stand on his head. We'll be at this stage for a while, because his preference is to launch off the a frame. I put a harness on him, which makes it easier to pick him up and hold him in place. I've also been tossing treats and making him stay 2o2o until I say okay. We do the okay game with chasing and tugging as well. His stay is still pretty awful, but I can get about 5 feet away, and move around a little bit, as long as I'm facing him. He's also getting the general wait until I say it's okay to go in (I use my foot in a sweeping motion behind me to clear dogs back) in the morning.

It's been light enough to pick up the yard in the morning while the dogs are out. Probably won't last, but hey, make/pick up poop while the sun shines!

Everyone else has been behaving themselves, getting along. I found a double wide baby gate that with my other gate, effectively keeps all the dogs separated while chewing on something. And I can go to the bathroom without having to undo a gate. Pretty spiffy.

I've been measuring Mayzie, just with a yard stick and the refrigerator, and she has been over 21" a couple of times, but it's not very accurate. Really hard to say what she'll measure at when we get to Elma, but I'm hoping for 21". I've been practicing at 22" in class and league, but the one jump stuff I've been doing inside is at 26". Probably need to do some grid work at 26" sometime soon. ML