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Jennifer Chiodo says:

Estaban, thanks so much for the feedback. You provided several super-helpful insights. Luna has a tendency to stick on her start line which was why I did the running start. It’s actually rare to have her get ahead of me. It’s a good problem to have and I appreciate your strategy suggestions there.

Luna has zero drive for her dinner. I can video her, but it looks like slowly wandering towards it then waiting near her bowl. She’s never had intentional negative reinforcement for her dinner, but I think that some members of the family, have, in the past, put food from the grill that was too hot in her bowl…. I now manually check the food temp in the bowls before I put them out.
I’ll try to create a higher drive reward, my husband eating a sandwich is probably it; for weave pole training. I don’t have channel weaves at home. Can I set it up using my two six pole weaves side by side? Is there a video or podcast on that?

“Good” is not a reward marker for me, it’s an ‘I like what you are doing and keep going’ marker. However, I like your idea of dropping it and just using ‘go’ for the weaves, I’ll transition to that. I didn’t realize I added ‘girl’ at the trial.

I also appreciate the ignore and wait suggestion. I can start using that tomorrow in class.

I was embarrassed to send my video given our elementary level and am very grateful for the detail, thought and support in your narrative and drawings.