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I fear my whole cyber RC class will be spent just attempting to transfer Stel from food to toys for fast running on the flat plank... the last two days she hasn't wanted anything to do with the backyard because suddenly it is fly season and she is once again fullblown terrified of the teeny tiny things.
I did make a rabbit-skin-ball toy she was interested in... put it on westcoast Dawn's pulley-leash-prey idea... but oh man, couldn't get it to move fast enough and ended up just plain tossing it which worked better... but by the time I figured that out a fly had sent her fleeing to the back door. (sorry no video of the pulley thing...) It didn't make sense to try to get her to play on the plank while she was so fly stressed... (you'd think flies were the size of dinosaurs or something) tho I did try a little
Something that might work in the future is what I did some of today... I usually take a couple of different toys to the park in the morning because I never know what is going to strike her fancy, be Toy Of Choice. And this morning it was the blue-balloon-dog-squeaky-toy, all the dogs were coveting it today so it came home in my pocket with extra value and I thought I'd go immediately out in back and try it on the plank right away, while it was still THE HOT ITEM... and I did get some good running for it. Problem is I don't know how to "jackpot" with this toy. Other toys I can tug with, but not this one it will rip. So there's no way to convey to her when she's been brilliant other than my voice and affection and I'm not sure its enough. She needs to really know clearly when she's nailed the plank.
I did make a rabbit-skin-ball toy she was interested in... put it on westcoast Dawn's pulley-leash-prey idea... but oh man, couldn't get it to move fast enough and ended up just plain tossing it which worked better... but by the time I figured that out a fly had sent her fleeing to the back door. (sorry no video of the pulley thing...) It didn't make sense to try to get her to play on the plank while she was so fly stressed... (you'd think flies were the size of dinosaurs or something) tho I did try a little
Something that might work in the future is what I did some of today... I usually take a couple of different toys to the park in the morning because I never know what is going to strike her fancy, be Toy Of Choice. And this morning it was the blue-balloon-dog-squeaky-toy, all the dogs were coveting it today so it came home in my pocket with extra value and I thought I'd go immediately out in back and try it on the plank right away, while it was still THE HOT ITEM... and I did get some good running for it. Problem is I don't know how to "jackpot" with this toy. Other toys I can tug with, but not this one it will rip. So there's no way to convey to her when she's been brilliant other than my voice and affection and I'm not sure its enough. She needs to really know clearly when she's nailed the plank.