#jasper training

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So I was trying to get an alert on camera, I got myself crying but I didn’t expect him to do a take-down. But I’m happy with that! I have break him of this habit of sticking his butt up in the air when he does dpt lol. 

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Last night I ran into walmart with Jasper to get a new phone, I shattered my other one. 

I was in the phone section crouched down with Jasper beside me in a sit, it was super obvious I was reading phone specs etc. 

Jasper looks sideways and I glance to see what he’s staring at, and these two people are just standing there staring at me. I move him closer, figuring I’m in their way or something and keep doing my thing, and they stand there staring and finally the woman says “OH a doooooooog!” 

I stand up and have a conversation with them to satisfy them, but man did that throw me off. It really set off my paranoia so I kinda booked it out of the store as soon as I paid, but I didn’t have a panic attack with Jasper there. I’m very happy with that, since I was already kind of panicking when I left for the store (stores are stressful for me). 

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Almost dog attack 5/4/18

I met up with my friend Jennie with Titan. We did the mall, and everything was awesome until we hit the apple store. There was another team there with her dog under the chair, a chocolate lab in a program vest. The dog didn't see us at first, we surprised him. As soon as that dog made eye contact with ours, he lunged and sounded terrifying. The handler got him back into a down stay and said in passing that he had been attacked a couple years ago. The dog stayed in his down and didn't bark again. I'm so glad I had Jasper's camera on him, if the dog had gotten loose and bitten Jasper. I would have gotten in between any dog trying to bite my dog, but there's the chance a dog is faster than me. It's such a gray situation, there's so many variables that make it so we can't really judge the handler of the chocolate lab. Were one of our dogs a breed that attacked him? How long have they been working on this issue? Did she know he'd react like that? Is she advised by her program's trainers? Did two dogs surprising him throw him over his threshold? Did she know two dogs would throw him over his threshold?

The fact he recovered quickly and didn't break his down stay shows two dogs being in a store with him wouldn't make him react if not surprised. I think we just caught an unfortunate moment in a long line of progress.

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Went to the mall, mom filmed us without our knowledge and I’m super proud of how it turned out lol, she kicked a bottle on accident on camera so she got his response to that. 

We hit up the food court for the first time and he whined once, so the food court is definitely something we gotta work on. 

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we worked on doin tasks in vest today, Jasper did really good! He’s not a fan of sitting suddenly, but I made sure the vest wasn’t too tight in places so idk, we worked on sitting and standing for a bit before we tried DPT. Sorry for the bad pics, I used my phone ^^; 

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Deep pressure therapy gifs! 

Also in case you were wondering what that delicious treat he had to have was, kibble. It was just kibble dude.  

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Jasper and some deep pressure therapy!!

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An update! Sorry for the phone pics, I really need to invest in a camera. 

Got Jasper a toy that sticks to the wall and holds treats thanks to @jodran2005‘s recommendation, and the new grooming table too! 

Jasper is weirdly dogshaped now. 

Got Jasper some Rex Specs and took the lenses out thanks to the advice of a friend on discord, he likes them a lot better without the lense. Hoping to get used to the sunglasses lense before summer! I’d really like for him to be able to stick his head out the window.