Lily's Quarterly Training Goals

Working from the TL: Steps to Success and TL: Steps to Service
The behaviors listed below AND necessary Comebefores


Public: when able, somewhere daily, either working, a short training session or "dog time"

• Laddering Distractions
• L 1-3 in public places: Orange Ave/ Dog Beach/ Base/ Ferry Landing/ Buddy
• CGC meet and greet behaviors; meet and don't greet SD behaviors
• laddering threshold

SD Behaviors: incorporate immediate previous Step or Comebefores

• Get the Light:
• Use (w/stool)
• training this at night whenever possible so Lily can SEE when the light goes on or off
• C&L getting Lily volunteering, uncued, to pass the Call Box to Get the Light
• Comebefore: Build up Paws Up with controlled duration
• PB on trees, then PB on fence, then PB on walls 
• Emergency Phone Retrieve:
• Work
• by the handle only
• adding distance
• bedroom
• bathroom
• OOS of door
• bed
• stairs to landing
• other side of 2nd floor
• then downstairs/upstairs
• then outside/inside/upstairs
• Alerting Behavior
• Teach
• modified training plan
• return to Step 1 (targeting the clothing at my waist)
• standing and seated
• any clothing worn
• wherever
• build to Twofers 
• harder touch
• Distance: Level 7 (Steps to Service)
• Review
• add carry leash to Lily's Emergency Public Response behavior
• in addition to standing beside or circling around my prone, inert or quiet body
• Distance: Level 7 teaches the dog to pick up and carry her leash
• Review, Remind, Reteach Retrieve w/leash from beginning
• train w/EPR
• placement of hold
• Target: Level 6 (Steps to Service)
• Teach
• bracing and pulling for mobility assistance
• using 2 new harness/vests
• Emergency Call Box
• review weekly; all locations

Levels Training: incorporate immediate previous Step or Comebefores

• Communication: Level 3 S5 (NL)
• Teach
• lifting a paw to ask for something
• generalize; use
• Comebefores: L 3
• Focus: Level 4 S3 (NL)
• Teach
• work Splits

• Target: Level 5 (Steps to Service)
• Review
• verbal cue? leash/hand only? from both sides

CRO: Level II 
(@Marina/ parking lots: Tidelands/ Base/ Balboa Park)

• moving transitions
• jump to retrieve and return to tuck or side
• figure 8 over jump
• Go By, Away
• send out to a target; down or sit; return to tuck or side
• There; There/Down; There/Sit