[flyballmom]

Originally Posted by lblax

hows she doing in the bite work??? usually thats the stumbling block when starting an older dog.

Oops. I guess YouTube videos are a no-no. I posted a couple of her working but they're gone now. Bitework was the issue, yes. A few months ago she started coming off the sleeve every time the helper stopped moving...or when she "thought" the helper was going to stop moving. She was only doing this with our "real" helper, not the young assistant or the guys we work with locally. Concensus said she was thinking too much and trying to hard to please him (we track with him and she's been allowed to shmooze...bad idea I now know) so we started working her only on a long line and applying back pressure every time she was given a bite. She seems to have gotten the idea that the way to please him is to stay on the sleeve (and she's taken SchH3 type stick hits and drives so at least that's not a problem)...we took the line off 2 weeks ago and so far so good!