27/11/2025
If you know about ‘proofing’ behaviour, you will love this.
We often start teaching new behaviours, out of the context in which they are an issue, and with no distractions.
The Mat Training in this case is actually for barking and jumping whilst waiting to go down the stairs.
So we took it out of the stairs context and put it in what we thought was a low distraction area.
INCOMING 😹
Phoebe’s focus on the task was incredible, we had only been doing it for about 30 seconds 😂
Floor mats are due to be put down as the slippy slidy floors can have a number of impacts on animals( that is for another post !)
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