{"id":282,"date":"2019-12-10T01:08:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2019-12-10T01:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:20:41","slug":"casper-day-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/post\/casper-day-2-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Day 2 &#038; 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Casper Day 2 <\/strong><br>Building trust one step at a time. He came right up to me first thing and bumped his nose to my hand in a clear Mutual Greeting! Lots of Mirroring &#8211; I filled what he did, where he went and in turn he followed me too. He met my dogs &#8211; all is well with that. Did I mention this guy is amazing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2fjhNTybgA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Casper Day 3<\/strong><br>This time Casper met my cat and revisited the dogs. We started off with just uncovering his hay. I went out several hours later and gave him his morning meal, with cut pieces of carrots and I brought a jolly ball. We started off clicker treating &#8211; touch the ball and get a carrot. The reasoning is &#8211; to play with me &#8211; get close to his face, take a treat from my hand. He is so polite&#8230; More play, More mirroring&#8230; I asked several times if he would allow me to remove his halter. No&#8230;<br>This evening I took him a bucket of water, and asked to remove his halter. He stood still, looked left, looked right, looked left and stood there, I touched the halter, he was uncertain, but I touched the strap, he stood still, I undid the strap and took the halter off&#8230; No treats, No Coercion, No Compliance &#8211; just trust&#8230; Magical&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2eBnOV8I3io\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casper Day 2 Building trust one step at a time. He came right up to me first thing and bumped his nose to my hand in a clear Mutual Greeting! Lots of Mirroring &#8211; I filled what he did, where he went and in turn he followed me too. He met my dogs &#8211; all is well with that. Did I mention this guy is amazing? Casper Day 3This time Casper met my cat and revisited the dogs. We started off with just uncovering his hay. I went out several hours later and gave him his morning meal, with cut pieces of carrots and I brought a jolly ball. We started off clicker treating &#8211; touch the ball and get a carrot. The reasoning is &#8211; to play with me &#8211; get close to his face, take a treat from my hand. He is so polite&#8230; More play, More mirroring&#8230; I asked several times if he would allow me to remove his halter. No&#8230;This evening I took him a bucket of water, and asked to remove his halter. He stood still, looked left, looked right, looked left and stood there, I touched the halter, he was uncertain, but I touched the strap, he stood still, I undid the strap and took the halter off&#8230; No treats, No Coercion, No Compliance &#8211; just trust&#8230; Magical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12,4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greatergoodpoints.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}