Anyone else have this book? Anyone else doing this with your dog? I picked this up over the weekend and started doing it with Max. So far, i've only taught the first two words in the book, down and sit (the book suggests teaching down first, rather than sit, like is typically taught first).
Anyway, we're enjoying it so far. Max picked up the words pretty fast, and he was able to discriminate between the two without much work. When I put the two together, he only errored once. He does sometimes swipe at the cards, because I taught him to do that before to discriminate between the letters of his name, but when he's not over excited, he does it correctly.
Max also used to jump over the gate to the kitchen repeatedly, almost anytime I went into the kitchen or the bathroom, both on the other side of the gate. It was annoying, because I could never go to the bathroom or cook something without him up my butt. One of my goals with the book was to teach him to read sit, and be able to use that to reduce his jumping over the gate. So far, we're sucessful. He used to jump every time I went to the other side of the gate, today he only jumped twice. I taped a sit card to the gate. About half the time he walks up, reads the card, and sits on his, the other half I am prompting him to read it, but he's doing it. I don't expect it to eliminate the jumping 100% yet, but i'm hopeful that we can get there. And honestly, I really had no other ideas on it, and any reduction of the jumping is great in my opinion.