Merlin am I have gone through some BIG changes in the last few months!
First, I started taking him to work in the greenhouses. He was an excellent gardening companion:
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We finished moving into a new house just as school started and I began teaching. I was definitely more stressed by the move than this nugget:
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Flower power, baby
We’re still settling into the swing of things. Merlin’s been coming to school with me at the end of the day and the students love him. He’s been really patient about receiving scritches from strangers (though I make sure to have everyone “ask” with a finger waggle to demo good start-button reinforcement training techniques). He’s a good guy.
Current training focus is object retrieval. He’s more than happy to toss a block in the air until it just
happens to land where I want it to. Hopefully he discovers the merits of Occam's Razor and learns to pick it up and hold it…