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I had trouble getting her to stay behind me to line up between my legs.
Weaving thru legs is a trick she likes..and offeredAs the Saturday wore on, the behavior fell apart. Not surprising given the reinforcement history. The barking and dancing increased without her offering or performing a lineup. So Sunday, I went back to letting her settle and leave. Question. She is moving from a sit to a down when she was lining up and then into a play bow as I moved away. Thoughts? Should I change to asking for a down instead?
and our work this morning:
Carrie
I guess you are right. It wasn’t as smooth as I wanted but your observations has me looking at it differently. We are showing the next 2 weekends (trying to get a few shows in before she comes in season and is bred.) I WILL bring our instant focus object next time. There is only one class I can FEO next weekend and will make the most of it.
If I’m asking her to line up and she stares and barks at me, how would you handle that? Say in a FEO run??
Since my lineup is a work in progress, for “real” runs, should I stick to my present lineup or ask for my new one?We did a little work on Cookie free game and Pattern games with toys
oohh was hoping to catch you before you answered. We are entered in FAST tomorrow… should I show FEO to work on leash and Off leash engagment
I’m at a show… but I forgot my instant focus object.😬 Shape another one tonight or …?
Did work off leash engagement and line up with cookies at practice jump and then near the ring. She did well in both situations. Tomorrow, I will get video.
Jamie had Fever in the pool. I released Roulez from expen. Her focus object on the ground close to expen, not quite in view of pool and fence between us, cheese in my hands. She ran to fence barking, I stayed where I was and said nothing. After a few seconds she ran back to me, made eye contact and rewarded her. She stayed next to me but would look in direction of pool and back at me. She did this a couple of times. She then gave her focus to object and we interacted and rewarded – 10x? – then put her back in expen.
Next Fever pool time. Took her out of expen on leash and moved to fence, in view of pool and Fever swimming. Only asked for on leash and then off leash engagement with food in hand. She had to work through her arousal to be able to focus. it didn’t take her long to get what was supposed to happen.
3rd session- No Fever in pool. Lineups and release to pool. Started out with food in hand and made the mistake of moving too quickly to food in pocket so had some frustration on her part.
Ya know, I worked Spirit’s startlines and weaves with the pool as distraction and reward. It worked great for her. When I tried the same way with Roulez, I got so much frustration barking, I didn’t know how to move forward so stopped trying. Fingers crossed that adding these steps, I might have more success!
didn’t video but placed tennis balls and water toy around our focus object. She did well except.. After a few food rewards, She started barking at me. Most of the time when we train with food, we do a few reps and then break off the session with a toy reward. She much prefers toys – has been known to spit out food when highly aroused and we have been switching back and forth between types of rewards. Thoughts?
also, I feel like I should be leashing and unleashing for every rep ?
Hmmm her kryptonite. Guess for her it would be what sets her arousal higher? Because she is focused.. just hyperaroused.
Walking through the ring gates
Taking off her leash in the ring
Watching Jamie run one of her dogs
In training- ill timed reward – becomes frustrated and Barking when training new skill
