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That session i was just looking for her to run through looking forward..Next session, I Will concentrate on marking rear feet hits.
A little backing up, novel exciting , rear cross work and Folding it in. With folding it in– only 1 blind cross and I was so late. Next time- front crosses and blind crosses
I’m going to train again later today but we did a short session this morning to work on rear crosses. I could not get her to drive forward.
Me, I’m the problem. I started out with cheese in my hand but even after I put it away—–
Suggestions?Markers-
food from hand – snack
thrown or placed food- search
multiples of thrown food- scatter
toy from hand- take
thrown or placed toy – get it> Was the toy out there on that side too? If so, it might be that the food value was higher and she knew you had food. Or, the get it was late. Or the toy was too far. Or all of the above LOL! You can help her<
I think it was a combo – knew there was food, toy out too far. When I used the verbal before she went in the tunnel and let go, she was turning back towards me. On our second session, I used the verbal before and she had it.
From a prior comment about my verbals–
nice or good is encouragement only
yes is food to mouth or toy to mouth
get it means go away from me and get the toy or food. but I also use search for thrown food. Im trying to clean that up.
old habits die hard because it is ingrained in me to say yes to mark behavior. I tend to say yes and then get it when I throw toy or food.Rain expected for the next several days- we did a few short sessions of training. Counterpoint went really well,but no video. Rear cross– she consistently turned incorrectly no matter the side she was on .
Yesterday, I let everyone play together.Did afew things with Audubon and Roulez and then took them inside. It satisfied my need to spend time with them all together and then training individually.
We worked tunnels and lap turns. I feel like I am cheating because my puppy came with tunnel performance installed. Hahaha!
Technical fail- had a great session of tunnels, but camera had fallen. After a break, we went back and did angles. Interestingly, when she went in tunnel with her on my left ,she came out of the tunnel curving back to me.We will work on that
Not my best work. 1st session of Strike a pose ,my feet were wrong. 2nd session– Too much sideline interference. In my defense, it was such a nice night and short amount of time before dark. Felt bad about leaving the others in. Esp Roulez. I did go put Audubon in the house after his second offense.
Then lap turn– my mechanics were off Home this weekend so have time to work on these and other lessons.
oh! and i realized something else when I was training yesterday. My dogs default to thinking cookies have been thrown if I use the same command “get it” as I do for toys. I created marker confusion yesterday by saying get it for both food and toys. My marker for thrown food is search (single) or scatter (multiple).I started making the change with Audubon but still find myself inconsistent at times
“and I will tell you that I relate 10000% I have a lot of “oops wrong name” moments”
😂yea, they both went to an indoor agility trial at the end of July- so 6 weeks would track for Audubon. Saz got bordatella vaccine June 25. and 🤞, I would think Roulez would be showing symptoms by now. She and Saz are mostly separated (trying to prevent them getting the zoomies together) but Audubon and Roulez lay close together in the evenings.
staying still is HARD😂
Thanks!
our work from yesterday. 1st session on turn and burn, she had difficulty sending around the barrel to the right. Stopped and then tried again in afternoon, VOILA! puppy brains! and latent learning in action
Also she and Audubon have some sort of respiratory virus. We are all puzzled because we haven’t been anywhere in several months. She started to vough and was a little punky when we got to the blind, pivot, send. I shortened distance which made hard for my timing of blind and then we stopped.
Leaving for Cincinnati Sunday and praying Roulez doesn’t pick it up. Getting the 2nd of 2 immunotherapy injections Monday.
Do we have a week break in this class?Took off a day from “training” yesterday and threw bumpers. I had 2- threw one, once she was on her way back to me, turned and jogged the other way , threw the 2nd bumper once she got back to me. did this a few times. once ahe was running back to me, started waiting for her to come to me. Sometimes she came straight back and Sometimes a wide circle. I stood still when she did the circle and waited for her to come to me..we celebrated when she came to hand.
I have observed this before –better about coming to me with bumper than with fluffy toy
The retrieve needs serious help. But to be honest, between the heat and Roulez and Tchoup, I’ve had trouble getting motivated and the energy enough to work on it. Hopefully, we will have some cooler temps soon.
