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Oh my! I am not progressing as I had hoped. This video is, I think, a dramatic improvement in the head turn exercise. Let me know what you think. These are reps that I think went well.
Thanks,
BarbHi again,
Casper had had a LOT of training when I read your reply. I don’t want to fail to understand, so, I tried it with Enzo: https://youtu.be/Jvxo2MJ07e8
At the time, I felt like I was doing a pretty good job but now, looking at the video, I’m not sure. And it would really be nice to teach this to Enzo as well as Casper. I understand the logical meaning of your comment:
“The main thing with this exercise is to be hyper-clear with the mechanics…”
but that isn’t the same as applying the mechanics correctly in real life.Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I am falling further and further behind but that is “oh well”. We’ll catch up at some point or we won’t. <grin>
One thing we are teaching that I would like to understand and teach competently is the head-turn for jumping. Enzo does not do this at all; I wish he did. I really think it would help Casper. (I will try the re-teach on Enzo, also.)
This video is essentially the whole session; it didn’t go very well but I’m hoping you can point to places where I was closer to doing it right…
For your info: this is about the longest he will work for food in a challenging environment. Jen was teaching class in the other half of the room. I pulled out a toy for some other stuff but I thought food would be a better modality for this exercise.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
We did a little work on the blind and wrap today. Well, we also did some other stuff but that was just keeping our hand in.
…so far behind…Thanks!
BarbHi Tracy,
One more stupid thing: how do you teach your dogs to bark on cue? Enzo does it and so have most of the previous dogs but I only remember how I taught a couple of them and it wasn’t necessarily transferable.
– The Springer barked when the doorbell rang. So I opened the front door, trapping her inside with my body. Then I rang the bell, she barked, click/treat. That worked well and pretty fast.
– I think at least one of the Belgians was taught by taking advantage of excitement barking during the “bite me” game.
– I honestly cannot remember how I taught Enzo.
Any ideas appreciated.
BarbHI again!
Yes – tomorrow is Casper’s first birthday!
I wasn’t sure if I would find time to edit this part, so I didn’t foreshadow it. At any rate, this starts with my “favorite”: toy races. Happily, he blasts out and I am lost in the dust immediately. I am really happy about how this is going, since he has been all about the “party for one” until recently. I have been having great success with the two toy game and now, sometimes, he comes back almost straight. This also shows a totally amazing time when I throw the ring, he runs off and comes right back to play. HUGE PROGRESS!!
(The dreadful squeaky bark in the background is, alas, Enzo.)
We then played a bit of “any toy/any time”. Hmmmmmmm That is when I discovered that the weird round rubber thing is the best toy, by far. Alas, if I am not careful, it is very easy for him to bite me as he runs in to grab it. As you can see, he is pretty willing to tug with anything but he isn’t willing to bring back just anything. In the beginning, he brought back the crocheted flippy flyer but later on, no go. I got him playing with the sock monkey but then he wouldn’t bring it back. I waited almost 3 minutes before giving up. Then I threw the ring toy and he brought it back. THEN I tried to get him to play with the flyer again. It was hard to get him to tug firmly but no-go on the retrieve.
Merry Christmas!
BarbHi Tracy,
Well, we trekked through the “blizzard” from the house to the pole barn (maybe 100 – 200 feet). Because it was so cold and yucky, although not really a blizzard, I brought both dogs. This was not my brightest idea. While I envy Susan Garrett, Ann Braue and others who can train one dog while another one waits patiently, I do not envy the amount of time and attention to detail that this training requires. So, while Enzo trained Casper screamed; didn’t bother Enzo at all. But when Casper trained, Enzo made noise that rattled him. So this is probably not Casper’s best.First is a review of “go to the target (hat)”. You can tell where Enzo is because Casper keeps orienting toward him. <sigh> Then I tried the parallel path work. After a little bit, I thought it looked pretty good. I moved it over to try for a RC but
(1) He isn’t as strong on the hat as he needs to be
(2) He isn’t going straight enough.
I did a bit of “you go that way and I’ll go this way”. That worked better than the RC. (I did see the option of doing it by the wall but I think we need more parallel path work before giving up on doing it the hat way.)
Barb
Hi Tracy,
I am finding that it is a challenge to find training time but the bigger challenge is getting my videos ready. Alas, I am going to just skip ahead instead of working through 2-3 weeks of unedited videos. However, today, you mentioned going one way while your dog goes the other and I couldn’t resist sharing this picture of Patt. I don’t know how to up-load a picture, so this is a 1 second video.
Now I’m off to train and video and, hopefully, find time to edit and update you!
Barb
Hi Tracy
It is way easier to find time to train than time to prepare videos! This is from Tuesday…
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Yeah, I wasn’t happy with using “Go” but I don’t love being without a command in these kind of circumstances. <grin>
This video shows backing up and turn’n’burn. The backing up cracks me up, because he had already learned to back up to a thing. After I did the training, I watched the video. We can go back to only a step or two and include the wobble board.
I was killing time before my training partners came, so I only got the one direction on turn’n’burn.
Barb
Hi Tracy,
This video is trying to catch up most of week 2, since week 3 has already dropped. He was surprisingly good with trading one toy for another (almost identical) toy. Happy to see him do it.
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I think raising the plank will be pretty easy. I will try your ideas about the toy retrieve. Not as easy! <grin>
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
I didn’t see your feedback and I was at HHDS today. I had access to an actual DW plank, so I used it. I think he is looking better on that – was getting or almost getting the turns.
The toy races/recall is a different story. It is not my favorite exercise but I saw how nicely your Whippet was retrieving and got jealous. Anyway, please take a look and advise. I will say that, although he ran off twice he did not (a) go bother the class which was running in the adjacent ring nor (b) did he go off and play keep away or “party-for-one” for a long time. I cut it out of the video but it was 22 seconds and 17 seconds. Actually an improvement but I think you will have some advice. <grin>
Thanks,
BarbHi Tracy,
Not a tracking harness, per se, just one I had around. Probably bought it for Dog Parkour since it has a handle on the top and that is a requirement. (Enzo got the first level title and then I lost interest: www. dogparkour. org/ ).
Anyway, I did some wobble stuff and walking on a plank.
The wobble part is a bit choppy – I cut out the play sessions and moved quickly from lots of towels to no towels. The only reason he would consider the “no towels” was because I had the very best treats (liver brownies). This is his second session but the first one on this particular wobble board. The other one was too scary. As you can see, he will play tug on it, also. However, I think he is signaling that we will be very slow and careful introducing the teeter.
As far as the plank, Casper has done some work on planks already. My goal is for him to turn both ways without touching the floor. [Enzo has to do this a lot on the DW, so I know it’s important!] Again, I chopped it up a bit to show the best parts. He can almost do it turning to his right. Left, is coming along.
Thanks,
Barb
