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Backside Slice – 2/7/24
This was before dinner. I was tossing a treat to help her release the toy but she happily switched back to the toy for the reward! She is also tugging some in the mornings before breakfast and doing an easy trick for the tug outside of a training session.I think it’s mostly excitement/pay attention to me barking. She does do an alarm bark at times but less so than the high on life chatty barking.
Lateral leadout – 2/6/24
I don’t think she has much of a difference with toy play before or after dinner. It seems to be more that there’s a better chance of her working for a toy if it’s not in the morning (whether before or after breakfast). This session was over lunch. I was trading out the toy for a treat to keep her happier with relinquishing the toy and then sitting. This did seem easier for her when I was only lateral and not also moving forward. She tugged like a fiend after this too. I’ve also gotten a short session or two each day of her tugging and doing tricks. I’ve left the morning session as some trick training for treats until I see signs that her pop rocks are less likely to explode. Her new thing is generally being barky about stuff in particular: staring at herself in the oven door, during meal prep, and moving from her crate back to the kitchen after a meal, especially breakfast. So far I’m mostly managing it with interrupting the oven staring and having her recall to me or do a spin around me for walking from her crate to the kitchen. My reasoning is that it’s best to find something that helps stop her from repeating the behavior until she hopefully grows up some and this is less of a thing.Minny Pinny – 2/5/24
I wanted something that had been relatively easy for her after the excitement of the MAC UKI trial. (we did pattern games and a few wing wraps for food at the trial plus had 2 play dates but I didn’t have a ton of time while scoring and running a friend’s Beardie in 4 classes plus running Kaladin). She got to run around in the backyard with Kaladin over lunch and then she was gung ho to play with toys after dinner so we used a fur tug for this session in the basement. Unfortunately I didn’t hit record (I think my finger missed as I went by) so you didn’t get to see her first 4 reps (2 each direction with an easier time going to the left). So here’s take two.
Lateral Leadout – 2/1/24
Worked for a toy before dinner! She wasn’t keen on lining up after releasing the toy so I went to cheese for her to drop the toy and make the sit a happier thing and she even shifted back to the toy after the wrap!
Barrel Wrap- 2/1/24
Took a short break and then she did some Barrel wrapping for the toy!
Perch Pivot – 2/2/24
Caffeine inspired brilliance for the win. This is the microwaveable snugglesafe pad. Cover can shift a bit but it’s generally decent traction. At first it was so low she was going over it but then she figured it out and is pivoting more. She also played with a toy after this and this was all in the morning!
MAC UKI trial this weekend and I’m the show manager so staying overnight closer to On the Rjn.
I think caffeine inspired briliance is probably right about the perch. I’ll look around. I have a food dish that is lower and might work but the surface isn’t as nice as the Fleet Farm rubber horse bucket I have here (and they don’t come lower). She spends a lot of time on her hind end while jumping on Kaladin’s head when playing so I didn’t think about the issue of her weight being back and making it harder to move.
And I checked my notes – those threadle slice sessions from Tuesday were the first time I added the verbal come cue and only the 2nd time since the live session that we did a threadle slice at all – so it is very new and a bit confusing for her.
Threadle Slice – 1/30/24
Did 2 sessions (AM & PM) of threadle slices yesterday. Volume dial works better when your jump wing isn’t in play! She did play tug after each session up a half flight of stairs in the family room, but was a bit sticky about retrieving the toy because she wanted to sit and chew it a bit. Then worked through it and did a few easy tricks for her toy.
AM – https://youtu.be/898EI5voRB4?si=EREJoUl2WndYMnTj
PM – https://youtu.be/gt3FG5m_Jjg?si=QFR1OXqDzhRBthEYAnd today we re-visted the Perch Pivot
I think I was using a bit of arm on the decel because she was hesitating coming into the bump when I stood at the wing.
So after I said she was meh about balls, she proceeded to play with a racquetball this morning but it was mainly becauase she and Kaladin were passing it back and forth. I’ll have to see what she does with it if she is amped up and not looking like she’ll tug. When the pop rocks are going off in her brain and I toss a tug she barely looks at it but keeps jumping up at me so I might get that.Tunnel Threadle – 1/28/24
I had done 2 short sessions at home in the last few weeks but the small space makes it hard to collect her from the PT without having her go back in the tunnel on the way back and she had big feelings about the collar holding. So tried it at Fusion with more space and using a sit instead of holding her collar. Not on this video but she went in and popped out again the first time so I straightened the tunnel more (it was barely curved before but it is a dark one) It looks like something sunk in from the home sessions as she flipped her head away on the verbal cue. (sorry about the camera angle – you’ll just have to imagine her in a sit looking at me and then at the tunnel) I did have to use a break cue to get her butt off the ground a few times.
I’ll have to go find my treat hugger and see what she does with it when she is feeling leapy. She’ll play with a raccquetball at home, but it ranks below furry/fleecy things in her book.
Decel – 1/28/24
This was after her break in the car while I trained Kaladin (was able to set up part of the USO Finals course to try different weave entry options – of course they all went much smoother since I hadn’t we running for 180yds or so before it!) I seem to have flunked at selecting the correct zoom level for my videos today! (although you can read my shirt in the middle) The 2nd one I went back to reset because she lay down when I stepped to the side. The others were all nice solid sits. It’s so funny how she drifts wide on the first wrap and then goes, oh right – I remember this game.
Did a Sniffari with her and Kaladin separately in a nearby park we had never been to before. I did have to intervene when Lift picked up a dead mouse leg. Is the reason to take the dog solo so that the focus on their own sniffing and discovery without being influenced by another dog?
She’ll have a quieter training week coming up since I am way over-scheduled with things like the MYOB webinar, massages for the dogs, getting my hair cut & colored and all the secretary stuff for the MAC UKI trial next weekend.
Rocking Horses 3 – Tunnel – 1/27/24
Decided this would be a great one for the larger space at Fusion. This one would be a lot easier if I could toss a toy but she wasn’t interested in tugging any of her toy choices. She was happy to work for cheese though.
RDW Foundations
Realized I hadn’t done this for a month so tried it with the Pet Tutor and then doing a wrap to add more speed. My finger went rogue and clicked her first ever launch over the mat. Whoops! This was after she had 2nd breakfast and a short nap in the car while Kaladin got to do tunnel-weave discriminations.Wing Wrap
I was going to call it quits after the RDW work but had some time left and Lift didn’t seem to be done so we did some fun Turn & Burn with a wing and cheese.She got a sniffy walk with Kaladin after this,took a nap when we got home and got to chase Kaladin around the yard after that.
Serp with Motion- 1/26/24
I haven’t done much with adding a verbal cue to a threadle, but felt like I could try the motion for the serp. She played tug after this on the other side of the futon.
Rocking Horses 3- Tunnel – 1/25/24
This was before dinner. Excited that she worked for a toy and to see her speed up with the higher arousal from it. She even was able to go back to the toy after I tossed a piece of cheese to help get the toy back from her in the middle. Not quite sure how I missed how little space I was giving her to wrap the wing when I shifted it a bit to make it easier out of the tunnel. Whoops! I do have Fusion booked this weekend so am hoping to revisit this one with more space there.
Perch – 1/24/24
She was quite the barky, leaping lemur before breakfast, but settled down quickly to do a few tricks for food with Kaladin in the kitchen. The perch session was at lunch time and after she had run around the yard with Kaladin. She did play tug with me upstairs right after this. I didn’t quite understand your earlier comment about tossing the food to the other side before she stopped pivoting on the perch but then it hit me while watching this that if I tossed it more behind me as she first got to the perch she would probably have to pivot her hind end more to center to leave the perch to get the food so will try that next time.
I was so proud of how far her stay has come along in last night’s Live session since she basically didn’t have one at all when Max Pup started and her sit and down were not at all on cue.
Wing wrap – 1/21/24
Catching up from yesterday. On Sunday it was warm enough that I could take her for a nice sniffy walk on soeme trails and it was still cold enough that no one else was there so she and Kaladin got to have an extended zoomie session across a small field and up and down the trails. She actually worked mostly for toys on Sunday and was brilliant.This was her first time wrapping a wing and she even worked for a toy. (it was at lunch time). Forgot about the turn & burn part but excited she was motivated to wrap the wing for the toy and didnt’ get leapy. After this I tossed the toy for her and she decided she needed to chew on it.
Minny Pinny -1/21/24
This was before dinner. I had the video going before I brought her into the training room so I didn’t have to stop by the tripod to start it. I had planned to use cheese and had it in my pocket, but she tugged in the family room and then down the stairs to the small room outside the training room and into the training room so I decided to see what she did with the toy instead. I also decided I didn’t want to use Haw for left and picked “Say” (Thai for left and sounds like Sigh) Rhymes with my nephew’s name, Ky, but pretty sure it doesn’t sound like any of my other verbals. Got a few reps in each direction and then she said she was done (or at least she was done with me holding her collar to start her)
Wing Wrap – 1/22/24
Cool idea on the Choose your Toy game. Tried that today over lunch today with the “Choose your toy” game and was pretty happy about how it went in terms of her working for the toy (even if she wanted to switch midway since I hadn’t put the other toys up) and in the training room. Had a moment near the end where I had gone on too long and she threw in a leap, but then she went back to the toy and did one more rep so we finished and she got to chew the toy for a bit.
Backside Slice – 1/22/24
Took a few weeks off from this one and tried it tonight. I made sure the barrel wasn’t too close to a cluttered wall and she was like – easy peasy. Even did it from a sit stay. I gave her a toy option at the beginning, and she looked up at the cheese, but didn’t get leapy so we went with it. Should I have used the lala to release her from her sit? I wasn’t sure she knew it enough to feel it was a release so used break.
Flyball Restrained Recalls – 1/20/24
Dean and I have always joked about what is our dog’s brains. It started with Fingal having a marble & a sprocket. Tari had peanuts and then we decided she had noodles (which often fell out of her bowl aka head). Demi has mini doughnuts. Kaladin has mini meatballs and some party hats and confetti. After this weekend I decided that Lift has pop rocks. I really hope she manages to grow out of them soon (or maybe graduate to something like nerds), but right now she just loses it and turns into a barky leaping lemur (usually around toys) when her pop rocks are exploding and shooting out of her ears. And while it’s more likey to happen in the mornings (esp if early) or if she is depleted from other things, sometimes they surprise me by being inert (or stopping their exposions) at times when I don’t give that good odds or by exploding at times when she has given indications that her arousal state is in the right spot to play with toys.
Rented a space on Saturday and was excited to try some games that involved more running but had mixed resuts with the flyball retrieve. Space was new to her so I let her sniff around on leash at first until she started looking at me and then we segued into pattern games. Went well so I tried having her chase a toy but she turned into a barky leaping lemur. Took a break and did the volume dial game. Tried again with a favorite long fluffy toy but she wasn’t interested in grabbing the toy. Then of all things she decided she wanted to play with a frizzer (normally she’s only into frizzers if she can steal them from Kaladin). So got a bit of a flyball style recall first with pushing her back lightly and then tossing a treat.
I popped her back in a crate in the car for a rest while I did some jump grids with Kaladin and then brought her back in to try the rocking horses when we had more space. Asked her if she wanted to play with a toy after when the barrel & cone were put away and she jumped up on me instead. So I let her run around with Kaladin in the space to blow off some steam.
I was thinking about the whole thing on the way home and realized that while she hadn’t been at a trial since the weekend before, she also hadn’t been able to go for walks, play with Kaladin much or chew on bully sticks for 2 weeks due to the cold and her tooth extraction. So guessing all that and the new space was the driving factor in why she was so leapy with the toy.
Crate & Pet Tutor – 1/19/24
Did this before breakfast. Kept toys out of it. I have to say I was just thinking about what a crate games slacker I was with Lift since she doesn’t snap into a sit when I put my hand on the latch so I was so glad to see this game as an alternative. Lift doees have a great send to the crate in the context of meal times (from the kitchen, down the hallway and around the corner to the crates.) and apparently she can turn away from the magic blue dispenser of treats to go in there too.
Also video-ed our lunch session of tricks & toys
Kept the food out of the picture but you will see her look up at the coffee table since she’s used to the treats being up there when we shape in the living room. Took a bit to get her to pick a toy she wanted to play with but then it went well.
