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Well given the heat indices for this week, walking around and tossing treats sounds like a great use of time.
The hard part for me is determining whether he’s fully engaged or only faking it and prone to get distracted again. He will do the pattern game and quickly turn his head up at me after each treat and then we’ll do some tricks which he does quickly. Then we try something else and he’s off cleaning up mulberries!
Sometimes I can tell because he is mouthy about a tug toy and not really grabbing on, but he doesn’t always act that way when he’s only partially tuned in.Kaladin & Min – Games 3 – Sequences 1&2 – 7/26/21
Got rid of the furthest out jump so I could get the other jumps at the real distances. Cropped it out, but we did the Instant Focus game 2x and he immediately engaged with the cap. Then did a few tricks. He was feeling poky about the wing so started in a sit stay and then promptly lost him to the stupid mulberries right at the tunnel exit. He was so busy scarfing them down, I did block him from them and then did the pattern game. Had mixed results with that until I did it walking back and forth through the edge of the mulberries by the jump. Should I proactively do the pattern game through the mulberry detritus right at the beginning?Min – 7/26/21
I had done these on Sunday with all the jumps set up and shorter distance which felt cramped even with Min. So I decided to do them again with the jumps at 18 or more feet apart.
There’s still a lot of “yes”‘ floating around but the “toss” cue to go get the food on the ground at the end sounds a lot like yes on the video so the “don’t say yes” program is slowly starting to work.Kaldin & Min – Skills 3 – Threadle Wrap with Motion – 7/26/21
Moved to the front yard. Both of them are not convinced that “in in” is a release word so I decided to do the tossed treat for some reps instead. They were both doing well so I added a wrap to the “front” side of the wrap and then went back to the threadle wrap.
Perfect – I was just thinking I should take the threadle wrap wing game outside.
Is this the correct timing?
Dog is in sit and I start moving to the wing
I cue In In. This releases the dog
I use a small outside arm for the flipor should I cue and then move?
I think I’m going to remove the furthest out jump on the games 3 sequences so that I can spread out the rest of them. I had to crunch it down by 3-4 ft from the map to fit all the jumps in but really the handling happens on the 3 closer to the tunnel. And I bet I can recreate the mulberry distraction even though I flipped the sequence 90 deg to get better footing and not leave jumps under the mulberries (they stain PVC)
Min got into your OTR Event Prep on Sunday in Sept! Sadly the Young dog lines/turns on Friday filled up with Nancy’s students before it got to my group of past seminar participants. I was debating the young masters dog on Thursday for Kaladin since he has good skills, but I wasn’t sure if he would fit with that group if he decided to be Distracto-Boy. While I was thinking about it, Thursday filled up too. Kaladin is on the wait list right now for Friday.
Kaladin & Min – Skills 3 – Threadle Wrap with Cue – 7/25/21
Added the “In In In” cue and tried to be more subtle with the outside arm flick. I think I was mashing the verbal and the arm cue too much.
Kaladin – Games 3 – Sequences 1&2 – 7/25/21
Took the Instant Focus Game outside and got him interested in an actual tug toy instead of Nemo or the frizzer. Thought he was engaged and then lost him to the mulberries next to the starting wing. (Something shiny!)
Sequence 1 –
He turns well both directions but I felt like I was late on my rotation. (Take 2 weeks off and my timing is rusty with him compared to Min!)
Sequence 2 –
Again felt late on the FCs and completely lost him on the first BC.
At least he was happy tugging on the fleece ring.
Kaladin & Min – Skills 3 – Threadle Wrap – 7/21/21
Kaladin is doing nicely and Min keeps thinking she should wrap the wing. Is it because I’m leaning forward? (Really hard not to do with the little shrimp)
Min – Games 1 – Std 1 – 7/13/21
I don’t usually push her this much on distance in the weaves so was really pleased about her weaving ahead of me and the 2nd option when I faded laterally. Clearly I should have cued the tunnel next or a get it.
Kaladin – Games 2 – Sequence #2 &3 – 7/11&12/21
Great feedback on seq #1. Not sure when I will get back to it, but have made notes to try more business and less cheerleading and send and go more. I find that hard in the backyard because it is cramped. I had to squeeze everything in 2-3ft to get it to fit with 2/3 of a DW on the side. Here are sequences 2 &3 that were done more than a week ago.
Seq 2 – 7/11/21
I liked 1-3. Very late in my dig-dig to 5 so he was wide. I liked the BC to the 2nd tunnel. He jumped the inside of 8. Completely lost connection on the way to the last jump so he came inside the jump. Good boy. Think I should have said the Go before he went in the tunnel but I was on my third tunnel at the time!Practice – Earlier dig dig cue 4-5 and use “yes” for him to drive to me, Cue Go before last tunnel & connection after. Practice FC before 2nd tunnel just for kicks
Seq 3 – 7/12/21
Kaladin – Games 1 – Std 1 – 7/13/21
This was the night before his neuter but I’m just getting around to posting it now.
This was his first visit to Chaia’s. We did some environmental acclimation, Teeter games and a set of 6 poles as a warm up and then I popped him back in his crate to chill while I ran Min. Video is his 2nd session but first running the course. We had a detour to go visit Chaia that I had to collect him from, but at the end I noticed he flicked his eyes to her while going by but then refocused on the course (Yay! Frisbie time!). I had intended to reward right before the teeter but was late and he was headed to it so I went with it and he got his meatball after. It was hot and muggy and his little fluffy puppy brain was working hard with all the new stuff so I didn’t experiment with different handling. He got to rest after this while Min ran the other course.Kaladin – Instant Focus – 7/21/21
I decided to be lazy and use the old baseball cap and a front foot target. It’s portable and I didn’t have anything else lying around that was appropriate.
Did the first session as a warm up since we hadn’t done anything with the cap for months. Didn’t intend to have Demi wandering around as an added distraction but Kaladin ignored her and was fine working in his doughnut.
Second session was a few hours later with the cap and treats planted ahead of time.Kaladin is having a fun farm stay with Skye for the next few days and the girls are hanging out in Karen Marquardt’s “Sheltie Room” with her two Shelties and 2 MNSR fosters. I have videos to catch up on posting but won’t be back in MN with the dogs until Saturday afternoon.
Kaladin & Min – Skills 3 – Threadle Wrap – 7/10/21
Did this inside to make it easier to find tossed treats. Kaladin was very happy to play.
AM session – I think I confused Min as I moving my outside arm forward more than flipping away. We all did much better in the evening.Verbals
Forward Cues
Go
Jump- jump in extension (not always used. Sometimes I revert to Go)Turn Cues
Left/Right – soft turns
Check Check – wrap right
Dig Dig – wrap left
Lalala – backside slice
Circle – backside 360
Come – threadle slice on jumps
Here- Here – tunnel threadle
In In – threadle wrap (introduced but not worked much with Kaladin. Not used much with Min and I think she responds more to it because it sounds like her name)
Flip – spin left (also used after In In for Min since her threadle wrap is half trained and the wrap part isn’t associated well with the In In)
Turn – spin right (also used after In In for Min)
Get out – move further away from line next to me (usually a lead change)Obstacle Cues
Teeter – send to teeter
Bang It – 2o2o on teeter
Poles- weaves (normal approach)
Weaves – weave threadle (Not trained for either dog yet. I use In In – Poles for Min now. Do the weaves need their own theadle cue?)
Tunnel-tunnel – send to obvious tunnel entrance
Walk it – Send to DW (Haven’t adde cue to approach DW yet for Kaladin)
Go-Go (currently using to run DW for Min. still on the “whoohoo!” for Kaladin. Haven’t decided if I need to change it for Min or not)
Frame – Send to Frame
run it (For Min. TBD on Kaladin. He hasn’t been on a frame yet.)
Box – Table & auto down for Min. Table followed by position cue for Kaladin (happy to not worry about this one much!)Release Word
Break – general release from stationary positionReinforcement Cues (Stronger for Kaladin since I trained them when he was a puppy vs adding them in when Min was 4 or 5)
Catch – toy/food tossed in air
Get it – tossed toy ahead on line
Grab it – toy in hand
Treat – food placed in mouth
X -drive into hand for food (also a release if they were in a stationary position)
Toss – 1 piece of thrown food
Happy Hour -run to get stashed treat/toy
Search – 1 piece of placed food (near me and the dog) – not used as much as toss
Eat it – food in dish
Bonanza – treat scatterUh and the generic “yes” that is confusing my dogs but that I feel compelled to “mark” good behavior instead of just reinforcing it by cueing the next behavior.
Min – Games 2 – Jpg 1&3 – Options take 2 and question on Games 3 -7/19/21
Jpg 1 pinwheel
I find it easier to time the crosses earlier when I am FC-ing vs BC-ing so I think that is what is making the FCs faster for me.
Double FC – 4:89
Double BC – 5:11Jpg 3 –
Late BC – 4:96
FC to left (less late and tighter line because I was better at sending on the lala – 4:68
And now I need to take a break from this particular obsession and go catch up o other things!Question on the Instant Focus game in Games 3. I used a baseball cap as my prop for get-outs in MaxPup. Can I use that again if I would like the behavior to be a foot target or should I get a new prop?
