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Target & Soft Turns – 3/18/21
I was able to rent ring time on Wednesday and get him running on a flat regulation size DW plank. He some nice sepated back feet hits like the first rep. Then he did some where he would hit with a back foot or two but be bouncing up in to the air and not hit with front feet. (2nd & 3rd reps). I rewarded the first one because I thought both back feet hit but then he started getting bouncier (3rd rep) and missing with his back foot so not sure I should have rewarded the first bouncy one.
Then today I put the target out in the front yard (newly melted but not quite ready to lay a plank down on it) and took Tracy’s suggestion from the weave pole class to pair the PT and his ball using the ball as the reward to recall to me. I think this approach has promise for him as he was really running and mostly hitting the target even as I started moving the PT for turns off the target.Is it helpful to do the target without the plank to keep working on his turns in addition to the turns off the plank? I also have to circle back and do some of the back and forth with obstacles but with the flat target instead of the inverted one. It looks like I shouldn’t try propping the plank up until I can get him doing up to 90 deg turns off the plank with a high rate of success (we’ve really only done up to about 45deg off center). I’m going to skip the collection turns for now, but should I try the wing after the flat plank?
2×2 Threadle side entries – 3/18/21
First session for these so used PT and treat back to me. Also went from 2&8 to 1&7. This seemed easy for him so plan to try Nemo ball for recall back to me next time.Snow is melted again but I am not getting tunnels out yet. I plan to do the weave tunnel discrimination game at the rented space this weekend.
2x2s – 1&7 entries – 3/17/21
You were right about using his ball. He was trotting along smelling the flowers with the Pet Tutor (but getting the entries right) and he picked it up when spiderball got tossed in. I ended on an easier entry since he was really running for it. Should I be swithing back to the PT if he starts turning his head back on exit? Or should that not be an issue if I’m tossing the ball early enough?Front yard is mostly melted (again) so just waiting for it to dry out a bit before training there again.
Tracy –
A few questions on the 2nd Bang it game.
Is Hot Sauce not using a physical target? I don’t think I saw one in the videoAre you rewarding for the correct position or also hitting target/scratching target? (It looked like Elektra was getting rewarded for position)
Did we shift to a target word as opposed to a general “whee” (or whatever the generic “go do your thing” word was)?
End position on plank with scratching – 3/15/21
I’ve been working to move his scratching behvior when the scratch pad/wood thing angled and up a bit to scratching at it when it’s on the ground. I put it on a plank tonight and I”m not sure if the scratching is a strong enough behavior yet. He was nose and paw targeting first and then scratching.
Channels – 3/14/21
Did more angles and more running with the channels yesterday. The entries he missed were when I sent from 4’o clock and with my movement.
Sadly we just got 3-4in of snow so now I have to wait for my yard to melt again. Should I try using his ball the next time? Is the timing to throw the ball as soon as he makes the entry? (since he’s not really popping out once he’s in them when they are this wide)Hi Jordan,
I can see lessons 3&4. I don’t know if they were available “on schedule” since I’m a bit behind so wasn’t looking for them right away.
Julie
Plank & Soft Exits – 3/14/21
We had a so so session on this yesterday where he was doing more trotting and coming off the plank early when the PT was even slightly off the straight line exit.
Then today’s session went much better. I am even seeing several reps with nice hind foot separation! I think it does help to have him do a trick and get rewarded after a miss. He puts his cape on and launches at 0:35sec and he was still running for the next rep after getting a reward for spinning to the right. He was starting to slide off the side a bit in this next rep but I didn’t want him to have 2 errors in a row so I rewarded it.I wasn’t too excited about his pounce up in the air on the first rep but he did hit with a front and rear foot so I rewarded it.
Makes sense about delaying the work on the collection turns. If it comes up before I get to it I can always be up at the exit to manage that turn.
2x2s – 2&8 & 1&7 entries – 3/13/21
I don’t think he’s as consistent about trotting on the left side approaches for this one. We had done the Lines sequences before this and then he had a break while I played with Min on the Lines stuff but I think he was a bit tired. (oh – and Kaladin actually has a better send to a left wrap than she does right now. I think that’s because I am often up at the jump for the wrap when I run her) Of course he was completely recovered and ran around like a wild man with Bikini later in the afternoon.He sent on his own once when I was intending to gather him up before cueing the poles but it was so nice I went ahead and had PT reward him.
It’s hard to see, but I was running along pretty laterally for a lot of these and running towards the PT before he had made the entry on some of them.
Yup – never seen “channels” before. I was happy with how quickly he figured them out.
Did I have them about right in terms of how open they were? I peeked at Christina’s channel video and hers look a bit more like 1&7 vs my 2&8ish.
Interesting point about his sides. I guess the right side (as in he’s on my right for off-side weaves) do have the pole to wrap around so sometimes tend to be easier for the dog to recognize what to do.Today was gorgeous -got up to 60 and Elizabeth and Bikini came over for a playdate with Kaladin. Unfortunately we’re supposed to get a few inches of snow on Monday but it shouldn’t last long and the ice pack in the back yard is steadily receeding.
Oh like put all 3 sets at 2 and 8 (or 1 and 7) so the dog has a relatively straight path through them?
Great – now I have more games to try out. LoL!OK – will stick with this mat size for now. I feel like we have a bunch more to do with the softer turns off the plank before we get to the collection turns
The place I rent has 2x2s so we’ll do them there next. Plus the backyard is drying out.
Well it had been 6yrs since I had done the SG 2x2s so I had to go dig up info on it as a refresher. She adds the 2nd set very close to the first when you have an angled entry. Then the 2nd set moves about 4ft away and you start closing the angle and moving them closer together with the front set staying more open. We got to the 2nd set almost straight and the front set at 1&7 and sort of stalled out. So looking forward to the 2nd set of games after we do some more angles and running.
What did you mean by stringing 2x2s together for channels? Or is that in the channel track which I hadn’t looked at yet since I figured I didn’t have any.
Adding Obstacles – 3/11/12
So excited! He had really good speed and accuracy with the inverted box when I moved this to the front yard. He is not pulling off the target when I cue the wrap around the barrel or tree. (yay). He had to think a bit when I started putting the ball closer to his path, but he worked through it and didn’t try to grab the ball first.The inverted box I am using is about as long as his body. Should I start mixing in just the mat, or try for a smaller box next? What’s my goal for how small the mat target should be?
Thanks for the explanation on the directional vs next obstacle cue. Makes sense now.
