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Straight Exits – Cato Board – 2/13/21
So I’m really bummed because he had a fabulous session right before this, but my gorillapod slipped and I ended up with a video of my head and the ceiling! He was running to the cato board and I even got him so jazzed up that he launched himself over the board and was shocked that didn’t get him a reward.
So this was a take 2 and not nearly so exciting.
Back & Forth with Motion – 2/13/21
This was the first time I tried a bit of countermotion as he was sending to the target.Back & Forth with Motion – 2/13/21
This was the first time I tried a bit of countermotion as he was sending to the target.
Sometimes he thinks wrapping wings is boring. He flies around them in the middle of a sequence but doesn’t always get jazzed starting with them so I mixed it up with other things.Advanced Cookies From Heaven – 2/11/21
I did a few of these around the house with a handtouch and sometims using his dish of raw food as the cookie but releasing to his crate to eat. Sorry no video as they were impromptu.
This was 2 sessions tonight. I had to wave the treat bag around to get him to look up so I could see if he looked back down on “ready”. Should I be saying target or just letting him offer it?
Min cracked me up so I left some of that in.I really can’t wait for more daylight. Granted I need more sleep but not having it pitch black as much would help too.
Earlier you had asked about taking his teeter game on the road. Sadly the space I rent doesn’t have any contacts. However he recently moved out of sports foundation and in to beginning agility when a spot opened up so he got to play the bang game on a new (and clattery) teeter tonight. His ears twitched the first time but he rocked it even with me sending from more lateral distance. He also got to hang around and do tricks and get treats when other dogs banged it.
Wobble – Pull You Off – 2/9/21
I experimented with both the bosu ball (which has a textured layer on the flat side) and a cato/versa disc combo. My official wobble board has sand granules and I was worried that would be harder on his paws and might inhibit him pulling back. As it turned out, he was a bit luke warm about tugging at all on the tippy surface so I let go on just the slightest pull back. I’m not sure it actually got better based on that but plan to circle back later this week and maybe not later at night. (but my usual lunch time training session got bumped due to walking them then instead of at oh-dark-30 with the neg 20 windchills (only about neg 10 windchill in the middle of the day but at least it’s been sunny!)Yes No Go Tunnel & Turnaways – 2/7/21
He nailed the first No-yes tunnel with the BC. 2nd one I think I was late on the BC so he had a more curvy path.I was going to use In In In for both his threadle wrap and threadle 360 cue since they both involve a threadle and a collected jump. I was thinking my motion forward or back could happen soon enough that he would know whether to accelerate out of a 180 wrap or continue curving around for a 360. So I added the cue and of course he didn’t come inside the wing the first time. At 1:17 I can see my outside arm is up but my shoulders aren’t really opening to him so he probably just saw my back and went around.
Forced Fronts & RC Wraps – 2/7/21
I adapted the decel setup to revisit some of the seminar stuff. Moved a bit sooner on the forced fronts and he didn’t have problems with that. Managed to get him driving ahead of me so he nailed the RC wraps. I really like the last one to the left where he chipped in a stride to collect more right before his turn.And I also have to remember to start working on his post run routine. I’ve done pieces of it off and on but should use it more in his training so that he sometimes has to get leashed up and then get his reward. I also did teach him to jump in to my arms but am not sure if I will use that at the end of runs or not. The extra 10lbs he has compared to Min has an exponential force impact as he’s running up my leg.
Back & Forth – 2/7/21
OK – progress here thanks to meatballs, some tricks and the tunnel. I also did this session first when he was fresh. I think I rewarded a few where his inside hind just missed the target, but I was excited he was moving faster and figured it wasn’t a bad thing to reward effort even if 1 paw missed.Straight Exits – 2/7/21
Added the tunnel. He doesn’t always want to play when I push him around a bit and can get bitey, but it worked here to jazz him up more.Deceleration – 2/7/21
Good reminder that someday we will be back in person and with other dogs doing things around us. So I put his harness on and got him tugging (it took a few tries before he really grabbed the toy) and then asked for a few tricks and ditched the harness in the middle before setting him up.
Got one (1:30ish) where he actually stopped and looked at me. And got one send where I was getting really excited at how tight he was turning and then realized he was trying to get something off the floor! (maybe a dropped treat?)Straight Exits – 2/6/21
No misses with any foot, but he only ran the last one. In his defense, I think he was tired. It was the last thing we did today (the back and forth was done at the beginning of the session and he did a tunnel game for Max Pup between)Back & Forth with Pet Tutor – 2/6/21
Thanks for the vet wrap tip. I’ll stick with the cato board or an inverted target for now. I need to hunt around for something a bit smaller than the cato board to use later.
He’s sending farther and with less help. Still a bit casual going in to it. He thinks “dead toys” are stooopid (just ask Tracy!) but I’ll experiment some more with what I can do to jazz him up more. Think I’ll try meatballs tomorrow…
Yes Tunnel, No Tunnel, Go Tunnel – 2/6/21
I explained this game to Dean and he thought it sounded like a Dr Suess game. Kaladin thought it was fun even though he had to work for a tug toy instead of Spider ball. Then again, sometimes he reminds me of a Dr Suess character.
I don’t think my connection was that great on the 2nd No tunnel (0:45) but he read my mind and didn’t duck behind me in to the tunnel.
And then I decided to mix this up with the turnaways. Cued the threadle 360 late (0:58) but he corrected course and came in for the threadle when I got my arm up and started saying InIn. Got a run by the Go tunnel when I started moving too soon. (0:35)
Volume Dial Naked Play – 2/2, 2/4 & 2/6/21
Here’s a mash up of 3 sessions from earlier this week and today where I used it as a way to warm him up before doing some RDW target work. Setting treats aside was pretty easy for him. It was hard for him to engage with Spiderball at first when he knew there were meatballs on the box nearby (ok – so that was a bit mean, but he worked through it). In general he’s gotten a lot better at ignoring the ball on the ground nearby. That was really hard for him in the summer and Fall when he would run across the yard to check on Nemo instead of engaging with the toy in my hand.Cookies from Heaven – 2/5/21
This is a mash up of 3 short sessions (I was alternating with Min. 2nd session starts about 30sec and 3rd at 1:20). I was getting some bob head down and back up again but that got better when I started dropping the treat faster.
I tried it again this afternoon (no video) and he was even better even when I waved the treat around above his head he started nose touching and continued looking down even as his head came up from the target a bit.I should also add, that while they are shockingly fuschia, those pants were on sale and are lined with soft fleece so super-comfy and warm.
Elevated Target with Toy – 2/3/21
First session inside and 2nd on the driveway since it was actually dry. We’re getting sleet now and snow later so don’t expect I’ll be back on the driveway for a while. I can only rent the indoor space with the nice Comfort King mats on weekends.I think I’m going to need a longer yoga mat strip that I can secure under the cato baord feet since he is slipping on it when his speed increases.
And I had to step on the edge of the loose mats in my living room to stop him from moving those!Should I move to a smaller elevated target or transition to a flat mat without elevation when he is more consistently running (instead of trotting) to the cato board?
