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Winging It – Tunnel Entries and Exits – 1/3/21
Thanks for the reminder about not starting with a wing wrap. I don’t know what I was thinking yesterday. Much better on the Go today when starting on the tunnel (more speed but he is head checking). Although apparently I was busy saying Go instead of tunnel before I switched to a directional. And I almost fell over him twice when I crowded him too much on the RC and he hesitated. To his credit, he still turned the correct way. The side wings were rather close to the tunnel so that RC angle was pretty extreme. And the time I gave the wrong directional, he turned the direction my motion indicated so good puppy!
Winging It – Tunnel Entries and Exits – 1/2/21/
Had plenty of room for the length but had to crunch in the side wings. I was so impressed that he did the tunnel entries and exits on those RCs.Teeter – Bang It – 1/1/21
We did a lazy game with an angled plank right before this. He seemed pretty confident with the 2in drop so I think I’ll try working in more arousal next.He’s doing great with his first steps of boiling the frog for the mountain climber.
Teeter – Hind End – 12/31/20
Ok – this is going much better now. Did a couple sessions where we tried backing up to the Cato board (plus the backing up to the wobbleboard) and then I did this one soon after the lazy contact game. He still prefers to come on the side to get to 2o2o, but he’s also thinking more about picking up his back feet and backing up.
Teeter – Love the Slam – 12/24/20
This was from last week on the 24th. Did 2 sessions with a short break. First one was a louder slam with the wobble board hitting the concrete on 1 side (with a book underneath a first). When I removed the book he started offering to slam it so I went with that and used my crouching/sitting to be a cue that he should back up instead. Then we confirmed that he can slam the wobble board for a toy instead of his beloved Pet Tutor even though he had to think about whether it was worth it to get on and off the board at first. (we started with all on the turf so it was quieter)
Contacts Lazy Game – 12/31/20
Cropped it out, but we had a short game of tug before I brought out the board. I like how he straightened himself out when he realized the target wasn’t coming out when he was off to the side
Contacts Lazy Game – 12/29/20
Longer video but I thought it was neat to see the steam coming out of his ears as he worked things out. He seemed to catch on when I remembered to look down at the floor and to move back a bit to give him more space to come off the board. I taught a nose target first but switched to a front paw target when I was sending him to it. I rewarded the nose first since he had finally decided to come off the board. And clearly a rabbit tug wasn’t what he wanted for a break when there was the possibility of treats. I think he would have tugged if I had started moving around but I was feeling lazy.And I’m still laughing at your qualifying comments on slowly boiling a frog.
Teeter – Mountain Climber- 12/25/20
Here’s the Christmas edition with the reindeer bandana. Second session with a slightly lowered teeter and he looks more confident, even choosing to hop on from the side after he had at first started to go by the board. Should I continue to work at a lower height to get more speed and confidence from him or slowly move it back up to full height and then work on more speed?And as for his slower performance when going to the right, I think that is relatively new. He had a short puppy massage last week and turned up. He does see Dr Julia in about 2 weeks so I’ll see if she turns up anything.
Winging It Countermotion- 12/27/20
Did some sends behind me with tossing the toy back (including one premature one). I think his last rep where he chased me out of the wrap was a bit faster sending behind me.Motion Override- 12/26/20
It wasn’t his Nemo ball but he really likes Mickey Mouse too so I was really happy with his responses.
Should I mix in some downs on these? Our stand isn’t strong enough to test that yet.
Winging It – double Blinds – 12/26/20
We decided to mix it up with the single blind and double blinds together. I felt like I was Zig zagging some on the double blinds but I think that started with me going too deep in for the first blind so I had to Zig Zag to clear the middle wing.And 12/27/20 – Double Blinds
Tried them again focusing on not going so deep in to the wing for the first BC. Good news is he still committed to the wing wrap. However I still tend to run a Zig Zag lineWinging It – 3 wings – 12/26/20
We got 8in of snow on the 23rd so I think we’ll be inside for the rest of the season.
I think we’re still more comfortable with the backside 360s to the left but I felt like the ones to the right are improving. I edited out a lot of tugging between reps when I was sorting out what to do next.
Winging It Countermotion- 12/22/20
This was from yesterday the blizzard hit.
I think I could have left sooner on a lot of the send backs. He also did a sit with me slowly jogging at the end!
Straight Lines 4 Ways – 12/21/20
Did you just say I had too much connection on the Go? (SCORE!) – I think he did better on the Go when I relaxed the connection and threw the toy sooner. His head stayed pointed forward. I think I was worried about throwing too soon and having the toy be a lure before. No near impalements this time, but he was turning to the left on my check check (wrap right) cue. I think he was reading the decel as a RC (which I had done before) and it didn’t help that for some reason I wasn’t starting the FC rotation until way late.
I threw in the motion override sit after his warm-up tug and at the end and he nailed both of them!Unfortunately I think my backyard days are numbered this season. We’re supposed to get a few inches of snow on Wed night and then the temps drop to 10 on Thursday which will ice up the back yard. Well – it’s been a great long outdoor season since usually all my equipment is packed up by the middle of October.
Teeter – Hind End – 12/20/20
We have done some “bang it” games with the teeter a few inches off the ground and we’ve done backing up on to a plank so I was surprised that he was not getting this. (I left in a few clips of the better moments- mostly he was backing to either side of the plank or standing still willing the pet tutor to beep). So several hours later, I had him offer backing up on to the long side of the Cato board which was easy for him. Then we went back downstairs and things went much better.
