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Mini Pinny Proofing – 10/16/20
He’s spending less time thinking about it in the neutral position (except for the squirrly rep where he had to kiss me and lie down)Serp Proofing – 10/15/20
Added some more motion and tried to think about being more subtle while still staying connected. Had a few issues with the tunnel this time.Tracy –
Ladder grid are 4in locked bars for all 3 jumps. Did you want me to raise to 6in for all 3?
Will try tossing the ball on set point. Assume you want me to keep that one at 10in for now?Ladder Grid & Set Point – 10/14/20
Set him up closer and he was better about getting through the first space. The angled bars don’t seem to bother him.We just did 3 reps so we could do a bit of set point at 10in too. (He blew a bunch of coat after his bath but the butt floof is still strong in this one). I think I had him a bit too far from the first jump on the first 10in rep as he was arcing down over the jump. The next two were better.
Ladder grid – 4in locked bars and 5ft distance.
Set Point – up to 10in
Wind in Hair RC & Backside 360 – 10/14/20
Really happy with his backside 360s after the RC. (this was his first shot at it) I especially like the last RC going to the right where I started in on his line as soon as his fluffy butt went by so he had his head turned to the right before he went over the jump. (2:02)So the sports foundation class I am in likes to teach a RC on the flat around a cone. I’ve never liked that as it feels awkward to have the dog take the cone between you and the cone and wrap away from you. I find it encourages me to pull and flip as opposed to driving the diagonal line to cross their path. I talked my way out of it by showing a RC on the flat by crossing behind his path and using the prop as a target in the new direction. I also feel like he is reading the RC nicely in this exercise. Any suggestions for other ways to explain why I don’t like that method?
Zig Zag – 10/13/20
OK -he nailed the 6ft distance. Wasn’t sure if you meant 3 wings or 3 zig zags with 4 wings so did 4! And luckily he seems excited over any ball he can squish. I had switched to Mickey Mouse because it was smaller and easier to hold as I was doing the LOP dance. I think I’m going to give this one a rest until we get the next game that progresses it.
Wind in Hair RC – 10/12/20
I think I was feeling like I had to get out of his way (the lateral step) instead of moving towards the center of the jump and crowding his floofy butt (now slightly less floofy after his dip in the Mississippi and resulting bath and blow out)
Had much better results this time with concentrating on moving to the center. (well – after the brain fart and lost connection on the first Go). I am seeing him lead with his head going in to the turn on the barrel but is he swinging a bit wide coming out of the turn? Of course that could be partly because I’m hanging back with him to let him get past me for the RC and not driving up the line ahead of him.Serp Proofing – 10/12/20
Started with treats (fish fudge even) thinking that would be easier to reward in the tight space between jump and tunnel but he went off looking for his mickey mouse ball (which he had seen me place on the ground before starting) after a few reps. Got 1 tunnel instead of a serp but he nailed it the next time.Ladder Grid – 10/11/20
5ft distance, 4in locked bar. We have done some of these over the summer so I moved him along pretty quickly in to the angled jumps. He had one rep where he didn’t drive to Nemo, but stopped short. The next time I tossed Nemo and then released him and he started driving to Nemo again.
Oh – and I video-ed this just before 7pm -the shorter days are really becoming obvious.Diamond – 10/11/20
Whooeee – This was definitely fun once I sorted out what I was doing. The tip in the video to hold the toy in the hand closest to the dog as you start and then just keep swinging it around to cross across your body for the exit line connection helped alot…until I did 2 in a row and realized I hadn’t switched hands on the toy!I haven’t used his frisbie as much as a reward as he seemed less in to it, but I guess he’s decided it’s his new favorite toy here.
So I had always thought that blind crosses tended to cue extension so using them on a wrap was a bit counter-intuitive. Or is it if you start them soon enough and keep rotating around that it helps keep you in motion as you get out of dodge?
Wind in Hair RC – 10/11/20
Turning to the left nicely with left verbal and also just my motion. Wanted to keep going straight for the RC to the right but did get it with a verbal cue. I don’t think I ran the diagonal behind him as well as I did to the left. I was trying to remember to keep looking at his eyes and forgot to move in on his line sooner.
Zig Zag – 10/11/20
Had the first 2 gaps at 4.5ft. Then 5 ft and 5.5 ft. Should have stopped after one of the ones where we got all 5. Going to chalk the ones later where he missed some up to the session being too long. Also going to stretch the wings out more next time.Send & Serp – 10/9/20
I think I did a better job being less lateral from the jump once I moved the MM in line with the jump so I wasn’t worried about tripping over it. However I’m not really sure why my arm was floating in the air after the send before it came back and down in most of the reps. I think I’m going to blame lack of caffeine.The piano quartet arrangement of Eroica was cool. They only played the 2nd movement but I really like that one. Of course it would have been even better if the oboe solo had been left in….
Zig Zag – 10/9/20
Have compressed it down to 4.5ft between wings over several sessions this week. He can do 3 and sometimes 4 wings at 4ft but tends to skip the 3rd one if I try 5 at 4ft. This video is at 4.5 ft.Mini Pinny Proofing – 10/8/20
The MN Orchestra and SPCO did a great job coordinating so there are MN Orchestra live streams on Fridays and SPCO on Saturdays! So we watched both from our Living Room couch with the Shelties. SPCO did an arrangement of the 2nd movement from Beethoven’s Eroica but for Piano Quartet. Plus a solo Trumpet premiere which Dean really liked.Did some Mini Pinny sessions in the last few days and tried the neutral position today. In real time it felt like he took a long time to decide to leave and turn around the pinwheel, so I was surprised that it wasn’t that long on video
