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Heating Porridge – 9/1 and 9/5
Tried with food and some motion first- he offered a down. Tried food with a bit less motion – Still got a down. Switched to a toy and he offered sits! This was an earlier session than the video I already posted with the mini pinny. I was deliberately moving less in that one to see if that helped him offer a sit instead. (but he also had the disconnect looking for his treat in the grass so it wasn’t quite enough when I was outside)Inside – 9/1
Outside – 9/5
So I brought the cute fox barrel up to Duluth but the morning grass is wet so I was delighted to find out our Airbnb RV already had a rocking horse setup. Really proud of the Dude who stayed focused on me with a toy while Min was telling the resident Japanese Chin to bug off.Strike Pose – Barrel – 9/1/20
OK -this one was awkward to get going but then it started going better. There was a short break between the different directions
360 Backside – 9/1/20
Am I doing this right? I realized I’m stepping to the side to go past the barrel behind him.Backslide Slice – 9/1/20
Moved this outside and on to the barrel. (forgot about doing the wing1!) Was concentrating so hard on keeping my hand back and shoulder open that I forgot to actually look down at his beady black eyes. I think that was the reason for when he took the front side.
Heating Porridge & Mini Pinny – 9/2/20
2 sessions today with the porridge thrown in at the beginning. Session at lunch I used food and toy for the evening session. He had trouble doing a spin but that is a harder trick. He offered a sit after each time. Last night I tried this inside with food and he could only offer a down (even when I asked for a sit). I have to edit those sessions down before I post them.He got the bending well so I added the bumps and then the left/right cue. I started with the bumps not a bit closer together than 90deg angles and then I moved them a bit further apart later in the 2nd session. He seemed more comfortable bouncing through them when they were at the closer spacing.
Tunnel Threadle with Cue – 8/26/20
Really happy with this one over lunch when it was 89deg out and muggy. No ducking in to the tunnel during setup and he played with the tug toy (with me running with the toy to the exit) even though he had to go past Nemo to get to the tunnel with me originally. I’m already using “come” as my non-tunnel threadle slice cue and didn’t like a single drawnout “heeeeerrre” for this so trying a slow repeated “here-here-here”. I think I turned my feet to the tunnel a bit early on the 2nd rep, but managed to keep them straight until he turned away to the tunnel on the 1rst and 3rd.Rocking Horse Spin & Racetrack -8/24/20
In an earlier session (not shown), I told myself to make sure I could see his black beady eyes and had 2 whoopsie BCs which I did reward. Watched that video and realized I was good about looking at his eyes as he came around the barrel but then closed my shoulder while still looking at him and then took eyes off him before he passed me. So tried again (in this video) after a pep talk to open the shoulder AND look at his eyes – apparently I suck at this!
Or maybe I need to not get as far ahead so he can pass me sooner so I don’t feel like I”m going to run in to the barrel before I can look at it?Backside Slice – 8/25/20
2 sessions today (at lunch in my “work clothes”, aka the non-t-shirt top and earrings for video conferences, and later my agility t shirt I wore to Min’s class)
Faster moving to sherpa when ball was the reward even though he wasn’t sure about playing with it inside with Demi (Dean’s resident couch potato) walking by.
I think I could have added my ‘lalala’ verbal on this as he seems to be pretty cool with going around the back.Wing Wrap and 360 Backside – 8/25/20
Did a warmup with PNU and then some wing wrapping
Previously we tried this outside with a tug toy and decided it was still too hot and muggy even at 8pm at night (and yes -sadly we’re losing daylight noticeably). Not sure if the heat made it worse, but I have been having some difficulty using a tug toy as a reward because he’s not keen on giving it up and then tends to get mouthy after he does drop it.
Rocking Horse Spin & Racetrack – 8/23/20
Mashup of 2 sessions. First one with a fluffy tug that he doesn’t like to give up so we spent lots of time tugging and letting him have it (some cropped out)
Then tried it with Nemo since it was getting warmer and I also wanted a smaller toy to hold.
And yes -that’s the formerly big scary blue barrel!We were having so much fun, we tried the race track too after a short break. I find it hard not to look ahead to the next barrel and I think I must be doing that a bit too soon because that’s when he slips behind me.
Leading with Head – 8/22 & 23/20
First video is a mashup of 2 short sessions with the PNU inside
Then the next day we used the Sherpa bag inside (with treats that were too crumbly) and the “big scary” barrel outsideTunnel Threadle with Cue – 8/21 & 22/20
I think YouTube is losing its mind. Video was fine on my phone and uploaded to youtube without stalling out and then clearly got stuck when you hit play.
So I cropped out some of it and added today’s session
Used Here and then decided I wanted repeated cue so repeated it for here-here-here. Was so so about engaging with tug without me hanging on to the other end so switched to Nemo since it was still warm and muggy
2nd session did the double whammy. Clearly need to work on picking him up better when setting up so I stop losing him in to the tunnel.
Serp/Threadle with Nemo -8/21/20
Upped the stakes with Nemo. Good reminder about doing more serps than threadles. I did too many back-sides with Min when she was younger and she sometimes defaults to the back without a backside cue. He made some mistakes when he wanted to go straight to Nemo so paused the motion
Tunnel Threadle with Cue – baby level – 8/21/20
Used “Heeeeerrrre” and then decided a shorter repeated cue would work better so repeated it for here-here-here. He was so so about engaging with tug without me hanging on to the other end so switched to Nemo since it was still warm and muggy
https://youtu.be/2PjR6PSXrQ0
