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Wind in the Hair – 9/19/20
I’ve got a UKI At Home Snooker course in my backyard so we moved to the front with the huge wing that doesn’t fit as well in a course in the back. I figured he might as well see a variety of standards including home made ones from shower curtains! Sometimes he was turning his head a bit to look at me but he was committing to the jump nicely as he came out of the wrap. I watched the full video after I did this session. I think I was supposed to add faster movement before adding distance, so I’ll go back to a slightly shorter distance and start moving myself more.And I decided check-check will be wrap right and gauche-gauche will be wrap left. I am going to transition Min to these. She prefers to turn right and I am used to saying check check so I;m repurposing that one. Gauche-gauche is new for her but she’s catching on quickly. Swing was my flip away on a tight wrap and Kaladin actually does that on the flat so I’ll keep that just incase it comes in handy for something.
Rocking Horse Tunnel – 9/16/20
2 sessions today.
Not quite sure what I am doing to get him to duck back in the tunnel exit on the threadle. I called him to get a turn to me just to break it up and then he started threading again.
Around 2:30 I think I have proof that my connection and shoulder is way more important than the tunnel cue since the cue was really late and he still locked on to the tunnel.
That’s the first time he came in so hard that his teeth made contact with my leg instead of the toy. Clearly he was frustrated and over aroused. The squeal on my part was involuntary but he did give me a bit of a shocked look and was more careful the next time.
In the video did you really do a FC after the wing wrap but send to a toy next to the tunnel? I did it as a post turn here as it felt like a FC sending to the toy was muddying the waters too much for my puppy that missed the tunnel when I Iost connection earlier.
And thanks so much for the plan on how to address his right side flinching. I has to laugh at your comment on the pinball game being more fun as I’ve always gotten bored pretty quickly with circle work.
I’m seeing that he is starting to look for toy across the bar more when he goes to the left than the right, but will do a few more sessions dropping it soon and then see if I can start delaying the drop because he is looking to come in over the bar. I should also add that I am using 4.5ft bars instead of 5ft bars as I’d like him to understand coming in over shorter ones since you do run in to those. Let me know if I should be using 5ft bars instead to make it easier at this stage.
I’ve done various sessions of Derrett style circle work/SG Reinforcement zone since he was younger. I haven’t done as much lately during MaxPup camp, but when I’ve gone back to it I’ve noticed that he doesn’t stay as close when on my right side and sometimes even flinches away. This is more common the faster I go or the more I pick up my feet while moving. I think this originated months ago when he wrapped the leash around Dean in a walk and Dean whipped his leg up and over to untangle himself before I could more carefully extricate the 2 of them. After that I worked a lot with food and toys to desensitize him to slight leg movements near him and then more movements. It went well and he seemed to be over it, but now it’s back, and mainly when he’s on my right. I don’t see it if he is busy tugging next to me or aroused by something (during meal preparation I can practically do the can-can near him and he’s glued to my side), but I am seeing it if I jog/run with him on my right and sometimes (although not in the video) with him recalling to my right if I am moving. (he’ll come in and at the last minute veer off a bit to put distance between us) I don’t see it on tight circles when I am not moving much at all. He has an extreme example on the inside circle towards the end of the video where he actually shies away. Do I just keep working at this off and on with him below threshold and build up my speed again? Or should I be doing something else? Or will this be something that I can work on in the context of the next session’s games?
Adjustable Stride Grid – Drive ahead to Toy – 8/20/20
So posting this as an example of his improvement in driving ahead to a dead toy. Granted it’s his favorite Nemo ball, but he’s come a long way from not being interested in dead toys at all. I had done some ladder grids with him back in June and was having issues getting the right reinforcement at the end of the grid. He was doing best with a treat on a target. I took a break from the bumps during Max Pup Summer camp, but circled back a few weeks ago and lo & behold – he’s driving ahead to a dead toy!
This was a much longer session as I was moving the jump around and doing some catch games to reward his sit or tossing Nemo for him after he grabbed it, but he also stayed focused on what I was doing for about 6-1/2 minutes.I just cropped it down to his actual grid performance.
Backside Slice/360 – 9/15/20
I think I had better timing on crossing his path in the backside 360. Got a front side when I didn’t have my shoulder back enough, but didn’t get the rear cross. And I like the “circle-circle-circle” cue better.
My aim in tossing the toy in the backside 360 is a bit off but I think I am doing better on getting it in sooner (well first one was late and he had to turn back for it, but he’s coming in over the 4in locked bar). I think I had better aim and timing on the reward placement in yesterday’s session, but that one went a bit long and would require cropping so I’m being lazy and uploading the short session instead.Did a parallel path at the end. It’s hard for him to keep focusing forward when I have his favorite Nemo ball in my inside hand tempting him, but I did like how he turned his focus forward again after flicking his gaze to my left hand holding Nemo
On another topic, are we going to do any circle work games in the next session? Because I’m seeing something there that I’d like your input on, but I can hold it for the next session if it’s coming up anyway.
Backside Slice & 360 – 9/9/20
Yup – definitely using my motion for a FC or to move away from the jump to come in over the bar on the backside slice. When I kept moving parallel for a serp he went around it. Should the reward be dropped more on the exit line of a slice/serp or closer to the first standard which I did to hopefully help make it more obvious that he should come over the bump.Got some interesting extra spins on the backside 360 and not really sure why.
Threw in a parallel path at the end and was happy to see he still remembered that after all the backside fancy moves we’ve been focusing on.
Also happy to report that he has no issues working in a drizzle with me in a raincoat.I had a smaller bump when I was on vacation. I went back to the bigger more obvious one here. He’s almost 11 months so I can also add a very low bar too, but didn’t want to change too many things when test his understanding of coming back over the bump.
And I decided that even with an “ah” to preface the “nah-nah-nah”, that I don’t think it’s different enough from lalala. So I did a session later (inside since it was dark already!) and started using “circle-circle-circle”.
With new video
Backside Slice & 360 – 9/5/20
OK -had to use the cute new fox barrel on vacay even if our airbnb stationary RV came with a fire pit and rock cairn for max pup training. You asked about the verbal cue for the 360 backside. Min’s is na-na-na, but I don’t use it much and I’m not sure it is too close to the lalala backside slice even if I try to draw out the na-na’s a bit more than the faster triplet sounding lalala. Kinda like the rhythm in American – lalala – lalala – na – na – na. I think Susan deliberately picked 2 similar sounding words for the backside cues, but I’m wondering if that is confusing for the dog since they jump the slice and the 360 differently.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.
