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Tunnel threadles & sends -8/1/20
Posting this one because I’m trying to figure out why he’s deciding to hang out inside the tunnel with his toy. He’s done it a few times before and usually when it was warmer. It was cooler for this session and I was doing more catch and playing between reps and also keeping the angles a bit easier. Unless it;s just that he likes to try to shred fluffy toys (although in 1 session a few days ago I had to fish Nemo out of the tunnel)
Prop Countermotion – 7/31/20
Added a bit more distance inside. How long should my arm be back and supporting the prop as I’m moving away? Sometimes I feel like I’m dropping it too soon when I start moving.Jump Bump Parallel Path with Nemo – 7/30/20
Pretty happy with how he kept his noodles in the bowl with Nemo in play. Thx for reminding me about being ahead- he was successful when I made sure the line to me was through the jump but cut inside when it wasn’t.
In regards to him lying down when tugging in our tunnel session, it’s not teething. He’s had all his adult teeth for a while. I think part of it is him pulling back and just ending up in a down but I will try letting go sooner to see if he stops. It wasn’t hot then but sometimes he does seem to lie down more in the heat.
Tunnel Threadles – 7/29/20
So I was prepared to treat him for sticking with me and not taking extra tunnels and he didn’t even try.
There are mulberries in the back part of our yard (thanks to the neighbor’s poor planting decision) and he was dropping the toy to look for them in a few cases so I ended heading in the other direction to take the berries out of play.Tunnel – 7/27&28/20
This is excerpts from 3 sessions over the last 2 days. (and previously we had 1 tunnel shaping refresher since I’ve only done a few training sessions with the tunnel with him before this). I ditched the clicker after I almost threw it with the toy.
Sending to the food in the dish is the slowest. Nemo the fastest and the fluffy tug in the middle. Not shown – but I did confirm that a “dead toy” on the ground rates below the food dish in terms of effort expended. So I decided to toss the toy after he entered but where he could see it landing from the sky.
A bit long, but the middle section just cracked me up when he started taking Nemo in to the tunnel
Strike a Pose -7/27/20 – take 2 on the video
I accidentally dropped a treat near the end and proved that it was too much of a distraction for him as he skipped the nose touch to the post-it and started heading to the treat.
More trumpet for you in this one!Jump Bump with Food and Toy – 7/28/20
Mash up of 2 short sessions – First one I did a bit more lateral distance with tossing food (as much lateral as I can do in my living room without removing the couch!). Then decided to try tossing the indoor version of Nemo (his new Mickey Mouse ball).
I plan to move outside for the next session.Cameo appearance by Demi, our resident couch potato. I didn’t realize she was nervously wandering back and forth (and going right by Min in her bed off to the side) as we were doing this until I watched the video
Wing Wrapping Standing up – 7/27/20
I hadn’t noticed how he leads with his head around the turns but that is cool.
I moved to standing up straight pretty quickly since my legs decided they didn’t approve of crouching longer. I had the obstacle between 6-24in away from me.Parallel Path – Jump Bump – 7/27/20
Found a solution (thanks to Costco.com) for how to get footing with traction and not lose a treat in grass! (although now I need a larger living room since I don’t have much more room to push back the couch)
This was his first session with a jump bump so I stayed close but it seemed easy for him.Prop – Parallel path & Rear crosses – 7/25/20
Put a fit paws pod underneath the hat so that I could see it sticking up better in the grass. Did this session at an outdoor agility trial (way down the hill and far away from the action).
He turned the correct direction for each RC (yay) but I’m having a hard time clicking and throwing the treat soon enough on the parallel path. By the time it looks like he has intent to hit the prop or at least stride over it, he’s already turning his head to check with meAdv Wing Wrapping – 7/24/20
We’ve done this with a cone or PNU in both yards and at his class. Now we’re back in the basement because the heat index was pushing 100 over lunch. He cut inside near the end partly because the treat bag was there, but he sorted it out
Prop – Parallel Path and Rear Cross – 7/22/20
Still missing hitting the prop on some parallel motion passes even with me close (and he doesn’t cut in on is path, he just trots over it without touching it)
This is the 3rd short session with the RC – I often get a turn the wrong way before he spins to go the direction I headed. I’m having a hard time pushing in on the blind-cross line since I don’t have him driving ahead much either. But this time I did get 1 correct turn each way. (He has the start of some nice right and left verbals but I didn’t think I should use them here since we want the body motion cutting behind his line to indicate the direction change)
Adv Sit Stay with Toy – 7/22/20
So this is the game that I usually play early on with puppies, but I delayed it a bit with Kaladin since he wasn’t keen to tug for several weeks after I brought him home. Then I introduced it and he kept checking out or wandering off after dropping the tug. I took a break, consulted my notes from a Shade Whitesel seminar and realized I was more taking the toy than letting him drop it and he was really not interested in playing with those rules. Back to the drawing board for months with toy play. This is the first time I played it since then and am happy to report that it is better even though it still needs work. He offered 2 sits right away. Then he hesitated. For the next rep I had him chase the toy as a reward before trying for the sit-tug sequence again. He offers some downs, but I went with them since it was an offered, stationary behavior. On one of the downs, a squirrel runs across the road towards our neighbor’s yard so I waited to release until he looked at me and then had him chase me. He is slowly growing out of it, but he can be very fixated on motion – not to chase it, but to stop and stare. Since he didn’t budge from the down and then chose to look at me I figured that warranted a chase game as a reward.
(and thanks for the tip to release him to a tossed toy right before it hits the ground – those are definitely faster!)
