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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/2PjR6PSXrQ0Rocking Horse more distance with barrel and stacked tunnel- 8/21/20
Forgot the decel part for rotated sends (duh!) It does make switching the position easier
Thanks, Tracy!
I think “Here” will be come in and take the less obvious tunnel entry.
Kaladin is shaping up to have a really nice long stride so I won’t have time to say tunnel too and still get out of dodge.Julie
Tracy,
Question on the tunnel threadle verbal cue. For Min I was using sprinkler followed by “Here – Tunnel”. So the sprinker was the heads up that a turn off the path was coming. The here was actually the “and we’re threadling to the other side of the tunnel”. So for this would I use “Here-Tunnel” or is the tunnel redundant? I don’t think I use “here” for anything else other than a tunnel threadle. “Come” is my jump threadle cue.
Julie
Rocking Horse with Spider Ball -8/19/20
Gave him a few days off the wrapping stuff since I had done multiple shorter sessions last week playing around with rewards and what I was sending him around. So today added more distance between the items. Sending nicely when I step forward. Used spider ball since it was warmer out and he stayed engaged. Tried some rotated sends. He very obligingly sat and watched while I sorted out what I wanted to do next on these since they tend to confuse me when it’s not a jump there (I cropped some of this handler indecision out but he sat the whole time, looking up at me and turning his head as I muttered and moved my arms around.) And apparently my house is trying out for the role of leaning rambler of St Louis Park.
Serp & Threadle with Motion – 8/18/20
We did separate sessions with serps and theradles yesterday. This is the first time we did them both in the same session. He’s thinking hard on these. The first threadle session he hesitated on releasing on the come cue so I did one without motion. This time he was more confident about it.I Love how Contraband rolled over when the caption of Team Chill came up.
Eat it means get treat/meal in the dish. It’s been reinforced a lot with his meals.
