[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Here’s the next step of the Minny Pinny and a couple of stays with toys. I tugged him back to the start for rep 2 and did some more tugging which I edited out.

The big lug is going to be 10 months old tomorrow. The weather is supposed to warm up a lot, which is going to help everyone’s sanity and get us out of the house!

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Letting the threadles sit for a while.

Minny pinny – baby level – his favorite thing- circling 🙂 Next time I will orient us the long way in the room if using a toy.

Then we did some easy stays. Judge has taken Nancy’s 6 week start line stay class, so in the sterile basement environment, these were easy for him.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

A longish session today – I actually had a holiday today and the high temp was -8, so had to keep everyone entertained inside. Shockingly, my almost 10 month old Mal was driving me up the wall…

Trying to wait a little longer on the click for the threadle slice. Then we did some motion to the threadle wrap and then the 2 barrel game. I cleaned up the area a little and there’s a bit more space.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Back to the threadle wrap with your next steps. And revisiting the threadle slice after letting it sit for a few days. I think it was better.

It’s cold and we have snow, so we’re inside now. Going into the deep freeze – highs below zero. I laugh – moving the inauguration inside due to cold. Um 20 ABOVE. But I remember living in DC and pretty much dying at 20 above.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Here are the baby steps of the threadle wrap on the trash can. Not sure why I failed to mark with search half of the time – bad mom moment.

This is all we did today – it’s is above freezing, so I used my lunch break to take him outside to play.

Despite his size, he seems to like these wrap games.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

I made the suggested adjustments to the 2 exercises. I have a hard time telling if that threadle is getting any better… He seems to like the backside one though – more moving 🙂

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Don’t let that sun in the window fool you – it’s below zero out there. And I’m in a week long work conference which is hard on the adolescent dog too. Got some training done on the lunch break
Did the same 2 games again. Started using my backside slice word – “back” and starting taking a couple of steps.

Then the threadle slice – trying to click at the correct time. Timing is hard as the space is so small. Today, I thought he had better turns on my left hand. We started on my right hand because that has been the side he struggled less on.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Thanks for that analysis and the reminder to JUST STOP. I went absolutely psycho.

Started the backside slice – baby level tonight.

Then decided to be brave and go back to the jump threadle. Judge seems to have forgiven me. Putting the MM right in the middle did the trick. Interesting – I did notice that on my left hand, he turned wider – I though he might go around the upright, so maybe he does turn a touch tighter or is more fluid on my right hand. Did 3 reps per side, he was great. Quit to make sure this is the set up you had in mind and then where to go from here. I tried really hard not to move!

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Revisited the threadle which was a disaster. This morning I started on my right hand. he had 4 good reps, so moved top my left hand and he absolutely cannot do it. I quit and decided to try again in the afternoon -tried to make it look different – had him on the other side of the room and still can’t do it. I did 2 on my right hand to try to help him and then went back to the left – no. Then he was getting sticky and stopping to stare at the MM. I feel like the MM is causing problems.

I don’t feel like he has a strong dominant side that I can really tell and he does not usually have so much trouble switching sides in exercises.

I can see I’m still shaking my hand too early – I need to pay better attention to that.

Also did a few wraps this morning with the clicker so he could end on a good note.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Thanks for the videos!

We did the baby levels of perch work (he’s well versed in this). Both on and off the bowl. When off the bowl, he does have one side that is not quite as physically strong and he tends to try to sit. He was getting better, but we have not done a ton of this recently. He’s also really good at side stepping and staying with me and we have done a little start on backing up with me.

Baby level strike a pose for the jump threadle. He has worked with a MM before (not a ton, but it’s not novel which you can’t tell from the way he looked at it. lol). He was doing really well on one side then toward the end of the reps on the second side, he started skipping the jump and circling, so I think he was bored. Bad mom, too many reps.

Then the baby level 360 wrap with stanchion. He had done this before, so not new to him – showing you the baseline.

A little off topic – I used the superbowls for him (from MYOB) the other day in the parking lot of Cabela’s (a place we go to train other skills) and he did not even notice 2 guys who were talking about 7 parking spaces away from us (of course, he noticed them, he sees everything, but he was able to MYOB). And he had a terrific outing. Typical of the breed and his age, he’s hypervigilant. People don’t really bother him, but not watching them is not easy.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

We went back to the beginning threadle move with me using the opposite arm which is my cue.

Then I tried out some of the SSC with adding a slice – noise. For some reason my iPad could not access my own agility videos, so I search for agility videos – all end up quiet. I search for flyball videos and they had music over them. So I could not find any barking dogs (seriously). So it’s some random dog trial associated noise, but not what I wanted. Did some cookie recalls and then more of a pattern and working on eye contact. He was fine. I’m thinking of adding a dog on the table for his next slice. I can borrow Burst who will behave and be less exciting for him.

The serp has been sitting for a few days, so may try that tomorrow. And look at the new lesson.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Winter is back – really cold out, so we’re back inside.

Worked the serp a little- trying to focus on me being at the exit wing. He did well on the slice tonight.

Then we worked on the remote reinforcement. He has worked on this before, but not super recently. His marker is “candy”. I am waiting for eye contact from him before we move away from the jar. Then we did a few steps of walking and graduate with a simple sit behavior.

Thanks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

The one Cato did move- the tip was on the low setting – he loves to slam that thing – I could raise it. It will be a while before we can move all that outside!

I repeated the serp session today – I think I angled the jump correctly to make it a bit easier (I’m not good with spatial things – why I don’t course build). I just did a few reps of the slice. he only had the one mistake today.

Thanks,

Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Happy New Year!

We tried out the S**%pile – I wasn’t sure of you wanted to see video (it’s the first 3 minutes of the video). Big dog needed a big pile. The only little lips in the video were him hacking up a treat, me dropping stuff and getting more treats.

I tried to start adding some motion to the serp – he had some questions on that at the beginning so I dialed it back to stationary and then tried to add a couple of slow steps.

It’s cold again, but at least no snow!

Thnaks,
Joan

[agilitywawa]

Hi Tracy,

Yes, I cut the the start of the rocking horse out from yesterday. Today I moved the barrels out farther and he did better – he has one rep where he rips the toy out of my hand on the send. So then I folded it to make it a bit easier, then let it out again.

We also did the next step of the threadle wrap – a little motion. I use the opposite arm for Dellin’s threadle wrap, so planned to stay consistent with that.

Thanks,

Joan

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