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We are no strangers to this form of this game! Great game!! This game is a huge part of my warmup routine with the boys and will be with the little one also.
I took her to a new area, my driveway and that is her food bowl with actual food in it!!! Very high value. I do think I started off a little to close. I realized this and moved away. I also think I was asking for a little too much duration, as I started getting offered stays and other behaviors. Is this the key with her to get a stay😂😂😂?!? Don’t ask and you will get, ask and you shall not have 😂😂. I tried to ease up on the duration a little.
Overall, very impressed with the TAZ devil and her focus!!! She’s turning into a worker bee!Such cool stuff!!! Brought this toy out and she wasn’t to keen on it! We haven’t played with it in quite awhile. One pass through the Magic tunnel and it’s like being served a steak! Love this stuff!! So cool to watch the value change!
Reinforcement from behind. A little internal conflict to go behind as the mama is a valuable thing now or maybe it was just not knowing what I wanted! She improved each rep I thought! A little difficulty with the drop it here. Not usually an issue though.
Yes!!! I love all this!!!
>>That is good to know, and we can plan backwards from the finished behavior. It sounds like this will eventually become a 4on behavior, where she drives to the end of the board independently of you, not looking at you (this is key) and with you anywhere except facing her (because we never really face them at the end of the teeter, we are always moving somewhere or behind them).
This spoke to me so much!!! So many times I am not thinking about
how to get to end behavior but instead how to start from the beginning with goal of the end. BUT I don’t really have a clear path laid out on how to get there! How much easier will it be on me and her If I take the extra steps to plan it ALL out!!!>>One more idea:
Use your marker words, don’t say yes 🙂 Yes is a little too general and causes her to look at you – and using the premise that everything between the click (the yes, in this case) and the reward gets reinforced, then the looking at you after the yes and before the catch will get reinforced and you will get looking at you as part of this – which is probably not something you want on teeter behavior.SOOOO True!!!
Wow!! I learned so, so much from these lessons. Left to my own devices, is when I mess up lol!!!
Absolutely Love the manners minders Ideas!!!
This class is the bomb!!! I really can’t thank you enough!!! I do love geeking out on this stuff!! I have a dog now that requires it, but every dog deserves the clarity!!!
What a better trainer I am becoming with my Agility University classes!!! Promise and I are having a blast and wow I’ve already seen major changes in her!!! We when win Nationals (LOL!!!) I’ll be proud to say it was because of Tracy Sklenar!!!Building value for food. I don’t really have a problem with food being valued on my person over toys, but I do have an issue with her finding the manners minder valuable! I know, it’s a quite a shocker for me also!!! A Sheltie that values toys over the food robot lol!!!
So I came up with this game to hopefully make the food robot a little more magnetic to her! Her most favorite game is a chuck it and a tennis ball so hoping this will make it a little more valuable! Nit pick awsy and let me know what I could do better :)! Hopefully I did not deviate to much from the intention of the two previous lessons lol! Sometimes my perceived good ideas aren’t ideal 😂!
HaHa, I need to join team Fake Chill!!! The struggle is real!!!
I used the target mat for her installations shaping game. This is her first time outside with it and with me standing. I wondered about the reinforcement word that I chose to use. I am looking for just a head interaction, not necessarily a nose touch and wanting sustained interaction. It will be used for teeter training. I used get it as a reset.
Yes!!!Slow down is a for real struggle for me😂!!! Maybe even harder for me than my baby😜. She’s a great dog for me! She’s teaching me so much!
Placed reinforcement
Sometime between the first day of this and the second, I broke her circle wrap lol. She may have been conflicted because I had her super tasty treats salmon treats the second time on me or it may have been the holding her by the collar. It may have been just her too! She does value the chasing me over the placed reward. Interested to see what you think. I left with a few more reps than I would have normally because of this. The second day I’m using using the black sheepskin tug. She really was a rock star with the tunnel and the reward. She had a few fails, but mostly she was so great in ignoring that tug. Great impulse control little girl!!!
In general, I do find that she has more focus/value on chasing me than the placed reward. This even comes about with the treat n train also. Hoping to get a little more focus on the reward sometimes. For example, I have had issues with the max pup 2 serpentine training because she just blows by the reward and then gets frustrated. My motion has been a very distracting factor for her in our training, even if my motion is just a few steps LOL!
I’m back!! After a trip a way and all the holiday fun we were both excited to get back to training this a.m. Promise also went into heat last Monday, so it’s been a fun filled week lol!
This session was soooo informational for me!!!! I was so impressed with her! She was pushing it on the stay before this class and it was an issue that was causing a lot of frustration for both of us! She could not do the tunnel with a toy with the same distance, but I was soooo impressed with her and food. I got much farther than I would have ever thought. You gave me some great tools and insight with this exercise!!!
Alright, this is very timely lol! I went out to film your other class and Promise was completely overaroused and I was unsuccessful in getting her out of that state. I did the cookie reset, but she would then launch right back into her previous behavior. She was trying to snatch the toy and jumping up and being a total hellion😂! She was not satisfied she did not earn the toy! Her fuse was a very short one today.
What do you suggest in these situations?I’m not positive I did this correctly! Take away the other wing and I get all kinds of confused. She did great! Hopefully I trained the correct thing lol!!!
I will probably skip the threadles for now with her!I’ve enjoyed the class and have been surprised at all she can do! she wowed me 🙂
>>When you did the ‘all done’ and walked away, she grabbed your pants – that might be a frustration behavior because ‘all done’ might actually be a negative punisher (withdrawal of access to reinforcement). So even if you are walking off to give her a cookie, you are withdrawing access to positive reinforcement in the form of the action games, agility, etc. I personally don’t have a specific ‘all done’ cue for that very reason 🙂 so you can play your way off rather than indicate to her that the party is over. Then after playing your way off, you can go to treats, maybe toss some in the grass so she can sniff around to reduce her heart rate and begin to relax.
Good point. This is a new thing I was trying on suggestion of an owner of a relative from her line. I have not done this previously with my dogs. They just understood when we were done. I think tossing the kibble will be a nice way to calm down and destress.
No, she does not like for her fun to end! She probably doesn’t care for the word lol!>>Tugging then drop the toy to the cookie combo: what types of treats did you use here? She did a great job going back and forth between tugging and food! I think this went really well and she appeared to actually be *patient* in the transitions – didn’t grab the toy until cued, ate the cookie, got back on the toy – NICE!
This was just kibble, but I find that kibble is not as effective bringing her out of temper tantrums lol. I will keep practicing with her hierarchy of higher value treats till I can use all the things.
This is a great game! Unknowingly, I did this with Potter my novice A dog, and it I had beautiful results with him. I have a specific trial bag with the treats and it is always laid at a spot outside the ring with the dog at my side. And I say let’s go afterwards!!! I will have an easy time with this one lol!! I plan to do the same with Promise.
My first training session was great! We had a moment where she would not leave the reward and was throwing a fit and then a huge break through. I went to go shut my camera off afterwards and it was not recording!! I hate that lol! This was our second session. Some time in the first session when she was barking at the chair, she started included the barking. This game was not a concept she understood at first! Must not leave reward lol! Then she got it. Unfortunately I captured none of that LOL! This is a good game for her for sure!!!
I thought she did great!
Hopefully I did this correctly! When I remove the other wing and bar somehow I manage to get so confused on which direction I’m supposed to go. The first video I made was awesome backs but I realized I was doing a front with it😂😂. Oops. Hopefully I’m correct in my motion here.
I think it’s awesome advice!!! So proud of my smart baby girl!!! Also proud of me!!! Rears are my weakest link😂😂!!! Hurray!!! And yes she makes me think I have to go sooo fast lol! Will practice again with all the suggestions 😊.
No worries about me layering too much! I’m a layering chicken😂.
We can’t wait to start your reinforcement class either🤞😊!!!I haven’t taught promise the rear on the jump yet! Hopefully I didn’t muck all this up lol! I use switch for my rear cross word. I used cross here, but I rewatched again and saw you use directional. Are they your soft turn directionals? I’m trying to use both arms in teaching this.
Sequence. https://youtu.be/OSk37OX0Kqw
Wondering if I’m a tad early with my cross command verbal and hands. Also wondering if I’m just doing rears and don’t realize it🙈.
