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Haha! I freaked when I heard “weave” from that ring and her head shot to that ring 😂! I saw my puppy crashing that NAC run and me being the most hated person there😂😂!
That was BIG for her to not bolt then! She’s under the impression all commands must be done even if not my voice or in view lol!!! tunnels especially causes her to go into overarousal if she hears people shouting tunnel and she can’t do it.
Here is a video of Annalise and potter from the trial site. It’s actually a hard trial site for a puppy I think! Wide open bars with people against them and then that walk way to the trial secretary with people walking their dogs down there to get ribbons or check scores. It Is not that crowded so actually a person and another dog walking is more noticeable than at the NAC that is a sea of people and dogs. She’s been there twice. Last time December.
My plan… I was thinking today what is my plan 😂😂?!?! I was thinking stays lol… see this is why I need you! I make everything too hard lol! Left to my own devices I would have her doing the weaves 😂😂🤦♀️. I will be using her black sheepskin right which has a long handle so she can chase it too!
Tunnels are her absolute fav and send her happiness into outer space. She loves Go lines too but this may be hard to attempt unless it’s paired with the tunnel since I have to keep toy on me. I’m thinking I will need the phone a friend or at least text a friend with you so we can make a plan with the course map.
I’m only in fast sat and t2b sun. Can I test a stay on Sunday 😂😂? I did enter her 8 inch preferred since we are not up to 12 yet.
Boo AKC for not allowing feo on all runs, but I’ll take it anyway lol! Way better than when I started breeze and potter and there was NOTHING!!!
This will actually be my first FEO because breeze and potter were pretty Rock solid when it came on the scene.Oh I forgot to update on a big issue for us, the car anxiety! Which also causes harness and leash anxiety. The trip was 8 hrs and 30 minutes. I spoke to the vet behaviorist before and she recommended cerenia every time she gets in the car for the next two months. The cerenia worked really well for no vomiting for her! We still had the foaming but that is the anxiety. The foaming use the be the whole ride, but now it’s just the start and we when get back into car after a stop.
Starting today my plan is to go out to garage and treat and play games. Her foaming starts when she sees the car so if I can break that I think I will have a much less anxious pup😊.Any ideas welcome on this! I did do behavior modification behavior before and it did work. The she would go on a trip and get sick and we’d go back to square one. I think with her being older this time it will work🤞🤞🤞!!!
We are back! I’m tired and Promise is not😂! What a spectacular NAC. Potter lived up to his perfect Potter name and ran three clean and came in 12th. He has been a dream novice A dog❤️❤️. I’m incredibly lucky. Our hybrid run was incredible and was the way I wanted us to go out! I won’t steal him from my daughter anymore😊.
Then there was Promise! Wow, she was amazing!!! Not much video, A couple clips from Friday, thanks to Jamie😊. The first hour there she was nervous, but it all went away with time. Every day she got better and better. The second day she was able to play with her toys! Saturday and Sunday she was able to tune everything out at the warmup jumps!!! She was able to work for her toy only late Saturday at the warmup with complete focus and was really awesome!!!
She did great at the rings too, which honestly I was really nervous about!!! Dogs running gets her pretty high. Handlers shouting too. She could handle watching for a short while and still stay focused! Which was a huge step for her. She did great in my arms too! This really helped if she became too focused or aroused on the dog in the ring running! I saw her tense up and I knew to back away and play a game. It worked great to keep her from getting too overaroused. The cookie game really helps to bring her arousal down. I’m not near as nervous about this Saturday’s FEO. She loved the environment and was excited about the rings and the equipment and was really sure she belonged in there😊. Can’t wait for her turn.
The videos are from Friday around noon I think. The next day I didn’t get any of the looking around at the warmup😊.
Thanks for the Good Luck! It’s my last hurrah with my very special boy!!! I’m looking forward to it!
I already have a training list and I haven’t even been to the trial site yet lol!!!
1. Practice people coming up to car to imitate drive through. Promise finds the random people very disturbing lol!
2. Play recordings of barking dogs. Jamie’s dogs barked on the phone with me and promise also found this offending!
I actually think the barking recording will help her in class environment and trial as she has always had an issue with barking dogs. Feel free to message me barking dog recordings!!! Please!!!3. Teach her to pee on command. Potter was highly offended by the lack of this as we stood in the rain FOREVER waiting for her to pee😂.
Haha! The feedback was not boring at all!😂 I realize this is my most important skill with her! I’ve never not had a start line that I’ve had to think twice about and intend to keep it that way 🤞! The stress I felt when she would break her stay and that was just training lol! I can’t imagine trialing that way lol!!!
Here is the line game with food and toy! Ignore my pajamas lol!
Chill games… can you guess that she isn’t really calm at all lol! This one made me think! I will need ideas!
Lately she has liked her head scratched and her chest scratched. I’m not quite sure if she likes being held lol… but she doesn’t seem to hate it anymore 😂😂. Her idea of bonding with me is attacking my shoelaces which happens 1002 times day lol!
I leave for nationals tomorrow and she gets to come along for the ride! Any ideas for games to play and things to do???
Lineup games!!! Well, we do this A LOT!!! It’s how I fixed my stay(Knock on wood)! I mostly do the lineup in the middle! She really enjoys the game. Except for the time I accidentally stepped on her fur or she is hormonal😂!
I mostly do food with this, but need to incorporate the toy too since that is what I will have for FEO. Here is with the toy. At first she was like “Hello! You forgot my cookie!!!”
Wanted to get this in today before class ends. I guess that is why I got the bright idea I should jump her at 10” today. I’m not sure why I decided that lol!!! This was her first time at 10, besides the jump height video. So for me throwing her in the deep end with this whole thing she did really well lol!!! We got a lot of bars which isn’t surprising since I added speed and height at the same time. She did fabulous with her words!!! I have done very little sequencing with her. I’m always super impressed when we do something like this and it goes so well!
This was filmed with long breaks. During my long breaks I need to watch my videos 🤦♀️🤦♀️!
I did break the wrap down at the end lol!
Haha suggestions and Rules are appreciated!!!
😊😊😊thank you Tracy!!! Her future is very bright!!! Her strong verbal foundation is thanks to you😊!
Can’t wait for the next classes!!! Camp!!! So fun!!!I will have to rewatch the threadle video!
I was at training field today and she got to be my demo dog for some students showing off her backside slices and she also showed off her wraps and soft turn verbal skills! She wowed them 😊 and me!
Yes, I’m trying to keep my priorities straight with the baby! It can be hard lol!
Terrible video Angle, but this was our start this morning. Hopefully I’m keeping my body right.
Also, I set this sequence up for Potter and ran Promise through it! She knows those words!!! So impressive!!!
This class has been so helpful! I wish it was ongoing 😊!
I had a feeling my positioning was wrong on the circle wraps! Especially on the left!! I will go back and do your suggestions!
Could you add the video on how to introduce threadles? I attempted the threadle exercise with Promise today. It was really hard for her. Unlike when I setup this exercise for the SERP🤦♀️ And she threadled it all, she did not do that today😊. She knows her SERP!! I feel like I probably need to start with the introductory threadle video first.
Editing this… I went back after posting the first video and Watched the left side. We did better than I thought, I was remembering no success lol. I still think I need to break it down more for her😊
For the life of me I can’t remember how I taught my previous dogs to threadle! Lesson to me, don’t wait 8 years again to get another agility puppy! You forget EVERYTHING 😂😂😂! I’m sure it’s all changed since then anyway lol!
Well she’s over the place behavior and is back to normal lol!!!
We went back to circle wraps which I had skipped. The right side was much easier for her than the left side. I wonder if she thought maybe I was rearing on the left side?
It’s been a long time since we visited our prop from max pup, but she did sooo well! I just want her to target it with her foot.
Toys are always laying around from her lol, and never seem to pose much distraction in training so I used food bowls which was definitely distracting to her, but I think that she worked through it so well! Let me know if I upped the game to fast! I could definitely add more distance to the bowls. They were really close.
Most likely she was not settled in the car. I did not hear any barking though which was good. Right now she is not settled in the crate in a strange environment period! I have better luck with her not reacting in the car, but the car is associated with A LOT of negative feelings!
I take her to this environment once weekly. She had not been in 3 weeks here due to weather and She definitely showed it. Yes, it’s very noisy there. Very noisy!!! So far I haven’t noticed the noise negatively affecting her. Breeze would be a different story there lol!!! It’s the other dogs mostly. I think she wants to go play with them. Unfortunately there is no division between the rings😞. The first time she went she took off after another dog and they had a 5 minute party chasing each other!
People also do not keep their dogs in crates and just keep them lined up on the side, some leashed some not. That so far has been a non issue when we are working. The issue has been when people take their dogs to fields next to me and start running their dogs.She had largely been doing much better! I even had people come into my area with their loose dogs while I was working🤦♀️🤦♀️ And surprisingly she did not lose focus! I’ve tried to talk to the the other people about staying away, but that’s a work in progress.
This environment is my only option as far as agility class down here. Any and all advice appreciated!!
