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Oh yes Maroon 5!!! The drummer is from Louisiana. I think they have played at Endymion twice. It’s open to the public with presale tickets😉. Seminar than Endymion ball next year?!?!
I am trying sooo hard not to say anything, ugh it just comes out! She is so sensitive to it! I might need duck tape, but then I couldn’t get my verbals out😂.
I may need a video for the rear cross arm cue! Is it in max pup??? I kinda do one now with a shoulder drop on one side and a sweeping motion with pickup arm.
I’m sure your reward placement advice will help clean it all up!
We are back! I had a great time in Florida! I had enough roller coaster rides to last for my entire life 😂. Mardi Gras was great and Maroon 5 was awesome at the ball😊!! I missed the zoom call, my plane took off earlier than I thought lol! I’m happy to be back and back to training!
Backside slices!!! I started with the jump as we had had previous experience with these in max pup I believe and course trends! I feel like I was really late throwing the reward, especially in the beginning. I do feel like I got better as it went on. The left was not as solid as the right was. I feel like she was anticipating a little when I started to test the verbals. Also, I had not tried out the left and right much with the rears yet. I did here and we will need some work on those. Overall, I thought she was great! I was also really impressed with her ability to recover after mistakes. She has come a long way😊😊😊!!! Yesterday was her gotcha day! Love my wild girlie! I made a short video of the year. So much max pup and Agility U in there😊😊! I’ve learned so much from you and Promise this year 😊.
https://youtu.be/3ezFkhjIMcE. Backside slices
Promise’s first year video
Come on down!!! The band needs more members! I know the band director will take more instruments 😂! Zoom from universal would be so fun! My family is huge into Harry Potter(potter, my dog lol)! I can’t wait to ride all the magical things!!!
Thank you so much Tracy! I’m so pleased with her on all these exercises! She’s going to be sooo amazing. Thank you for giving me the tools I need to get her there😊.
I will be doing Mardi Gras tomorrow and then going to universal next week with the band! So we will be on a training break for a week.
I’m still going to try to make some of the zoom call next week. I will be boarding my plane around that time so we will see😂.Promise gave me a gift today! 12 straight weaves!! Whoot whoot!
Training this dog to stay. Hardest thing ever! Weaves has to be the easiest time I’ve had with her. I used your weave class! Brilliant!!The good dog trainer showed up today! Unfortunately the bad videographer also did😂😂😂! I hate that!! Promise did really awesome with these. You’ll have to take my word on the first ones that I was adding motion slowly!
I clued in later on that I probably wasnt in view 😂. We stopped because she had enough reps and I was out cookies! A good way to force me to stop😂😊 https://youtu.be/UgPM0B6IEg4
If you want the 1000 and one ways to screw up this exercise I probably have live footage!!! Once I got everything straight success!!! Luckily I started with food, and rewarded inappropriately with my incorrect setup so no harm😂😂. Here is footage with what I believe to be the correct position of the wing jump and the correct verbals 😂😂😂. We will see lol!!!
Oh and her threadles are super nice 😂🤦♀️! It helps on this exercise when you have the wing jump in front and not behind🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️.
2 jumps! I knew she was a right sided dog before this. Further proof lol! I tried to do the bell curve with her on this as much as possible. The left turns with motion were not happening today😊. Also I felt like she may have been curling in too much on those go’s. I’m trying not to mark the mistakes but oooh is out of my mouth before I realize it! At least I’m recognizing that. That’s the first step right😂😂😜?
Yes, the weave training has been another light bulb moment with her for me. If I only knew all these things the previous year with her lol!!! I think for quite awhile I was not using food as much as I could have with her. She’s really my first sheltie that is toy driven. I worked super hard on that with her as a puppy. She was much more food motivated at first than toys(Hello Sheltie). I would lose her toy focus sometimes with food and I think I was just scared to use the food. I really did need to use the food though!!! When Breeze got injured in your previous class and Promise took his place was when I really started to see a change with her. You suggested the reset cookie and that changed a lot for her! Her reinforcement rate also has to be EXTREMELY high(as should all dogs)!!! I was able to get away with not being as consistent with my reinforcement rate with my first two shelties(Potter is an absolute Saint of a dog) but Promise says she will only accept the best trainer lol!!! No sloppiness allowed!!! I have adding food A LOT more to my training sessions and I’m seeing much better results because of it. I have also not seen the loss of toy drive with her either! Im starting with food with all things right now to teach a behavior and then adding the toy after the behavior has a general understanding. I’m seeing much better results.
Finally here is a list of my verbals
Extension: GO– take the line of jumps in front of you as fast as you can leaving me in the dust- center of bar
Over– take the jump relatively straight. Can also be a very slight curve. mostly center of bar
Get Out- change leads and go away taking obstacle away from me. center of bar
Turn cues:
Wraps- check check check- wrap jump 180 to right-jumping right near wing
dig dig dig- wrap jump 180 to left-jumping right near wing
left- turn 90ish degrees to left nearish wing
right- turn 90ish degrees to right nearish wingSwitch- this is my rear cross cue. I do have big questions on this after last nights
video chat. I do realize it is a “VAGUE” cue. Rears are more and more being presented in different ways. It was my word for either side too. Wondering what to do on this????backside slice verbal- back back back wrap around backside of jump and take bar at a slice angle going in new direction
backside wrap verbal- wrap wrap wrap. come in close to wing and wrap 180 back
Threadle slice- in in in come in between jumps and take jump at a slice
Threadle wrap- haha I need this in my life!!! will think of a word. Probably will steal Carrie’s and Jamies lol
Tunnel threadle–here here here. take opposite side of tunnel you are presented with
Go tunnel. take tunnel and extend out on line
tunnel- take tunnel
free- release word
READY- automatic down, when you do I lead out and we get the party startedOf course she has all the toy reinforcement words and many other things. Im too lazy to list them all. The toy reinforcement words helped a ton with her. Another game changing moment with her. One thing with the treat n train too was I changed its reinforcement word to snacks. When I said get it she was looking for toy and that was causing some frustration with the sloooow to deliver food robot.
Sorry for the book!!! Today is a day of rest for puppy!!!
——-She had more trouble towards the end of the session, when you were doing the wing wraps to the left turns. I think that was more arousal-based. That is something you’ve seen – when arousal is higher, she has more questions and errors (totally normal!!). So here is an idea: set up your session as a bell curve. Start with a couple of easy reps to each side, as a bit fo a warm up. Then, before the arousal kicks in, do a couple of harder reps (the start wrap to the left turns with you moving a bit more were definitely harder!) Then after a couple of reps, wind down the session with a few easier ones, similar to what you did at the beginning (like the last couple of left turns you had on this video). That way, you work the harder stuff before the arousal kicks in fully. Then when she is really stimulated, you ask her is she can still do the easy stuff!——
Ohh I love this idea!!! I know it will work! It does works with her stays😊! Your stay class drove this point home to me with her! I will write this on my field guide! Unfortunately I didn’t realize about the field guide on this one lol! I clicked on the next lesson and it was the field guide😂! So helpful. Thank you for providing it.
Yes, she still struggles with her temper! I do feel like it’s getting better and I might not get eaten in the ring anymore, but we will see😜. I need to remember to be faster with the reset cookie.
The weave training with her has been sooooo good for her. She has to stay in a calm state to do it and she is amazingly doing it! She’s learning so much patience and I’m amazed the Tasmanian devil does not make its appearance during those sessions! For some reason she does not lose her mind. I’m following your independent online class. It’s probably the reset cookie that she gets every time with that. No frustration, lots of fun. Her new zen self is starting to surface in other places too😊.
See you tonight! Can’t wait.
I was really happy with this. Overall I’m really impressed with how well she knows her words!!! Hurray for max pup. Looking at the video I maybe needed to add more walking. It’s hard lol because she is so fast, she’s at the wing faster than I would think. I did reward inappropriately a few times too, but It’s seems no harm was done lol!!! She’s better with right than left. It was interesting that when I decided to loop back with a mistake I got the same jumping up behavior as the double wraps! It also interesting how I get louder and higher pitched with motion😂😂! That I might need to work on with her. I’m all zen walking and then I add motion and go up a few levels 😂😂😂.
Yes, I thought see like it better with my motion also!
She’s getting much better with the treat n train since I have been using it for her 2x2s. She has been getting more and more zen with it and definitely developing more drive to it.
Got home from the trial today and gave it try. I wasn’t sure what I would get because I’m sure she’s tired! I think she was better. The water bottle ones were the first we did. Then we did 2×2 weaves for a minute which really puts her in a good mind set! I then came back and then did the last reps! I whispered and locked my arms. I think it was much better! I left my happy skip at the end for you to see. I was so happy😊.
All that sounds good! I do think she was brain tired and just tired from the 2 previous days. She was really struggling with her stay also, which let me know she was in a higher state than I would like. I bought a timer to keep in my pocket for her and I need to use it lol! I will try the exercises right off the bat when I’m sure she’s in a good mindset and see what I get.
I do own the treat n train and the ready treat. The treat n train is not a magnet yet to her. I was unsuccessful with it in the past when I would try to use it with much motion from me. She would get frustrated with it and bite it or growl at it. The food delivery it offers is a little slow for her sometimes. I am currently using it in weave training (your class!) and her relationship is becoming much better with it. I haven’t seen the frustration with it that I saw previously. Of course I’m not having very much motion with that either😂. The ready treat she is better with it, so this is a tool I can use also.
