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I played around with this for a few gos this afternoon. I had her run to the food clam on the ground. I could get it to the entrance of the wing without any jump ups or barks. Behind the wing was too far and elicited a jump up or growl.
I may have still been too exciting with my verbals.
I can’t complain much about the wraps exits. She was wide with the first attempt with the jump but seemed to fix it the next rep on her own. I can’t help but feeling frustrated with the two wing wraps though. I tried the water bottle and even without I know my arms were locked, but she kept up the jumping behavior regardless. I had a hard time holding the toy, water bottle and her reset cookie which she needs badly still. I even tried the wings where I don’t have to take a step and she would jump up still. She did start out more aroused today than I would have liked. She struggles so much with her mindset and arousal😞.
Wondering if I should just let it go? It seems if I balance lots of go’s she doesn’t present the behavior. For example her class behavior wrap was perfect. I’m really at a loss sometimes on what to do with her.
Wondering also if I should try just food rewards for a little while?
Haha! Well, I got quite the surprise! When I read the title I did not expect to see you with an actual drink in your hand😂😂! Good thing it’s evening and I wasn’t drinking my coffee😂. Yes, I believe you are on to something! And it’s interesting how I don’t fling for the first rep but do for the second😂😂! I will give it try tomorrow, with water not my coffee yet lol!
Why does this dog insist on pushing me so hard😂! I get away with NOTHING! She has instituted nothing in life is free for me😂. She’s one of those dogs that changes everything.
Hi! Skipping to planning and implementation. I NEED a start line stay. I’ve been blessed before and my dogs gave me a good one with very little work. Not happening this time lol! So I choose to work on this as my planning behavior.
End result- I want Promise to go between my legs, sit and then hold her stay till I say Free
A- shhhh or saying place
B- rewarding the stay with either cookie, catch, or release word then get it, or release and shhh
C- meatballs in this session😊. I upped the reward a ton. I realized yesterday that she thought kibble was just not worth the wait😂. I could not use a toy also in the session, because I discovered meatballs are the key to life😂😂. We will have to work that behavior separately.
I also have plans to use other tennis ball all on its on. That is also a super high value reward. The chuck it is all powerful. Too bad I can’t run in the ring with one 😂.So here it is. I did change things up with reinforcement commands. Hopefully that’s ok. Since it is a stay I thought this was important. One question on the cookie reward. I wasn’t quite sure if this correct command. I want to reward duration of position, but I don’t not want cookie to mean move. All the other reinforcement commands signal moving from position. Sometimes when I use cookie for instance to start another behavior it does not signify this, it just means come to me to start another behavior. Am I overthinking this and she’ll figure it out or do I need a separate word to mean you’re getting rewarded but do not move??
Also, I wasn’t sure on always starting with shhh, so I did say place a couple times. I did not want her to think shhh was the place command.
Trying to fix her default behavior of offering a down as I say wait and step away. I thought it was cute, but it was just not working. I thought hard about this yesterday. She was moving “offering the down” when not asked which in turn made her think she did not have to stay since she was choosing the down, not me.
Also hate I had to miss zoom, my middle daughter had a concert. Go Band!! They were wonderful.
This is great!!! This is all such fascinating stuff!!! What an informative session. Running is a huge value for her, but for reasons still unknown to me these barrels became crack to her after a couple of sessions with them in max pup 1. My little girl with her BIG opinions is teaching me a lot. Like they say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger😜. She may still kill me though, at least it just her toys for now 😂.
Can’t wait to play with this and see what happens.
Skipping ahead to leash as toys as it’s a nasty rainy day here. Left this video a little long. At first she was somewhat interested, but not fully interested. Chasing and Grabbing, but not grabbing fully and not really interested in “strike” or get it. I brought out her laundry hamper wraps as these have huge value for her. Holy smokes… talk about transfer of value😂😂😂. She still was not fully into strike with it. I did run into a little problem of her “extreme value for the wraps” and not as much for the leash and got some lip for it. Interested to see what you would do here and if I did the right thing as I got screamed at😂.
Rewatched and now I am thinking her “attitude” was about the strike really.
My tiny girl with her big feelings!!!😂
>> Yes, a little – I think you were making it progressively harder, rather than gradually harder. What I mean by that is there was not enough of a ping pong effect where you did an easy one then a hard one then n easy one then a hard one. Each rep was progressively more challenging, so she had a little more trouble like with the repeated hand touches (she was like, why do you want another one LOL!) and then from no lead out to a pretty long lead out (she was pretty good, just a little butt lift then she put it back down).
Yes the ping ponging was my mistake!!! I really have to consciously think about doing this to do actually do this.
Remote reinforcement
I feel I struggled with this game. I also Did NOT have enough coffee this a.m.
We had a fabulous, fabulous first session, but I forgot to hit record again😫. Blessing in disguise, because she built up a lot of value for her pink bag and I had a much harder time with it in this session. Everything was ok at first and then I started getting harder and lost her.
I feel like I turned this more into a distraction exercise by the end of this video 😳lol!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!
