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Enjoy our destroy the barrel session š. Heās sure my hand has something to do with itā¦ bite my hand, jump on the barrelā¦ just not sure mom. I switched to food to try to get him thinking more, which I think it did. I need to remember to keep my hands lower as he gets confused and thinks itās something to do with my fabulous cookie hands šš. Surely there are cookies in them right.
Wow, it is not often that I see a Golden clacking like he did at the beginning of the video! Ha! My whppets and whippet mixes clack like that, BCs sometimes clack. So I guess Quill is blazing a new trail in Golden clackers LOL!!
Oh yes! Heās an air snapper lol! Promise has hers on cue š. Something with my dogs š¤Ŗ! Heās been doing it from really young.
Toy races! He did really well! Iām so happy heās still chasing after the toy even though he had the food before! Thatās hard!
I do have taller barrels! A narrower hamper and a larger leaf! Iāll have them on standby for tomorrow!
The wobble board got harder as he got older as it has lots of movement now that heās much bigger! It makes a loud noise on the carpet because itās tile underneath! Since he was showing some hesitancy I put it on his old donut bed! I introduce the Sheltie sized fit paw which he had never seen! He did great!
The plank he has done in another class, but not turning around! He has no hesitancy there!
He is not scared of heights either lol! Ask me how I know š. Jessica did a fantastic job with these puppies!
Itās a shame that he doesnāt like food at all ššš! This is just his kibble lol! He did so good! My only issue was trying to not choke him or make restraining bad before I released him. That was hard š. Good thing he doesnāt care about being restrained to much lol!!! He had half of breakfast and then we warmed up with tugging. I was much better about remembering I have a right side too.
Collar grab! Quill is pretty good with all sorts of grabbing. We did toy and food! I was editing my video this afternoon and realized I only did it with my left side which Iām very guilty of doing lol! He was happy to add in some right side this afternoon. We still have some work to do on going through legs lol! Where did the cookie go lol?! This is promise and prytaniaās line up for agility! Probably time to teach Quilly too!
Very good suggestions for toy food play! He was majorly teething the previous month and I did not want to mix them since he had hesitancy and that would have been worse with his mouth! Heās ready now š.
For stealth control I wanted to see how that went with the cookie/toy a full session before the novel object. I fed him half of breakfast before we started and used one of his most favorite toys! I didnāt lose him till a later rep, (the remains of a stick on the floorš). I did forget to call his name! I was focused on my reinforcement marker word lol! Unfortunately (maybe)there is no low value food for him so I will have to probably do less food reps. I did have my treat pouch on and he wasnāt mugging it! Big win!
Took outside to do with two toys and more movement! This a game we have played a lot!
I think I can probably add the novel object next time š
Goat tricks! I havenāt used this platform, but shaping to a platform was actually the first thing I taught him! So this was easy, I may need to try a different object. The one thing that is not easy is switching from food to toy! I have recognized this so honestly I havenāt asked for a lot of it because I didnāt want it to become an āissueā. So weāve mostly kept separate but Iām ready to tackle now with your help š. I feel like he did pretty good here! He is definitely at the food needs to be elsewhere right now (which is was). He was just looking to make sure lol!
Quillās focus last night in the brand new environment was exceptional!!! I was SO impressed! I did some RZ zone out in parking lot while another puppy was working and he was not distracted once. Heās an exceptional puppyš. I hit the jackpot.
Here is his deceleration and turns. I had a bad cookie toss on the second rep and it had stuck to my fingers lol! So I cut out some of him looking for it š. No issues! He did great! Weāve done a lot of RZ zone from an early age.
Blind cross foundation. We were practicing with the older dogs and puppies got to play too at end. I didnāt get to watch the tutorial before but Carrie talked me through it. I thought I had done it wrong at first but I had toy right. Sorry, Annalise missed me switching sides on first rep.
Thank you so much for the detailed response above!!! Great things to follow!!! And yes itās easy to do too many reps with these little exercises.
Here is his focused forward with me running behind. He did great! I almost forgot to do the right side lol! Itās hard to throw left handed.
Wing wraps
Quill was happy to show off a little puppy frustration this morning. Cookies now!!! This was our second session. This is perfect, because Iād love to know how you handle this. First went without a hitch, took a brain break for tug toy then what is filmed. Normally with him, I have been doing cookie resets with him if he starts getting frustrated(demand barking). I stop at the first bark and throw a rest cookie. Sometimes his brain breaks I do the cu puppy pattern games he first learned instead of tugging and this really keeps him in a good mind set. Is this level of frustration ok in this training session or should I be aiming for aborting the training when he teeters into overarousal? I caused the demand barking at end because I did not give cookie because I said yes inappropriately. Bad trainer.should have given cookie. He demand barked for a little bit till I dropped a cookie in the bowl on other side. Iām still very much learning all Things arousal! Trying to do it right.Alright here is the rest. This is turn 2 and 3 with I think a 20 min break in between. She did have a loss of focus when there was a mistake(backside positioning proved difficult for handler) and it was a more difficult skill for her (rear). Third turn better. Also this was an easier sequence and she got the harder one at end (sort of lol)!
Amy
Hello!!! They did more than this yesterdayā¦ I just have to edit lol! Prytania does enjoy her go lines!
Here is first video
Amy
So sorry I dropped off the face of the earth! It rained and rained, then 7th grade DC trip! So fun!!!! Then cold caught on Dc trip that had me down and out for two weeks! Was only able to survive family life and work! No energy for trainingš¢! Thankfully after 14 days, I finally feel better!!!
But drumroll! Prytania had her first two feos this week and it was smashing!!! š. Incredibly proud of those two kiddos. Off to work today! Hopefully getting back on the training game tomorrow š.
First feo
Second feo
Only goal for meā¦ to be less soccer mom š³š¤£! Itās soooo hard.
Amy
