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Definitely trying to improve on connection. The workshop on Sunday was great, I didn’t get to watch all of it live, but I’m going to go back through and review it. I tried the pregame with the water bottle yesterday. I didn’t even get soaked. Lol
We tried the Wind in Our Hair game today. I had the MM set out in front of the jump today. I thought he might be more excited about passing me to get to that than to go to a dead toy on the ground. It wasn’t our most brilliant session. Apparently I wasn’t being patient enough when I was sending him to the wrap and kept pulling him off. The other day, he was leaving me to wrap…today I couldn’t send him. Lol. I also lost him at one point when a vehicle caught his attention. I don’t know what was so interesting about that particular vehicle, but he definitely was intrigued.
We’re glad to back to training! Here is our attempt at the smiley face game. I have a couple questions. I am wondering if I was using the verbals right? I wonder if I should have been saying right or left on some of the start wings, instead of my wrap cues? I had a couple times where I lost connection and he went in the wrong end of the tunnel. I think he’s going to make sure I improve on this. LOL. There was also a part of the session where he just kept either anticipating the tunnel or the wrap. Do you want me to handle that differently?
Yes, the feedback made a lot of sense. He’s definitely stimulated by movement. So this is good for me to work on. 😊
I moved the jumó in closer and tried to be more connected. I think it went well. We had a couple bobbles but not like yesterday. Overall I thought he seemed more confident about what I was cueing, so I hope I did it right.
Ok we have a mess. Lol. Remember the jumping up at my hand when we did the tunnel threadles? Well, we’ve still apparently got that and now have added in not wrapping after he comes out of a tunnel, and also bipassing the tunnel when we do get a wrap and head back to the tunnel. I feel embarrassed to post this because it’s obvious he isn’t understanding what I’m doing, but for some reason I kept trying instead of stopping. I included all the reps, but cut out the tugging in between from the video. Sorry in advance it’s still so long.
The snow melted back off and so we tried the turn and burn on the wing today outside. I don’t think Dice had any problem transferring the concept to the wing. I rushed leaving on one rep and pulled him off, but other than that he was successful.
We will work the pin wheel again when the snow melts. We got a little snow the other day and I’m hoping it’ll be gone soon. Thank you for the clarification about spacing on the jumó bumps. 😊
We tried the motion on serps and Threadles tonight. I think it went really well except when the MM decided to get sticky. I fast forwarded through us fiddling with that part. Lol
Sounds good, I’ll try to incorporate the porridge game and the food. I think including the food with the sit will definitely work better. The arms are going to get better. I’m determined. Lol
Tonight we tried the Minny Pinny. He was doing well at this distance, (I started with just a foot or so between the jumps) so I was rewarding out of my hand. I scooted the wing out about 6 inches maybe for the last two reps and he did ok with that distance it seems. If you think it would be better to toss the reward out away from me, just let me know and I’ll go back to that instead. I also noticed that in feedback you gave to someone else, you suggested slowing down in giving the right and left cues, so I think I may have been saying them too quickly.
We tried the rocking horse pt 2 from class outside this evening and I am trying to get a little pause or a sit before just sending him right into the next rep. When I asked for a sit, I got barking and sometimes jumping. Once he just left me to go to do the barrel on his own. Is there anything you’d like me to adjust? Watching the video, I think I may be using my arms too much too?
Big arms and saying “yes” a LOT are deeply ingrained. 😂 This will be a work in progress. We’ll get there though. I think the taking a quick breath and waiting before starting the next rep of whatever game is going to be a good thing to work on as well.
OK, I realized we haven’t videoed the rocking horse yet either, so here is that one too. Looking forward to class tomorrow! Thanks again for the feedback.
Ok, we tried again today without as much flipping him away with my arm and we definitely had more questions from him. I tried some reps separate from the double whammy game but when I tried the double whammy game, he still obviously had some questions. I am not sure if I was doing something wrong or not. Maybe just more reps standing still on my part closer to the end of the tunnel?
We also tried the tight turn 360 game from a couple weeks ago. I think it went well, can we transfer this to the collapsible barrel or a wing now?
The snow in the field all melted off and we were able to set up the tunnel threadle and double whammy game today. I’m hoping to go back through some of the other games that we’ve been working on tomorrow.
Awesome, thank you! I was having trouble getting him to give the toy at one point. lol I’ll go back and work on the two toy games again and build back in more value for release as well as the tug. 🙂 Can’t say I’m sad to have this as an issue, I’m thrilled to see him engaged with the toy this much.
Yes, the feedback about breaking down the movement more on the race to toy makes perfect sense and I’ll keep you posted. Thanks again!
Ok we are going to be playing a bit of catch up this weekend I think. But we did manage to try the reverse retrieve yesterday. I also included where we are with the dead toy and racing him to a toy in the same session. When I race him to the toy he looks at me and not the toy. Do you have any suggestions? Should I not race him to the toy right now? On the reverse retrieve I think showed way too much motion on the second to last rep and pulled him off the toy. Other than that though I thought he did super!
Awesome, thanks! As we continue working on the threadles, should we mix in serps occasionally in the same sessions? I’ll work on improving the treat placement on the backsides. I have been trying reward more with the arm across the body on other games, so I think it bled into this one.
Tonight we worked on beginning remote reinforcement. Do you think we could add in some cued behaviors next time?
