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I clearly underestimated the tunnel threadle and double whammy! It’s been weeks since we did tunnel threadles and I jumped ahead to the longer tunnel (3 foot to 10 feet). I think this changed the picture, she had to bypass the reward in my hand, and do the 2nd tunnel after the front cross. I guess this was ALOT and was a little hard (but great experience in delayed reinforcement!)
Should I go back to tunnel threadle verbal with the short tunnel before coming back to to 10 foot with the double whammy? I’ll never get the front cross on the 3 foot tunnel! 😂
Some threadle wrap warmups and some rocking horse games! I was thrilled to see her put this together. 💫
Here’s some threadle wrap work! The pressure of being between the barrel and me is definitely uncomfortable for her but I think we’re making progress. Also, using opposite arm for me is very HARD but I think I can see the benefits and I’m going to give it a shot. 😉
Wow…. It’s been 6 days since I uploaded anything so it may look like I’ve been slacking but we’ve actually been busy working backside slices, threadles and backside wraps! Since I’m behind I won’t overload you with the earlier stuff. Lol. Here’s a progress report on our backside slices! Pretty happy with these but need to work on getting a real “line up” cue to get her in position to start things! She loves to squirrel away. 🤣
Worked our backside slices yesterday at lunchtime. I found myself not moving up the line initially but I think that got better once I was aware of it. She did pretty well in all the positions! Again, are my mechanics correct here?
Is it ok to use my verbal?
Working our threadles!!! We both think these are pretty fun. Am I releasing too soon and with too much movement? Or am I supposed to remain completely still until she reaches my hand? It’s a little hard to stay completely still when you have to reach down to reward the smalls. 🤣 Do the mechanics look right?
On to perch work! Overall pretty happy with her rear foot movement when I moved into her so I tried to see if I could get it with reward placement to the side of her head and with less movement from me. Maybe independent turning comes later? Or is the goal just the rear foot movement?
Here is our first shot at the backside wrap foundation…. I have come to the conclusion that I really suck at using my non-dominant hand in training so pardon me while I completely confuse my puppy in the video as I try to turn her to the right. I thought this was because it’s her weaker side but mostly I think it’s a ME thing. 🙃
We finished up our training for the week with scentwork travel class at Home Depot. After Brodie and Darby completed their searches we did some resilience training and pattern games on our “tour” of the store. People, children, sirens and lots of weird Halloween and Christmas stuff for a puppy to take in! She did surprisingly well. 😊
It’s a little hard to see in this video but I’m finally starting to see her look ahead and focus forward in this exercise. I know it did some of this without a sit stay early on but probably should revisit.
This is another exercise where I have some trouble with reward timing. Still proud of her!
Good morning!
Trying not to inundate you with videos but headed out this afternoon for an agility workshop so if I don’t post now it might not happen!
I spared you the part where I was cueing the wrap in the wrong direction, closing my eyes and visualizes how it would look on a bar. 🤣🤣🤣 Poor Rory. This flatwork is a struggle for me sometimes. lol.
Anyway she did awesome on my right side but had an incredibly hard time on my left. We know what our homework is!
I’ve spent a lot of time overthinking directionals today. 😆😆😆 So if I need essentially a left and right for wraps do I also need them for backside wraps? Threadle wraps? Soft turns? HELP….
We did get in some more practice on our SERPs and parallel path. Here are our Serps:
I was happy with this work on parallel path commitment but again I’m unsure about my reward system and placement. Throwing food in the grass just doesn’t work so I used two treat huggers. Does this work? I have two treat and trains but putting them out there seems like setting a target. Is that ok? Or do I keep throwing the treat huggers? They work ok it just takes her a little time to work the treats out.
Today I rolled out of bed and before I even went downstairs I built a new ShPile! I worked to place some things so that they would move and the hula hoop has beads in it so it adds a little bit of noise to the equation. No big scary tippy board in this one either.
I made sure to get her amped up with some tugging first this time too. I’m sorry the video is a little long on this one but it thought it was really cool to actually see how much braver she got throughout the exercise. By the end of our session the movement of objects beneath her feet was almost a non-issue.
Added BONUS! Darby and Brodie also thought this game was a BLAST! 🤣
