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I have to say I feel like this was latent learning hard at work! We haven’t worked a ton of backing up recently and I’ve felt like we didn’t really make tons of progress in the sessions we’ve done.
I think there was a real lightbulb moment here when I turned the mat up against the shelving and she realized she could back up and actually feel it under her feet! In addition to the backing up I could really see her thinking more about her foot placement! 😊
Here’s our 2nd session of Rotated Sends…. Here’s where I start to overthink things. 🤣🤣🤣 I don’t know why I tried to send her in both directions with the same hand and clearly neither did she….
That said I was really very happy with her backward sends which I feel I managed bit to overthink.
So this class has really helped me better plan my training and find opportunities for short training sessions. I’ve been trying to do a few minutes every mornin morning before I get too wrapped up in my work day. I’m also writing in my planning and training journal again after nearly two years of going dark! So thank you. 💕 …. Enough of that let’s get back to class!
Finally got a few minutes to work on some Rotated Sends. After watching this first session I made some observations. When I was doing these I don’t think I knew why she was going in different directions around the barrel. When I watched it seemed when I sent with my dog side arm she wrapped away and when I used the opposite arm she wrapped towards me. There were a few exceptions but I think body position may have impacted this. I find this pretty interesting to watch as I had been wondering how I would ever get her to wrap away from me…. I could not seem to even get her to do it around a cone.
This brings up some questions…. Should I be sending her with a particular hand in the rotated sends? Should she be going a certain direction? Should that direction be different based on the hand I use? When do I start using directional verbals? …. And of course *ugh* do they have to be absolute? I’ve always taught relative directionals….
Anyway here are our first session:
Wow!!!! Thank you for this! The slides were so helpful in seeing the differences with proper connection and timing. 🤩🤩🤩 …. And I feel a bit less like I broke my puppy. 🤣
…. And lastly for tonight one of our first sessions of Rocking Horse Games outside. 😊 I don’t know why she wants to just keep zooming around like we’re post turning. I just can’t seem to connect for the front cross between the barrels! I feel like we did this better months ago b and now she has so many questions!
Hi there!
We did some more work on our Turnaways but I feel like maybe I’m using the wrong hand to turn her with…. You videos look like you are using your opposite arm, not the dog side arm. 🧐 Am I even doing it right???
Twigs and paper! 😆😆😆 I can’t imagine having a whippet for just that reason They sure look FUN and FRAGILE!
A social of that many Bostons would be a bar room brawl. 😂
Anyway here is concept transfer 1. I finally got the pool noodle rigged perfectly…. Started off well and then she thought maybe she was supposed to foot target. 😅 In her defense that’s what the frog hat was for!
So as you can see, I removed the noodle and now have a naked bar. I know that isn’t what we really wanted but now she is trotting over it again instead of foot targeting. Should I attempt to put the noodle back? I can also use a small jump bump if that’s better.
Finally we worked a bit more on backing up to an object. The session I didn’t record was actually quite good and then I got this…. Avoidance and still won’t back up straight. I guess I should go back to working on the flat? Can I use my clearview panels to straighten her out?
Thanks for all the feedback!!!
We went out and did some handling combos yesterday before the storm rolled in. Thought of you as they were having a big whippet social at our training facility! So many whippets running, flying and catching discs! It made for a great training distraction. 😆
Rory did well considering all the environmental factors and a different barrel type. Honestly she was mostly unphased! She was still “offering” the barrel a bit so I tried to do some restrains to keep her on track with what I was asking for. In general she’s been weird about letting me restrain her so this in itself was actually great progress and she seemed to find the release pretty fun and drove out of it nicely.
Afterwards we did plenty of toy play and later did a second (unfilmed) session with a LONG tunnel. Verbal sends and tunnel threadle held up well and are a fun way to end our session. 😊
When traffic and bridge closures shut down your attempt to get to puppy manners class make lemonade! Here’s a very impromptu and informal session of Retrieve Games. 😊
….. and the return to Goat Tricks after the last session where moving things had become poison. I think we’ll with these a bit more before adding in any noise. Happy to see her interact with the tippy board and wobble board again.
Hi there! I feel like we’re playing a bit of catch up here…. We did get out to work a bit more on some things that require a little more space to move. Here’s a little Collection Sandwich! We starting off with just the decel and then added in the blind. She was a little naughty in the beginning trying to jump at my MCH. 😆
We also worked a little Turn and Burn. We did this on wings since we were out at a local training center but I probably should have removed the extra wings. It didn’t bother her but probably was extra stuff not needed at this time. 🙃
Evening session on tunnels…. She’s got a pretty awesome verbal tunnel send! Probably 15-20 feet right now. Again, not sure my reward placement is good as I’m rewarding when coming back to me with food. I can reward away by throwing the toy but I can’t place it on the ground quite yet for reward without her stealing it. Should I tried a lotus ball for food or use my manners minder for rewarding the tunnel sends?
Tunnel threadles went Great! I’m glad I saw your note that the threadle verbal comes later because I wondered about that!
Well here is Rory’s favorite lesson outside of the frog game. 🤣
The tiny tunnel lesson was a big hit! I did some with toy and some with food but I’m not sure the reward placement is right (story of my life!) and I think I’m adding too much motion using the toy. Thoughts? We did baby level in the morning and then advanced before dinner.
This morning we did a flash nose target session with a can cover and that worked 100% better! I gave no idea why but that’s what we’ll be using in class tonight!
I’m glad to hear our rear crosses aren’t a complete mess! We’ll definitely take this game outside for our next session. In the meantime I tried to back down a bit on the movement PLANKAROBIX and used a small wobble board and rocker board. She wouldn’t touch them. They are now lava. 🤣🤣🤣 So in put them in there living room and the other dogs thought that was the greatest! FOMO finally won out and Rory is putting her feet on them again. She didn’t even want to touch the Versaplank! I may post some video of this later but in preparation for tonight’s class we are working on our nose target. This was hilarious as she did just about everything but touch the cardboard square with her nose. I’ve taught her a few different hand games (touch, high five and working in wave). I think the “wave” trick is stuck in her head and she just wants to slap everything now. 😂 Anyway, we took a little play break between sessions and then I tried just doing a nose touch with an empty hand. As soon as I picked up the card it was back to slappy feet…. 🙃
