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Here is our 2nd session of prop game 2. I think lateral and backward sends are looking decent…. But UGH you’d think I had never taught a rear cross before. The prop just makes things so illogical to me. I spend so much time thinking about where to cross, what to do with me hands and how to reward. Help!!!
On to Prop Game 2. I’m really struggling with the rear cross concept on the prop! I keep watching the videos but it is sooo hard for me to envision without a jump bar and uprights. 🫠 I also think I’m flinging the hand that I’m awarding with (my dominant right hand). This seems too almost work when she is turning away to my left but is a disaster when turning right because I’m using the “wrong” arm. Should I be using the left arm here? Should it be subtle or recognizable? I really suck at this one…. No wonder she is so confused. 😵💫
1st lesson backing up tried with first sitting on a stool and then on ground. I think she starts grasping the concept towards the end. I thought the target mat would be useful but it didn’t seem to help much. Perhaps the biggest challenge was to keep her going backward in a straight line. 🙃
Thanks for all of this! I am trying to post my videos little earlier for this package.
I added more noise to the movement and noise game and turned things a bit upside down….. Rory was so confident on the Versaplank tippy board I tried her on the Cato tippy board. One tip and a bang and that became a MUCH larger challenge so it seems we need to work more on noise. Other surfaces didn’t appear to be too tough.
Here it is….
Onward to Games Package 2:
Here are some Next Steps in Wing Wraps where I mix up my Prop Game sends with my wrap foundations. 🙃 I guess I got a bit carried away.
Lastly some Goat Tricks with Movement and Noise. Rory loves these!!!
Looking forward to Class tomorrow night!!!
Thanks so much for all of the feedback! Rory and I flew to MA the day after the first class to visit my Mom. Lots of learning in the airport, a new place and great opportunities for resilience conditioning walks!
Here’s the latest “chapters” from our MaxPup video journal!
Prop Game Sends and Commitment. I thought these went well and reminded how much fun a Brodie and I had with this game. 😊 I have a hard time remembering to send with dog side leg and arm so I had to work on that. I also tend to forget the “Ready” game because she immediately want to drive to her frog hat. 😂
One more from package one…. Trying out the wing wraps with a toy reward. I need to remember to let her do the wraps independently and not with my motion. The struggle is real!
Last one for tonight is some beginner Goat Tricks. I promise we did the “on and off” game but it was on the fly and did not get recorded. 🙃 I did realize that I should be working more 360 degree turns on the plank rather than 180s at the ends of the board.
Rory seems to be doing well! I am doing what I can. lol!
Here is a compilation of Games Package 1 Games… Since we were working some of these things prior to starting the Live Fall Session you might notice we’re using a larger barrel and some of the more Advanced Game versions. Things I struggle to remember are to look her in the eye in forward focus games and that I need to try harder to “win” when racing her to her toy!
Again following directions is not one of my strengths so all input to clean things up is welcome!
Here we go! Pregame 1 Prop
Game Foot Target. I know I need to work the next step where I send her to it like we did in the first Live Class.……you are spot on about his tummy…. He had a pretty bad belly ache that I think could have been from snacks but more likely stress. 😕 I thought maybe it had settled enough by the last run but it really hadn’t.
What you didn’t see in the videos was that on day one I didn’t catch him at the end and he landed on his side on the turf. He bounced right back but that had to smart!
I am planning to have him sedated to look at his breathing apparatus and will be asking them to do some films of his hips, knees, shoulders etc as you suggested a while ago just to be sure everything is in the place. I should have brought him right to the massage therapist at the trial.
Anyway, I’ve very much appreciated your keen eye and helpful feedback during this course. I was telling a struggling fellow competitor at the trial that she really needed to check this class out! 😊 I’ve also recommended MP1 to several friends with new pups. I can’t wait to see what they do with you!
Thanks again for everything and will be looking forward to the next opportunity to work with you.
Happy New Year!!!
Well a friend sent me the video of proof of weaves…. 1st run of the weekend at a newish place. I guess I got my hopes up a bit too high after this one. The kid sure keeps my ego in check. 😜
Hi there! We traveled north this weekend for a trial at Crown Sports Center in Maryland. Definitely a lot more buzz than our usual trial site. Brodie was pretty overwhelmed when we walked in the building but I worked good pattern games and he seemed to settle. When we walked into the queuing area a black lab lunged at him so that set us back a bit. We gathered ourselves back up and ran “empty hands” in Open Standard. He was surprisingly brilliant in the new environment! He weaved like a champ with no refusal! Took the backside instead of front of the jump after the DW and did a running contact on the table but I was so SUPER proud of him! Of course there is no video evidence of this run. 🤣🤣🤣
So we took the same strategy in JWW…. Definitely some distraction in this one but proud of him for getting his weave entry with me running his line.
We started day two with confidence since day one had gone fairly well…. I’ll be honest, I’m struggling to find much good in the downward spiral that followed. We started with a pee “accident” in the warmup area. Yes, I had walked him and he had gone but apparently not enough. It wasn’t marking….he squatted like a girl gave me sad eyes and I scooped him up and brought him outside. He didn’t want to go back in the ring but I told him he was a good boy and brought him in. Lots of pogo-ing and distraction…. Then when we got outside the poor kid couldn’t make it to grass fast enough to 💩 (which he had also already done just an hour ago).
Looking at it now it is not as horrific as I remember but it still feels like we’re going backwards. 😕
After struggling to decide if we should just call it a day and leave we decided to stay and do FAST with Toy in Hand. I was hoping to leave on a positive note…. Maybe not the best decision. We got a startline, teeter, a few poles and a lot of jumping on the mama. 🥺
I’m trying hard not see yesterday as a complete meltdown. I plan to stay the course and finish our MP4 lessons even though working time is over but I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of follow up you offer next because we still need sooooo much help.
Thank you for everything in this class! Hope you have a Happy New Year!!!
Nicole & Brodie
Here’s day two of Games package 3 Driving Ahead. We really need to work on tightening up that wrap in sequence 4. It did improve with repetition. I need to learn how to keep the forward drive while cueing collection for a tighter turn.
Sequence 5 showed me how far ahead I’d need to be to get in a double blind cross at 3-4 then 4-5 then again from 6-7. Ugh that was hard!!! The nicest line might have actually been the blind at 3-4 with the rear at 5. It still gave me time to blind 6-7.
Then I got creative and thought it would be fun to test his send to the backside of 6 in sequence 4.
I ran my other dogs on this too. Great exercise for everyone!
