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I went to FF with a working plan and realized her car panties we’re in the laundry room:(
So we compromised and did a shipile on the mats.
I should have planned better for her getting to the pile before me to support the rocker board. I didn’t realize it’d be that loud.
Afterwards I worked it separate with a pad on one side and mat to soften the sound. She was fine.Not as much room to tug and get her chasing me but it was much better I thought.
Tried tugging again and she’s more interested in rubbing her panties off. She’ll interact, but not much tugging.
I didn’t try again after the first time.
She’s more than happy to work though.
The only new thing we did today was threadle wrap on the barrel.
Enjoy whatever conversation was going on, lolQuick session, but not a lot of success tugging.
However, our 2nd session backing onto a mat and woo hop!!
Now that I watched it I see I can probably pull her off a bit farther.
Not our best training session. We usually train before they run but we had to work around the mowers so she was a bit tired.
I thought she had great commitment to the backside but I’m not rewarding in the right place? It just doesn’t look right, like she would bypass the jump and not take it.
Full disclosure I still don’t know what the next exercise is. I followed what you did. Tina showed me Julee video but what am I trying to get?Do you do most of you SSC with recalls to the toy? I want to do more of that.
Back to SOTC today and when I pulled in and saw several other cars I almost left!
I don’t know why. Bella is not going to do anything bad but I felt this pressure at that moment to make sure she had a positive experience amongst the additional distractions.
Way to make her feel more empowered by panicking, LOL!!
The good thing is, pattern games help ME as much as they help her.We kept it super simple and I didn’t not video on purpose I just kept things short and sweet. We shaped the tire and then did some tunnels. Tina was the tunnel reward with a dragging toy and that kept her totally into the game with lots of distractions outside the ring.
As you can hear her say at the beginning of this video, I didn’t even know she was doing it. We have only been practicing “catch” stays cuz her sit-tug tends to be down-tug at FF. Figured i’d give it a try there. Her tugging all 3 times in the ring was amazing.
It really was a great hour for both of us.First time trying rocking horses and I think she’s gonna get the hang of it pretty quickly.
The get out to the prop? SO awkward, lolWe went to sotc today which was a bit rough at times. It was just Tina Kathy Donna doing puppy stuff so it was a good environment for us to practice.
She’s at the Aussie phase where she wants to leave and check things out. So I need to track and handle that a little better.
I’m so bummed my prop was just out of range, but kept a few reps in cuz you can see the handling.
She loves the prop!
I thought her parallel lines on the bump went really well.I’m going to throw in a lot more toy races? Interesting though, the few times I’ve done some puppy grid work with Tina I hold her and Tina goes to the end where the reward is. She drives through them, no issues at all leaving me and driving away like she did with you and the cheese stick in July.
Any other ideas to get her Go going?She struggled this morning. We were alone, nothing going on outside either but the wind. I swear she acted like there was something at the other end of the bldg (the ghost of Samantha, LOL!!!) so I just let her go check it out and come back when she was ready which she did.
>>You missed the first reward moment so she offered a HIGHLY rewarded behavior.
I KNOW, I suck, LOL!!! She’s been consistently playing this (sit) game so well I hesitated. My ball cap really hid the smirk, look of defeat of my face.
Yeah, she is clearly not a “Debbie Downer”!!
We will work on getting that on video, I promise. I attempted some today and she really is not driving out to a toy. I did just a few toy races. I’m going to experiment with some different things like her furry lotus ball.
I started with some sits to “catch”. I wanted you to see what she defaults to at the beginning. It’s her Safe spot. She picked it pretty early on. When she is nervous about the surroundings or unsure what is being asked of her, she curls that butt around to my feet and will sometimes get her bum between my legs. I guess she also does it cuz I can’t resist treating it. (full disclosure) I have named that “spot”, for safety spot. I find this ridiculously adorable, but I know it will bite me in the butt at some point if I’m not careful. When I say sit, I would like her to just sit, not swing her butt around like she did first thing.
I’m looking for suggestions. I started asking for sit, quick treat, then catch.
This is not the first time she has played this game. This game taught her to catch treats, yee haw!!She is a downer though, resorts to downs a LOT. The tug sit tug game is hard cuz of the down. I have to release her immediately or she’ll go into the down.
The dehumidifier is on if you can’t always hear what I’m saying, sorry.
– if you get to the toy first, you get to tug with Tina. And she has to watch – which might make her BIG MAD and then she smokes you on the next rep 🙂
This made me snort!
Did some sandwich handling, we experimented with food, no food on the decel, throw toy or the last rep Tina dragged the toy. Not a great angle, but I think you can get the gist.
Then I tried to redeem myself with parallel on prop and I thought it went much better.
>She was probably looking at you because you were using a ‘yes’ marker, which gets the pups looking up at us and watching our hands toss the treat. So to get her looking at the line and not at you, switch to a ‘get it’ marker: when she hits the prop, say ‘get it’ and toss the treat. That should keep her eyes on the line and reduce the fly-bys 🙂
Dammit, I KNEW that – LOL!!! (and that’s why we video)
