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We 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)
Some more work on the same stuff, I left it all there cuz I had some questions.
Like what do I do about the fly bys on the prop? Does she need more value on it?Trying to get caught up on some stuff. We’re getting in some practice, not always video.
I smiled at the backup,video with Exie. All my dogs learned to back that way. Bella is gonna change that, lol
I think I may have gotten 1 blind mechanic right.
Toy stuff with the prop changed the picture. At times I felt like she didn’t know what to do, sit, grab toy or what. It was still a great tugging session though !!!
A few more reps of the prop game. https://youtu.be/UFDtNNaPe6k?feature=shared
Unedited blind cross foundation fun
I’ve been watching this litter grow up. My 6yo Josie is a relative. Cash is her grandad. Have fun with Tribute.
Had just a few minutes this afternoon so tried the 2nd jww course. Easier to send out to those jumps going this way. Well when I time it right. I thought it went well and I love how she grabbed the weaves the first time.
