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I was referring to mountain climbers. So start at full height? That sounds incredible scary to me. I will probably need to keep my hand in her collar and food at her mouth to keep her from bailing.
My “teach-it” is coming. I’ve watched the video a few times but want to be clear where I should start. With it on the lowest setting? Then when she’s super comfy move up from there?
Thank you, your reply is making me feel a lot better. She has not done mountain climbers. It’s just not something I had done before so it’s a new concept for me. Honestly I’m scared to do them with her.
She has jumped off the almost top of the AF way early on and has had a few episodes of becoming almost paralyzed on the DW after running it successfully for weeks. I have not pushed her ( I swear) and I can tell there is something going on that is preventing her from getting real confidence on the contact obstacles. I will think she’s there and will ask for a little more and we go backwards. So we go back and build confidence again. So, I will put on my big girl panties ( and hope hers are on as well) and tackle mountain climbers.These were super fun, especially the box. I think I did what I was supposed to, but she pretty much did what I asked her to on each one. We started and ended with a go, even though they weren’t recorded.
Should my body position be the same for serp and threadle? The only difference being my verbal? I’m picturing this scenario in the middle of a course and see myself traveling across the plane of the jump looking the same to her. In slo mo she seems to get the difference, but when we go live and she speeds up will she get it?
This should get me caught up through week 3. I don’t have a “L” “R”, I need to so will get to them when I have more time. I love these drills, especially the serp. threadle, tunnel one. She was awesome on my left, but struggled more on my right so we need to do more of that. I tried using the contact board for discrim and she just doesn’t get running away from me on it. In the training I did on it, I was lateral or ahead. I’m wondering though about the plank to table that I’ll be using for entries? I could put that next to tunnel and work the discrim that way. What should they do at the top of the table? jump off for treat? place reward there for them to stop?
We did the wrap drill a few days earlier at sotc, she couldn’t do it. Was so high, and I was using a toy which puts her at an even higher level. We need to do that more.You may not see this now, but wanted to say THANK YOU!!! Josie and I have had a blast doing so much with you in the last year. Don’t know what I would have done without my AU courses during lockdown too. They definitely kept me motivated to do something.
Really hoping we can do something in person with you in 2021.
Stay safe and here’s to a better 2021 🙂I’m going to go back and revisit the one where she was coming in over the jump on the BC instead of staying out. I think it was the 2nd sequence.
Let’s just say sending to the backside and then blinding was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do with her in those last few sequences. I think I did it like 5x to make sure she knew where she was going then I couldn’t do anything else but a full post turn on the next jump, my brain couldn’t handle it !!
I’m planning to do the last sequence this week, she has class today so didn’t want to do too much yesterday.
So as you can tell we took this session on the road to SOTC. First time there since last winter. My main focus was keeping her engaged and happy. She had besties there as well doing obedience homework ( bleh) but she handled it super.
I tried SO hard to be in the right place and off her line for those last BC and watched later from my perfect camera angle to see me in her way; lol!!
I need to do more of them, both sides.We worked more on that last backside, she’s pretty good in slo mo and she’s better on my left cuz I’ve worked that side more😳
Am I right that our physical cues are similar for out and backside so our verbals are what is helping them differentiate? I feel like she did the one I needed her to do and was it also where I was giving those cues?For some reason we really struggled with getting to the correct end of the tunnel the 2nd time around. It should not have been that difficult 🙂 Then I know I totally over compensated and really pushed into her line. Then I kinda forgot about it as we went on and it wasn’t an issue any more.
Disclaimer – we had family in the bldg for Halloween pizza so there may be comments heard in the background – LOL!!!As I was leaving to finish up my homework for week 2, I got your email so I sat in the driveway and read it several times. It was perfect timing and just what I needed. I appreciate your honesty.
I was not aware I wasn’t rewarding her enough and I realized that again, during class and the few seminars she is getting rewarded for everything because I’m working harder to keep her with me (miss social butterfly).
When we train alone, I’m trying to get her away from me – LOL!!!!
I had more of a class mentality today which translated to lots more rewards and a much calmer Josie.I’m having a hard time not crossing my arm over for the fc/wraps. Old habits are sometimes hard to break in the heat of the moment!!
We’ve been working the stay and yes she broke that 2nd sequence so we took a break and reinforced some. She’s going to keep pushing it, I know.
This is a longer video than I’d normally submit, but I left in some behavior I’d like your input on. She was jacked and jumping up and barking about 2 inches from my face. This is not normal, she had Ti outside barking and at class I would normally be using food to keep her with me from socializing. This could potentially be trial behavior😳
My instinct is to collar grab time out, I can’t. She has always scooted away from me.Any other suggestions to work the stay?
Should I pull out the food to keep her next to me in between reps so she’s not jumping up, barking telling me I’m stupid?
