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We’ve been revisiting the sends and serps. Definitely been a bit of a struggle even with changing the angle of the jump pretty significantly. This was our most recent session and I think she’s starting to get it.
<You might have noticed that on a couple of reps she kept turning even with the toy placed straight past the 3rd jump. She was actually correct at :09/:56 and :31/:40 where you were saying turn turn turn and swing swing and she kept turning, ignoring the toy… the toy placement would require her to NOT turn on that last jump, so I loved that she continued to turn because the verbals said to keep turning.
So, to be sure we reinforce her for continuing to turn: either place the toy so that she keeps turning to get it (it will be right in front of you) or have it in your hands.>
That’s a really good point I didn’t even think about. She really was listening! I will do that on the next session.
So, this went well LOL. Or not. Here is finding the jump. There was a lot of failure during this but I was trying to figure out what I could do to help her. I changed where the jump was, changed the angle of the tunnel exit, had less speed into the tunnel, out her toy in front the jump, etc. We did finally get it at the end when I put the jump directly in front of the tunnel where she could NOT miss it. The last few reps where she did get it, I didn’t toss the toy purposely because she was going so fast I didn’t want her to tumble going after it.
Here is the pill bug exercise. I honestly put this one off because I thought it was going to be pretty hard for me. I added a Wing wrap instead of a food throw so my timing could be better and I also cheated at the beginning and started off with blind crosses because I wasn’t sure my timing would be fast enough. However, I did try a few without that and I did keep my connection better.
It’s always the thing you forget when you get a puppy – how much crap you have to manage at once LOL. I even tried to make it better by wearing at treat bag which I never do. I probably need to implement it a lot more to get the hang of it better.
She is about 10.5 months old. She’ll be 11 months on the 4th of October. For the second jump, I had it at 6 inches. You think I should still move it up?
We also did a second session on the wrap proofing. The only things I tried to cut out during the session was rewarding so you could see the majority. I left it a little longer since I won’t be doing another session of the smiley face game. I hopefully incorporated all your feedback. I did catch myself saying oops but changed it to “try again” with a cookie reset. She had a few tunnel grabs but I think that was me placing in her in a poor position with the tunnel right in her face. Overall I felt like this was a much better session. I even was able to move the wing quite close to the tunnel for her left wing wraps which were the hardest for her in the first session.
