Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
>For the next session, add a line on the ground that you can move a little – that will give you the exact moment when you can move, so you don’t move too soon (you were moving a bit early on a couple of the right turn reps, which is why she froze a couple of times or starting coming back to you.
>You can also bring this to a bigger space (outdoors would be perfect!) so you can run run run after the FC, she will like that.
I was planning on doing this outside yesterday but it was too dark – I had a jump bar but didn’t want to use that inside either because I’m sure she would kill herself. She really doesn’t have much for self preservation right now. We’ll do some more sessions outside.
>At 1:05 she looked at something and kind of said “oh heck no” and went the other way (right before Emmie barked at her from the crate LOL!) Do you remember what it was she saw? She recovered just fine from it.
I’m not sure what she was looking at or if it was because I stopped walking – could have been crates too.
>You can also take resilience walks if you have a buddy for her that is ridiculously calm and happy in all situations, so that dog can model calm happy behavior in all situations. For example, I picked up my Whippet puppy at flyball nationals, so it was a busy crazy place. And my 3 year old adult dogs sandwiched him on our walks, creating a resilience sandwich LOL: confident happy adult, 10 week old puppy, confident happy adult. He learned a whole lot! And now he pays it forward by being the resilience buddy for my 4 month old pup – he helps out at vet visits for the pup, new places, etc, because he models calm happy behavior. So, if one of your other dogs can do that, great! If not, maybe there is an adult dog that you can borrow who can assist?
I am planning on doing this at some point. I have a couple of friends with some very confident dogs that I’m going to take her with on a walk. Em is great with people but doesn’t like other dogs and Kippy is pretty indifferent to most dogs but alert barks at people all the time. So I’ve been keeping her by herself so she doesn’t turn into a jerk one way or the other LOL.
Playing a bit of catch up this week but figured this one didn’t have too much brain power for her to do tonight, especially with a toy! However I rewatched and it probably required a little more brain power for me because some of the reps I did the cross body reward and some I did not.
Here is prop games working on parallel path. I also did separate sessions for countermotion and rear crosses. Do you want those posted as separate? Each of those are about two minutes so wasn’t sure if I should post. This was the first of the sessions.
I waited to do our conditioning walk until this past weekend when I could do it at the Midwest Cup. I filmed as much as I could (was a little tough trying to navigate through everything and trying to film). I filmed this part because this was literally her first time entering the building and visiting the site. Lots of new people and dogs she’d never seen before. I was a little worried about the acoustics of the building but it didn’t really bother her. I spent a lot more of the weekend having her out by herself, wandering around and meeting people and checking the place out. In the video, that was the first time she met that person at the end which was very brave for her! She was able to hang out ringside and play with her toy too later on during the weekend. Some people and dogs spooked her a bit but overall I was really happy with her experience.
And here’s toy races from yesterday. The choice of camera placement was poor. But I used high value cheese for food toss and was able to beat her to the toy a few times.
We revisited goat tricks with the plank lowered yesterday. We were able to work turning around on the plank and having her focus more on keeping all four feet on it.
Here’s goat tricks 2. We only focused on movement here. Movement does not seem to bother her much and she’s been on the wobble board before. We also tried the fitbone for the first time. I think she was just trying to figure out how not to fall over or wasn’t quite strong enough so kept one foot down. She started putting all four on there by the end of the session but I cut that off so you could see how she does on something novel. I decided to skip noise for this week. It’s definitely something that we need to work on though. But I think she might be going through a possible fear period the last couple of days because she’s been very sensitive to different sounds so we skipped trying anything with that for this week.
We did some plank work yesterday. So she has been on the dogwalk plank slightly elevated from the ground a few times before this. So i brought out the little plank first because she’s never been on that. Of course right before the camera was on she was literally lying on top of this waiting for me and then had a hard time getting all four feet on during filming lol. Also, I went with a higher elevated plank than I normally would have because she has seen it before and she likes to jump up on things. I did have her turn around a few times (not in video). She just didn’t know where her rear end. I’ll lower the plank again for that cause I think it was a little high for her to be comfortable doing it and will send it for the second session.
Here is our backing up session. We have worked this before and have a verbal for it. The part I always struggle with is keeping them backing up straight. We have worked backing onto a plank before too so I did that during this session so you can see where we are. I’d also like to add more distance to this as part of warming up etc. Am I just lumping too many things together?
Goat Tricks. I did attempt to bring out the item and “present” it before the toy play was over but the disc was too big for that.
And this is just for fun – the real goat trick she realized she could do just the other day. Won’t be rewarding this one.
>> Yes, it is the hardest part but it gets the snappiest blinds. Keep the toy in the same hand the whole time (starting on the same side as her) so you can just put it on the opposite hip. When I learned how to present the reward like that, I had to do an entire session without the dog LOL! Because the mechanics felt so weird at first 🙂 But then it locks in, we add the puppy back, and the blinds will be very easy.
I walked this multiple times in between reps on how to present the toy.
>> Keep the toy in the same hand the whole time (starting on the same side as her) so you can just put it on the opposite hip.
Duh – This was the part I was definitely overthinking LOL. So simple but made it 100x harder for myself.
