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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.
Here is our blind cross foundations. I like doing this with the cookie toss better but if I have to throw it in a bowl outside I won’t have time to do my mechanics for the blind cross. She’s too speedy for me already 😂 That and she’s not super thrilled to be restrained either. I did get my husband to hold her for a couple of these though. Presenting the toy across the body is the hard part on these and I definitely over thought it on top of that. So we had some ok reps and some not so good ones 😂
Here is decel and turning foundations. I don’t have a great spot for this since there is not much room but we worked with what we had. I would do this outside but then she can’t see the treats in the grass. I’ll see what I can figure out for the blind cross exercise.
>>When she is on your left, we want her to turn to her right – so break that side down a bit for now so she is not as far ahead or feeling as much pressure from the motion. When you throw the toy, throw it further out to the side, away from you, so she almost triangulates to get to it. That opens up the peripheral vision so she can see you off to the side better and is more likely to turn to the right towards you.
So don’t throw the toy straight, but more to my right as well? I’m pretty sure I get what you are saying on this so I’ll try it and you can let me know! I didn’t realize I also didn’t’ switch this exercise to include both sides. Will do that next time.
Here is building sends and commitment with the prop. We switched our prop because the bag I used yesterday was really slippery and I thought she might kill herself on it if she was turning for a toy. We switched to an oven mitt. We did a longer warm up on this but I already went a little long on time so I cut some of that out. I really struggled with the mechanics of this, more when I was using food. I also was having a hard time seeing if she was really touching the prop so I missed some clicks.
Pre-game #2. I think I went a little too long during this session. I did have toy play sessions but edited them out. I probably should start setting a timer.
