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Here is this afternoon’s session of just the bang game. She was very tentative in this session so I didn’t do anything else except that. She started pulling the board down with her front feet and then jumping on or turning around onto it without actually jumping onto it which is how she has always kind of defaulted to. I’m not sure how to discourage that because it actually seems to make the board rebound back which is what she scared of so it’s kind of a double-edged sword.
Ok so I’ve been getting the games mixed up on what ones I should be fading the target on. So downhill game I should be fading out the target and elevator game we can still have a target? And just for her, going backwards a bit, we keep the target for the bang game but no treat there. Correct? For this game I actually was playing with a toy on that first rep and released to it but I cut it out of the video. But then definitely wasn’t sure what to do when she got worried. So once we build back up to downhills cut out the target, reward her end position, then release to toy. And if she gets spooked, release to thrown toy anyway. I think not having the target there will help me remember that better and not get myself worried about the situation.
So this was not a good session. We started on the downhill track to end position. I did one rep where we left off. She did great on that. Then I moved the board to parallel. She definitely got spooked. But I just tried it again without making a big deal and she really didn’t like the tip point at parallel. I stopped the session and we did something completely different and not teeter related. I guess where should I go from this session?
We did the elevator game today and worked up to some added extra height. She was unsure when I was holding the board with one hand (because I was shaking with it) but that disappeared when I held it with two hands and it became a lot more stable. I know you said to fade the target and add it after she is in 2o2o but I definitely an need extra set of hands to do that so I just figured I’d leave the target there for now until I get better at the mechanics and maybe figure out a similar high value treat instead of her fav PB. Also sorry about the camera angle. I thought it was going to be better and it actually was worse.
We did the downhill track to end position today. I wasn’t sure how she would do with the added height since she really doesn’t seem to care for the table to table game and it was getting pretty similar to that. I was so happy with how how this session went.
Also tried the elevator game for the first time today. It took me a few tries to get the steps/mechanics down but she really had no problem with this one. She was already looking down anticipating getting into her 2o2o. I was actually pretty surprised.
Had my friend help me with the rebound game. She’s still not completely comfortable with it but did much better this session.
We also visited the bang game again and added some height. When I set up right next to the board she steps onto the board often with her front feet to push it down and then adds her back feet. We added the cone and more distance from the teeter to jump into position. She added an extra step into 2o2o but it’s a much more enthusiastic jump into position vs. stepping. Also on the second to last rep, I think I added too much distance/speed for her. The board rebounded and spooked her. She came back and did it fine again. Im kind of kicking myself on that though. Should I change anything in regards to the mechanics?
The great thing about moving out all the agility equipment is you get to be outside.. bad part is then the weather comes into play. We’ve had a lot of rain the past three days so it’s been hard to train anything. I was able to sneak this in yesterday between rain showers. I have to find a different set up to be able to increase the drop as she was doing really well with the incremental increases on this game. I have a question on this game. Would you replace the table to table game with this one or continue to do table to table?
Finally outside and got all our agility equipment out! We set up table to table where we left off. I had her check it out first and I had the towel underneath. Then I did the reps with some tunnels first. Last rep I took out the towel.
Last game was mountain climbers. I’m really bummed because my phone didn’t have storage left so I didn’t get the end reps on tape. The end reps I played with her toy first and sent her through a tunnel a couple of different ways so she had the speed and also had to make an entry to the board that was a little different. She did really well on those.
We moved onto the wobble board. This one was really fun to see her confidence and bloopers on here. We ended up changing the set up near the end and I think she actually started to do some better weight shift with the extra board. On a few of the reps the board rebounded under her and she held on so that was pretty cool to see that.
