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Running Contacts – Elevated Mat
Your timing on marking the second rear foot is impeccable! After trying the raised mat myself with a clicker (below) and then re-watching you with verbal ‘yes’ with Electra, I am going to ditch the clicker and stick with verbal.
So how long do you continue with elevated mat?Verbals: Use Your Words
Waiting for Say What webinar and also will listify what Amy/Annalise already use for grown-up agility words.
Meanwhile our lexicon so far is this:Click – marks and ends behavior. Treat is coming that you may move to get
Yess – ends behavior, you may move to get treat
Get It! – forward tossed cookie or toy
Catch – toy or treat tossed back at or behind her
Goood – remain in position, treat will either come to your mouth (kgs) or you will be released to move to get it
Take It – formal retrieve cue
Thank You – formal release toy/dumbbell to my hand (for now *only* when trading for a cookie) to insure compliance)
Sit – means sit until released
Wait – freeze temporarily in whatever position (like to get leash untangled, or to not go toward person or dog or garbage or wth)
OK – release from Wait
Go Say Hello – release to go visit (with 4 on the floor)
Break – formal release from sit to move forward (thru door, crate, gate, etc) with or toward me
BeepBeepBeep – back up
CheckCheckCheck- wrap right
DigDigDig – wrap leftRarrrRarrr- tug with me
Stay Close – loose leash (it’s a very long leash)
Hup – jump up on something
Off – jump/get down from something
Touch – nose to palm or target in palm
(she gets at minimum 50 rewarded reps of “touch” daily)
Come Touch – from further away and only when 100% certain she will come and it’s 100% rewarded)PrytAAAnia – look at me
Wanna Catch? – if you let it go I will throw it
Where’s My Little Bitty Baby Dog? – go to where we can make eye contact but you don’t have to come to me
Words WITH hand signals she is just learning: Sit (tuck sit), Lie Down (fold back), Stand (front feet planted)
LOL, guess you had to be there… 😂
If I hadn’t edited it so short, you would have recognized the majestic tympani from Copeland’s Fanfare for the Common Man:My background is field retrievers and obedience. There’s a good chance either or both could be in Prytania’s future. Soooo, we didn’t prime the pump with tugging (although wow that works SO well!) because we will need a clean fetch, hold and give without any tugging or mouthing.
I also hesitated to start this because she is at the very beginning of teething. I thought I would just do the very first steps of shaping – but I forgot that Prytty is a PUPPY GENIUS!! LOL!
I didn’t video the first impromptu session but it was very very short because she caught on so quick!
Here are sessions 2 & 3, which were 2-3 minutes each – with workmen sawing and pounding on the house in the background!!
And I *swear* the music at the end was just what was playing on the radio in real time – haha!!Annalise & Prytania MaxPup Leg Bumps and Cavalettis
I’m not sure how Annalise convinced bouncy Prytty not to bounce, but I’m suspecting telepathy, lol! However she did it, they got prytty good at it!
Fleet-of-foot Annalise (and the awesome rabbit fur AND holyroller toytoy she brought back for Prytania from Orlando!) continue to build value for turn and burn wraps, adding cues “CheckCheckCheck” for right wrap and “DigDigDig” for left wrap. https://youtu.be/CFPp1HO9DW0
Annalise & Prytania – Rear Crosses with Prop, and Parallel Path with Prop and Stanchions
Circled back for Annalise to do rears on the prop (that I was never able to get right, haha!) and then advanced Parallel Path to wingless.
Annalise and Prytania really worked it yesterday!
Annalise was quite inspired by running the Junior Invitational and wants to take Prytania next year! 😂🤣So here’s Baby Start Line Stays with “Catch”
(When Amy got here, she reminded us to also release from motion!)Running Contacts Foundation (Baby Level)
Who’d’a guessed *I* would jump on doing the RC homework first? 😉 So then her first rep in a box we got the dreaded rear feet together leap 😲 But then she settled down some. She did even better with intro to the mat. But she was looking up at the click consistently so I went to a TnT on one end and dropping a treat in a bowl on the other. Finally decided to get my treat closer and low down to slow her down and keep her head low and forward.
Very satisfied with these last reps (although my back disagrees)!Balance in Motion, Baby Ladder – OK, actually just plain ole cavalettis because I don’t have a ladder. I think this spacing is good, huh?
Prytania sez: “Piece ‘o cake momma!”Prytania MaxPup Tunnel Games 1: Shaping Baby Level
We did this off and on while dodging storms today. I let her just figure it out and since she was hungry figured the TnT reward would increase the value of the tunnel. She is starting to lose teeth so kinda limiting tug for when we need it – like getting her fired up for going in the yummy tunnel once I add the tunnel cue!
Anyway I was just trying to alter starting position gradually and let the TNT do the work, haha!Resilience Game – Environment with *DiStRaCtiON*!
OK this was HARD at first. We started too close to the honking dragons who quite possibly breathed fire and eat puppies for sport (because that’s only the way in) so I cheated and verbally prompted her to look at me. [Edited to add I also needed to avoid goose poop that would have been WAY better than any cookies I had!] But after a bit of acclimation and some distance, she got it and by the end she had connected with her inner duck dog and was all about engagement cookies.
Hi Patti! Yes that is a small noodle shoved thru the hole in a soccer disc cone. Cheap! I just cut the noodle so that it sits on the ground under the disc and then notched the top for a PVC pole to rest in it. I use these with jump bars for regular cavalettis too.
I love cavalettis and have always improvised – here’s a video with Prytania’s grandma Gitchi using those long skinny drawers that RVs tend to have! LOL!
