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And here’s our Mountain Climber’s 4.
I like your suggestion of using the broad jump boards and fading them. I usually use toilet bowl plungers ;). You can see them in the background at the end of my dog walk.
Hi Tracy, hope your travels are going well. Loved seeing your flyball posts. Here’s some more of our teeter work.
The Rebound Game
Not sure if I’m doing this correctly…or moving the board too much side to side. She doesn’t seem to have too much of an issue with it. But, I’m getting a metal teeter…it arrives tomorrow, and I recognize I may have to revisit some of our work. The metal teeters behave differently from this fiberglass one…which is light weight…but doesn’t really give us a competition teeter experience.
Elevator Game Part 2
Here’s our latest work with this. And I just realized I haven’t posted Part 1. I’ll get that done, also.Hello!! We’re still here and working. 🙂 Here’s some of our latest work on end position on the board. I went back and started focusing on just this…to get a clearer end position for us to work with. Here’s what I came up with…she’s very pronounced in putting her elbows to the board as she gets into position. Usually I can even hear her do this, if I’m not looking and then her hind end is either crouching and/or moving into the down position. So, its those elbows down, hind end crouching that I went back and began rewarding. I used a clicker to help me and her.
My target on the teeter has always been at the end of the board…velcroed to the bottom. It’s hard to see in the videos. I quit using it and went to the manner’s minder for some reps because she wouldn’t get into position until after she self rewarded at the end of the board. So I wanted to change the timing of that
I think this is looking better.
I’m not loving this teeter…it doesn’t go back into position on the Teach it! So, once in awhile, it bounces on her as she hops up. It doesn’t seem to bother her…but I try to manage it. My new metal teeter should be arriving soon.
Let me know how this looks to you…and thanks for keeping the class open through May. That will let me keep going. I think we’re headed in the right direction. 🙂More bang games…on the end of the teeter. Here I’m trying to reward when she crouches like she would do if digging…seeing those “forearms” get prone against the teeter and the chest lowers….and sometimes she goes into a full down.
Hi Tracy, Questions for our end position work on the teeter itself. On all of our work on the teeter itself, I’m using really high value treats. Today, for our session on downhill, I also brought out the Red Bomb…her favorite ball in the whole world. It excites her so much, that she is literally vibrating head to toe as she stares at it. You’ll see I initially have trouble getting her to eat the treat at the end of the teeter. I do think she may be driving faster for the ball…and I’m trying to get a clear picture of what I’m asking for her at the end. I slowed down the video and I can see she is driving and “crouching”…and then she stands back up…is the driving/crouching that I see there enough for the end behavior I want…or do I hold out for more crouch and even a down…like she gives on the wobble board? Oh, this piece of equipment is so complicated!
Mountain Climbing 3 on a Peanut
Hi Tracy,
I originally set up this exercise inside with my 6 foot board, the peanut and the teach it. But it was too unstable and it spooked her a bit. She didn’t even want to get on the board in that set up.
So we moved to the set up you see in the video, using the dog walk plank. After the third exercise here, I decided that I needed to lower the treat tray, so I did that for the following exercises. Also, I used a clicker to mark the positioning I wanted from her…looking for more of a crouch or even a full down on the board.Good morning, Tracy. Here are some short clips from our foundational work. As I went through all of this, I was beginning to wonder if the 4 on end position behavior I originally taught Sundae might need to be adjusted…is she too big for 4 on and needs to switch to a 2o2o? She’s 17 inches and about 35 pounds. I’m feeling a bit better about it all, after reviewing your first two videos for our second segment, especially the Mountain Climbers 3.
I originally taught Sundae to do a digging behavior at the end of the board, and you’ll see that come out in our backing up video here. (In fact, I use Dig Dig as my teeter command…which I also used for Friday.)Here’s our plank confidence work.
End position on the board
End position on the teeter
Crystal
Hi Tracy, here is our uphill and downhill work. I’ve ordered the Teach It. And it’s on it way…looking forward to getting that. Great idea. Thanks for including info on it for us.
