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She will go in circles around me or take a few steps and come right back for a reward. I did notice this time that it is mostly when she is turning left and on my right. It’s her and my bad side.
I played with the serp exercise first. When she didn’t send to the wing wrap, my cues weren’t clear.
In the minny pinney, you can see it a bit more. I don’t have the strength to hold her on my right side for this exercise so she was turning into me quite a bit.
Minny pinny
Ball is life…she dropped the entire tricky treat ball onto my lunch plate the other day, but at least it kept her busy cleaning all the nooks and crannies. And if I don’t remember to put a specific ball away the night she is loose, she wakes me up repeatedly squooshing it in my face. So, yes Ball IS life.
I saw this post after we were training, but I think I rushed her reps here. I am not giving her the time to focus or get set up correctly. We did some serp practice just using the bar before we did the exercise. I gave her more help on the second side than on the first side.
Oh I didn’t think about her growth related to the tunnel. And yesterday I was just telling my husband I think she’s officially taller and bigger than her Aunt. Much less coordinated than an adult dog with all the size and substance.
Thank you for the ball/toy steps. Today we worked 3 5 minute sessions. First session with food only. Second and third session with the ball. In my head I thought I moved further away from the center point making it harder for Rou. But on the video I look like I am almost in the same exact spot. I need to set up some markers.
She’s ticking the bar. Should I ignore that for now? I also worked some focus games before I used the ball each session.
Yea we finally got the tunnel out. I got up early before our run to get training in while it was cool and apparently Rou said WTH is that thing, I can’t possibly go through a curved tunnel.
When it cooled off a little bit I straightened it, shortened it, shaped it and she was able to do simple wraps with the TNT. I gave her a break and worked her sister. Then I brought the ball out. We have an issue I’ve ignored for way too long and I left a short clip of the leaping and grabbing at me. She can wrap and do the rockinghorse exercise with wraps and use the ball. She can’t do the smiley face with wings or the wrap to tunnel. Is this something I need to address on its own or am I asking too much of her puppy brain using the toy for this right now?
Roulette loves the pill bug game. I think my circle was a bit small for her size but we both survived.
We don’t have a stay so I’ve been doing set point and tossing a toy. My video was at the wrong angle. We’ve also been doing more smiley face game work. I should have a tunnel helper this weekend.
Ok we made the circle a little bigger. I have two herniated cervical discs and my right side is my bad side. My blind spot is right about where she’s cutting in when she’s on my right. I’m sure I’m doing something here to pull her in.
She did great though. She’s a little “whacky” this weekend. She and her sister ran straight playing and chasing each other at a new sniff spot for 45 minutes yesterday and 35 today. This is a bit longer than normal. But she’s also been segregated alternately with my intact boy. So she’s both tired but “hyper” at the same time. This is her first heat cycle. Normally I’d take the weekend off but she was bouncing off the walls even after a few kongs.
We haven’t focused on her stay at all. She’s also doing conformation which just started so I just finished her show training. I don’t have a problem training sit and stand, I just ran out of time. I was also focusing on getting my older dobe happy in the ring before we hit 100 degrees and novice is last. We succeeded woohoo so we can go back to the fun stuff for both girls.
Her toe is 100 percent fine. The girls ran almost 45 minutes straight this morning at a sniff spot. She’s been rotating being secluded in an xpen since she’s in heat. She was wild so we did some training.
I moved the bar up to 8” and moved the treat and train 4 ft further to 12 ft away. Growth-wise she’s as big as my adult girl at the bottom end of our standard. I know her growth plates aren’t closed but I don’t see her growing a whole lot taller. Maybe an inch. I love what I see here!
We did some money pinney and went straight to the Smiley face game with wings. My tunnel helper is running all my car errands so we used wings. She’s definitely getting the idea. I’m not sure how my connection was though. About halfway through I realized I was watching her to see what she’d do vs actually cuing what I wanted. If we have time I’ll get the tunnel out tomorrow.
Set point
Smiley face – eek – tomorrow I’ll work on actually doing a front cross properly! I’m actually revisiting this in a class with my older dog.
We did some jump set point. But once again we do not have a stay yet 🙂
We also played with the smiley face game with wings. I realized we needed go back to the last class and work the money pinney and more rockinghorse games. The jump is 6 ft from the bump and the TNT is 8 ft away.
You can’t tell she’s 9 months because she’s a giant 9-month-old 🙂 She is only 1/4″ shorter than my adult female and weighs the same. She also has giant toes, so her toe doesn’t look swollen at all to me. I still erred on the side of caution, and we used the manners minder. The jump is about 15-16 ft from the wrap. I am trying to be good and keep my hair pulled back and remember to work on connection/commitment.
Oh my gosh, that must have really hurt. That is the same product the orthopedic surgeon gave my husband for his surgery wound that wasn’t healing. My other Doberman is notorious for cutting her hocks chasing the critters, and then she licks them into wounds. And just sliced the top of her pad open and has staples. So the wound cream has been ordered. And I have some amazing cones that Dobermans can’t get their long noses around. My husband is the creative contractor, and we’ve extended them with pool noodles.
I think Rou should be good to go in a few days. We won’t be running off leash for a bit but some simple training should be ok.
Just wanted to check in. Roulette tore a good chunk of her rear pad off out running. I’d imagine to will take a week or so to heal
That was great feedback on the handling move. Thank you.
Oh now you have me thinking. I did this before with another dog and started just by having my husband eat the apple alone. We will give that a try.
Her pounces were cracking me up. I have my plank out working the older girl’s contacts so we did some plank play. I also tried the tight turn/head turn but I’m not sure if we did it right. We had fun tho.
Ok, that makes sense for the get out cue. I don’t do much FAST, and I use my arm closest to the dog to send out laterally. It’s hard for me to move my arms across my body due to my neck issues. I’ve also used my outside arm for way too long for my mind to remember anything different. The move is similar to how I actually run my serps with an inside arm across my body. Is this similar to what we used to call a reverse flow pivot/false turn? It’s been over a year since I’ve been at a high level class or trial. I feel like I’ve forgotten what they are like.
I have no idea what to do for slice. She can play the game in new environments and around other dogs working or running agility, even with other dogs running in a big side by side pen. The only thing that might be a distraction would be my husband treating the other dogs but it doesn’t seem fair to ask that much of her yet. That would be a huge ask. He gives all of them pieces of apple and banana a few times a day. They take turns in front of him.
We did some perch pivot work and more stay work. I noticed when I ask her to sit I also lean forward and step with a foot. That’s not part of the cue! I was also really late with the sit cue
Hi Tracy,
We took a few days to “be a dog” and enjoy the outside. I hate to say it because it’s snowing elsewhere but it’s been beautiful here.
The Youtube glitch worked itself out right away. I do have an iphone and it won’t load my thread. I think my thread is too long. I can only get on from my computer. Is it possible to start a new thread?
This is the error I get. “A problem repeatedly occurred on “https://agility-u.com/topic/colleen-and-roulette/
