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I think my bright yellow tunnel was attracting the wasps. I’ve never left it out before because I had a male
Dog. We’ve erred on the side of caution with real early morning training. We are having a lot of success ignoring the the toy or using a cookie to reset. I’ve
Been varying which hand is holding the toyLooking forward to seeing you again in Max Pup 2.
Oh, I love this plan!! Sadly, I do have a tug-it cue, and I have forgotten to use it. We had a short session today. I did ask for some eye contact warm ups with food before using the toy. The first time the toy was in my pants, and then I held the toy. The video starts with the toy in my hand.
She did great!
As far as building value, we have wasps nearby. Lately, they haven’t been showing up until about 10:00 am, so I’ll see if I can try some hunks of food before they show up. Better yet, let’s hope my husband can find the nest and give me peace of mind.
Oh, I was sure it was me and it is 🙂 She can do wrap, tunnel wrap and tunnel wrap. But if the toy is in my hands, I have to switch it before sending her to the tunnel. If I send with the toy in the hand closest to her, it is too big of an ask. At the end, I put it in my pants. This was interesting to see her speed slow down, which I am ok with. She might be thinking, and she might be getting a little tired
The other things I am noticing are
1. She has very little “value” in going over a jump, especially sending. If the reward isn’t “right”, she trots, balks or doesn’t go over it. I want to build value in the jump itself.
2. This bled into our rear cross homework. If the toy is on the outside of the wing at all, she will wrap and run by the side of the wing. However, if I hold her collar and toss her toy so we are at a diagonal angle, she will go right over the jump as I rear cross but it’s a slow trot.
3. I think it’s incredibly hard for her to wrap and turn away from the toy on the rear cross sequence.Somehow I think I need to go back quite a few steps here and rebuild these things. I think she’s doing great but I a not quite seeing the “confidence” I would like. I am not sure if that is the right word. I want to make sure I am not making things too hard or too quickly for her. And I night be overthinking since my background are my soft Vizslas 🙂
Let’s start with me signing up for Max 2 as a working spot.
Rou and I are really struggling to work with toys out. Instead of improving, the issue seems to be getting worse, so I think I need to take a step back and address it properly. She’s come a long way in terms of skills, but this is starting to hold us back.
She’s driving nicely to tunnels, but if I have a toy out, I can’t get a wrap. The overarousal has been slowly building for a while, and I realize I’ve been managing it with band-aid solutions rather than addressing the root cause.
Here is some work from yesterday on our jump grid and rear crosses.
well hmm, maybe she is just overtired. We had a surprise visit from her breeder who flew from GA to CA so we also went out Sunday to the river. Yes, she focuses on the hand for conformation and nibbles the bait sometimes when stacked.
For the wing tunnel jump sequence she was leaving me right away to get her toy. Today was another lesson. It’s finally hot. I need to set a timer. I thought our whole time outside was 5 minutes but it was 10. That was too much for a puppy brain even though a good portion was resetting exercises. That said, today she did great working the finding a jump game. On one side she went by the jump twice. I am not sure if I didn’t line her up right, it was too high or she was eager to get to her toy.
I think when this session ends we should sign up for AU098 and repeat the session. She’s doing great with what I have had time to train her but I don’t feel we are solid enough to move on yet.
We took some time off for conformation again. I’m seeing a pattern I need to work with. The weekends after conformation, she’s so hand focused and grabbing at treats. I need to slow down and maybe go back to the attention game before we train.
I changed out food for a tug toy. I’m not 100 percent certain I’m doing the blind cross right.
I was able to send her to the tunnel and over the jump once with a pre placed reward but the distraction was too high.
We worked on finding the jump after the tunnel and the out. I was in a rush to get done before the heat and get to a meeting. We need help on the out cue but I’m not sure if the video was set up so you can see my shoulders.
Started with the ball and she went wide behind me.
Switched to food and she was a tad better
Moved the wing further away and her wrap was betterTunnel jump – I think I need to raise the bar. I think she’s actually stepping on it.
I forgot how much energy conformation takes for the dogs. We had a show Friday through Sunday and she was in the ring 6 times.
Yesterday We did a small bit of the Smiley face game with a tad more distance. She seems to be driving to the tunnel better.
Today we had an in person morning seminar with Jen Pinder and we got to practice some of the skills we’ve learned with you at a new place, new Dogs etc. It was so cool to see all the pieces come together. The resilience games paid off big. We did some jump ladder work and it was interesting that she drove to a food bowl much better than the treat n train. I had someone hold while I lead out. We didn’t train tonight.
Hoping we get some training tomorrow because we have 4 days of shows again.
We played with rear crosses sending to her toy. We had two not shown where I released her still focused on the toy and she left me.
Overall I loved it. I do notice how quickly she started to slow down though. I stopped after the last rep but think I could have stopped sooner.
Bars are 6” high except the first one. Jumps are 6’ apart. I underestimated how hard she’d drive into me. This is probably her second most high value reward, only beaten by a flirt pole.
This was fun!! We did practice some simple tunnels with the toy in my hand so we can eventually work up to using similar toys. This poor little tail is almost completely off the line.
It’s been a CRAP year. We have lost 3 dogs in 11 months. I have one poor little sweet Vizsla who lost her dam and half-brother within months, and she’s so confused.
Yes, I can definitely get him to help more. I’ll try it with her longer, bright yellow tug toy, so it’s also visible. The jumps are 6 ft, and the bar is at 6”
As smart as Rou seems at times, I swear she still isn’t sure that the TNT delivers treat. Putting the ball in a dish is genius! We need a little bit of practice going back to “leaving the toy to get the toy.”
I am able to leave my tunnel out more often now since I have all girls. Rou is doing a great job going through it. We played with some smiley face games, and the wind was so hard that we only got a few reps on video. But she’s driving to the tunnel much better unless I accidentally stop short.
We’re back again. We’ve had some crazy time off. Roulette showed 14 times in 3 days and finished her show CH her second weekend showing. And we were all exhausted. We planned a week off and then we lost our 9 yr old vizsla to hemangiosarcoma yesterday. We’re all a little off.
I had my husband help with the jumping grid. I’m having a hard time getting Roulette to send and commit ahead of me. I tried two rear crosses and then switched up to sending her ahead to her ball. The ball is near the TNT in front of it.
It might be a good idea for me to practice with the Cato board and set that as a starting point gently holding her. We have a long weekend of dog shows so I’ll do some play time working on her left turns.
Here is our jumping foundations zig zag. I had to chuckle watching this. It’s a busy busy time at work and I had an early meeting. I got up extra early to train and apparently my brain wasn’t engaged. I completely forgot my marker cues for most of the session. It’s a tad hard to get her to the exact right spot with the way she leaps and suddenly stops to get the food. We got pretty close except for that one she missed.
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.
