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We put yoga mats on the ramp. Marrying a contractor is a big win with the dogs 🙂
We have a soggy yard. I worked on angles on the plank, turning and raising my teeter. I wanted you to see so stayed on one side and then started sending with a wing. She was like WTH you doing there?? Also she’s leaping the end. Is it ok just to do the up and not the down? I think she’d benefit with more reps.
I’ll play around with the teeter.
Thanks for the suggestions. We have another day of rain coming so might be a few days.
I do have a high ramp in my bedroom for my old Vizsla with IVDD. It’s not as thin and next to a bed but has given her some confidence racing up and down it. Excuse the 5 dog chaos but there is a brief clip of the ramp at the end of the homework. She’s the one that does the ramp.Hopefully my sends are really sends and I’m
not walking too much. I also ran my dobe right before and I’m slushing through slippery mud, not my smartest move.Ah, that makes more sense! I loved the fact she stayed with me! That’s huge. I can’t believe we are in week 8. Is AU023 a next progression?
We worked on the lap turns today and not flapping arms
Well I often forget how big strided Eden is. My other females have been 1.5-2.5” shorter and shorter backed. I will try to remind myself when we run that she’s a bigger strider.
I mostly do OMD so the get out proofing was confusing to me. But maybe I accidentally missed a foundation game. I’m not sure how my waving arm tells her. With my chronic pain I don’t think my chest was pointing either. She gets an A plus for effort. And she stayed in with me in spite of my poor communication. As always we had fun but I failed 🙂
We’re finally back. We worked on mission transition. I had a question after we did it. Should we be giving our wrap cue when we ask them to wrap the jump? I didn’t hear it in the video but might have missed it. I did at least remember to use it to start.
She’s having so much fun. I can’t believe this is the same dog that started with you. We really like these games. I opted to reward everything.
I had no idea I was moving the toy around. I run with toys a lot and don’t think I’ve ever done that before. I’ll focus on it.
We worked on the rear cross tunnel drill. She’s having a lot of fun. My timing seems much smoother turning to her right than the left still.
Ok we tried for quieter arms.
I’m also taking another online class working on “sensitive dogs” and we did more play between reps. She liked this much better. She had clearer communication. Look at her go there. This felt fun.I’m ready to add my verbals. I wanted to be confident enough not to worry Eden. Some days my brain can only focus on one new task (arms) at a time
Shoot I forgot you’d given me homework and went back to the RC drill. Thursday I will
Practice with quiet arms. I think my arms were a tad quieter here. It’s like when Inrin a novice dog those arms have a mind of their own.Eden turns better to the left but I’m better to her right.
I’ve never had a dog love rears and probably because I don’t do them well.
Eden’s half brother saves me as I send and dart behind – ironically we worked on them in his class. This is a perfect lesson for me.We worked on the blind cross drill. I needed this laughter. Oh my gosh first I was flailing the ball around In my hand. We put that away and did better. My video angle was bad. You can’t really see the 3rd wing. I wanted to use a wing and practice wraps.
We had so much fun in class. Then spent 3.5 hours waiting at the ER with my old 11.5 yr old. Haven’t slept much but today’s news changed the outcome and prognosis so life is back up here. He tore his 3rd eyelid which is way better. The vizslas are very sensitive to me. I’m exhausted and thought I remembered the drill. I didn’t review it. “Bad trainer”
Her wraps are really coming along. And in spite of my goofs she did pretty well. Had I followed the instructions, she’d have done even better 🙂
Ok whew because I talk a lot! Who is this little bean who’s having so much fun! It’s like we’ve unlocked “her happy.” I can’t tell you how much joy this brings me.
Also full disclosure I remembered we were supposed to keep going lateral but that’s all I remembered.
I wish you could see me nodding my head as I read that! Makes perfect sense.
Today we also tried the serp drill.
Our stay is nowhere near good enough and I was alone. Tossed treats seemed to work. I got my hands all mixed up and forgot my what was right but she went over the barI tried to stay connected and let her commit to the wrap before moving. She had an amazing session and I didn’t hit record! We just did a few to get an idea of where we are at.
I would like to start focus on my chatter though
We had fires again and lots of smoke last last week. We were able to watch the live class this morning. We didn’t do Money Pinny last time and we started with last session’s work. When I added the jump bars I realized now I just said “go”. I don’t tend to use left and right but know it would be advantageous to do so. Just need to unlock my brain.
Then we went to handling games sends and serps. It was a struggle for her to determine what to wrap. I realized I never did proofing wraps and wonder if that’s part of our problem? She’s still much better on a left turn than right – which makes sense as she’s had way more lefts. She was also having trouble and going Between the wings – I also wasn’t always in the right spot sigh. But we had fun. When my voice gets higher and I jabber a lot it means I’m worried about shutting her down. I don’t hear it until I play my videos. Twice we stopped and just practiced sends with wraps and she was good.
I’m nodding my head reading your response. I was counting treats as my “timer” but with a sequence I’ll set my phone timer.
We spent a little bit of time focusing on her wraps. Sometimes something I do causes her to stop or not quite be sure what I want.
We had fun with this weeks exercise.
I was pleasantly surprised with her progress. I added a slight curve and she went right through. So we proceeded to smiley games. Oh so thankful for video. I think the angle was tough to find the entrance, I blocked it a few times and once accidentally set myself up for a rear cross. I think she just needs more practice and a better set up and she’ll progress nicely. And she didn’t give up!
