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I did get a youtube error but the videos showed up on my computer. When I try to get to the bottom of my homework on my phone, it says:
A problem repeatedly occurred on “https://agility-u.com/topic/colleen-and-roulette/
Rou did great with the toy races and bringing the toy back (although a tad slower which is to be expected).
This is as close as we are allowed to get to the ring and warm up dogs/train. She did pretty darn good with all the distractions.
I’m getting weird error messages trying to post. Hopefully they resolve soon and I can share the videos
She did great with the serpentines. I’ll try to get better video this week. Today we went to a new location for her to run CPE for my other girl. They have two beautiful enclosed areas. We worked on resilience attention games and blind crosses (video).
Not taped we worked on toy races, and bringing her toy back.We will work on the stays. My marker word for getting something behind her is free. I like catch but we also do conformation with a handler who uses catch to keep dogs engaged.
We did the serp work with jump uprights but all you could see in the video was my back. And then we did parallel path and I forgot a bar. She did well though and I tried to mark commitment.
We finally have clear skies! We taped some wing wraps with directionals.
And oh my that was hard. We did some stay work also. Her excitement level in her body and eyeballs tells me she’s ready to leap off at a moment’s notice so I didn’t move around. This is also a new location for her for stays.We had a half day workshop yesterday and ran off leash today. We did a short training session instead of taking the day off because we have a week or more of rain coming.
She did great with the toy out and using food. She was getting a little tired here so we did less reps on the second side. We also did the parallel path game first.
I had a death grip on her collar 🙂 But thinking it through, if I get her to walk away and engage with me, she’ll send better! We will try that shortly.
Here is some of the resilience game moving with a bag of charlee bears. We also did this out front with food on my hand vs pocket and she did great. I’m still learning my new camera and it didn’t record that session
We’ve been working with two toys quite a bit. Today we worked on SSC handling combos. Should we only do one direction at a time? We worked on left with a dish and a toy. We had to get really close to the wing to work the toy but she’s bringing it back to me! Progress
We have rain coming a lot of rain so we may be stuck indoors. Today we tried my nemesis shaping a dog to put their mouth on something. It has eluded me forever. Fortunately the vizslas were natural bird retrievers and the dobes pick up toys.
What kind of object should we be using? I cannot find my chuck it frisbee like you used. I didn’t dare use a ball or a real tug. This was an old tug I got years ago when people demanded dogs had to tug to do agility. Initially she tugged and put her mouth on it but I think I was clicking for nose touches. It’s not as firm as your you and hurt my hands to hold. But we had a good time regardless of what I taught her.
She’s very frustrated and I’d like to avoid that route. It takes a bit for her to get there compared to my other girls. What should my next steps be? And any suggestions for objects?
I had moved the treats from my hands because she’s starting to mug me and run behind me to find my hands. She often tries to snatch a treat as I am tossing it. But maybe it’s a good thing we work on it now. It is mostly dogs or dog sounds she barks at, but often when she doesn’t expect them (maybe?). She’s good at dog shows, trials, puppy class, and agility seminars. We played a very low sound of dogs barking while she it was her turn at the seminar and while she continued working, she boofed, and her arousal went up. She can eat anything. I was using chicken breast. I have all kinds of dehydrated raw treats I can work with, and they won’t upset her stomach. She’s also the age most of my Dobermans believe they own ALL the land and we learn that we do not, in fact, guard the street or other houses
Ah toys and Dobermans – they often aren’t a team sport according to the Dobermans. I forgot to mention that I didn’t post a video. I taught the retrieve in this room with two toys. It’s difficult room to video. With one tug she tried to get out the blocked dog door. Her body is stiffer and she’s letting me near the toy because the room is small I think. She seems to turn away from me. The game I’m playing with her is how I play when she has her ball. Her body language completely changes with two toys. She’s soft, she’s engaging with me and coming into me.
Whew I’m glad I don’t sound grumpy. Boy I am exhausted. I don’t know how you teach seminars daily. You’re on all day without a break. I absolutely love them. You need to come back to CA! Yesterday I was at all all day seminar with my retired vizsla since the older dobe came into heat. We had a blast but I chose to work on things easier for me today. Lap turn and tandem turn. We also did some resilience work in front of the house on the driveway. I can’t believe I didn’t think to do this sooner. She’s a bit “nosier” and quick to “boof” than I’d like. You can see her checking out the noises at the neighbors houses.
I also bought more toys to see if I can get Roulette to return a tug. We got lucky in one of the lessons earlier but we haven’t had success since then. She returns balls and will drop a tug for another tug. I bought two furry tugs with balls on the end to try this week.
We went to the seminar with Dot and Ginger yesterday and didn’t do a lot today. Rou did great, I’m exhausted. I do have to practice using a leash! We did the seminar off leash but we will need one in the real world. We got to use our resilience attention game and we learned a toy even in a cooler is very hard. That’s a goal for our resilience game.
We did some stay work. I did change up markers but forgot to change myself. I got a lot of vocalizing which is new for her.
I worked on the resilience game moving but I’m not sure if that was right. Should she make eye contact while I’m moving or when I stop? I ended up stopping to make it easier.
I sound grumpy but I promise I’m just tired.
Our verbals for the stay game:
Ok – release and GO.
Free – treat/toy thrown behind them
Tug – break to a toy I am holding
Get it – go to a tossed piece of food
X – come get the food.First I forgot we’ve been so focused on conformation she wasn’t going to sit! Then the platform we used to use was too small. I kept forgetting my word for throwing behind me. Human C+, dog A.
Since I had a baggie of chicken with me I took her inside after doing back up work against the Kennel behind me.
It took her a bit to figure out which game we were playing.It is an open bag of Charlie Bears on the ground. We may not be successful with chicken. Fortunately/unfortunately, Rou has had a lot of practice with this game out and about. She went through a phase where a “sudden dog appearance” startled her and her response was to BOOF and puff up. Pattern games are so helpful for keeping her focused and working far enough away when a dog turns a corner, etc., so she can stay engaged and not worry.
I am pretty good about taking training time off because I enjoy our romps as much as the dogs. Sunday Rou got a run and got to spend some time playing with Dot, learning to take breaks, go to play, etc.
Verbals
I currently use dig dig to mean left or right wrap. But I swear with this dog, I am actually going to teach left/right and transition that into our turn and burn games, etc.
Back is a backside wrap.
Spot will be her 2o2o dog walk, aframe
Bang will be 4 on teeter.
I still need to pick a forward focus word and start teaching it. I will probably use look.
Tunnel soft turn – soft name call (not taught yet)
Tunnel tight turn HEY HEY (not taught yet)
We don’t do too many threadles in AKC trials since I don’t do Premier but we atually do quite a few in my seminars. I haven’t named them as I don’t use them that often but I keep saying I want to do more UKI.Here is some strike a pose work. I can’t see on the first side but on the second side I’m clearly moving my arm towards her instead of staying stationary. Video catching me again.
