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Weekend of agility with important life skills! Pooping on leash- best pooper ever A+. Sleeping in bed B. Settling is challenging but super morning behavior!
Flight bag for 1 hour drive. B+ still not as relaxed as I hope for plan- super short drives. On the way home she was in a crate. Crated at trial instead of expen- A+. Stay games at trial A, greeting all strangers with exuberance, wags, and dirty feet on them A+ able to refocus to me easily.

I did an unrecorded fine my face in the RV. I show find my face round 2 and sit stay challenge with toys and food. On one find my face she sat watching me- not sure if I handled that well. We will do a session outside later. Maybe she thought I was going out the door??

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Love the recall games this week and find my face. So very clever!!! The stay challenge is just mean- Taq says. More Barrels is what she wants always! Baby steps.

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We took a training day off. We may finally be getting the tunnel
Threadles.

I tried to hold still on threadle slice vs serp. I also tried to stick to my lines on the backside slice. She loved the new games!

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iPhone sadly hates google.

I am
Not sure if I am cuing the backside slice correctly. Sometimes I felt like I was pushing the line too hard.

I switched to the bump and could not leave a toy on the ground so went back to manners minder for the threadles and serps.

Anything with a barrel in it and she is all in. I did a session with dropped food and the dropped toy and then just sent. On one rep she took off to do the wrap so quickly I barely got to the other side. I sense that my obstacle focused dog is here!

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This was a crazy awesome day. It had poured rain so I did not think I could do a cookie toss so I grabbed the Cato
Board and thought I would try a sit. Wow what a good puppy!

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Good morning! I tried the head turn again sitting. She is so quick I am not sure I was marking it as well as I could have. We also had a bit of daylight to do serp/threadle.

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Here are more stats and remote reinforcement beginnings. She did really well with the remote R! Yeah.

And our first 2 attempts at the head turns

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Another question- on the remote reinforcement- two words or 1 for both play and toys? My word is corny. I use Cookies in a sing-song voice for my competition dog after her run, and we go to a stash, so this is already part of my vocab. But I will feel dumb saying cookies as we get a toy stash. Let’s Go is my cue to trot on a show lead ingrained over 45 years.

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Will work on verbals but at least I paused before throwing!

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I’m laughing this morning watching the video. She can only stay if she belly punches me first… Her mom can only stay at the start line if she bounces 2-3 times first. I just assumed it was an excitement release. Her mother goes straight up- does not touch me. Taq is better built, and straight up would be hard for her. She is built to jump forward in an arc.

1. My question is should I try and get rid of this? She is inspired to do it when working closely with me in a confined area right now. If we are in the yard and I throw a toy and she returns she is not gut punching me. It does not hurt- I have lots of padding where she is hitting me 😉

2. I took notes on your comments. I am as impatient as my dogs. I NEED TO WAIT BEFORE TOSSING TOY. I can’t believe you did not mention the fact that I used 4 different markers for the same behavior… arrg. I need to tell myself before I start which cue and be more consistent. I am torn about the throwback if I should use a different cue for food VS toy and a different cue for thrown back VS anywhere.

Get it- is treat thrown (forward or to the side- could be back)
Look- I tried for treat thrown back
Catch is toy at dog (I use this so it is in my brain)

Is it bad if I just use “get it” for the treat (meaning it will be thrown somewhere) and catch for the toy? I am obviously not clever enough to add two new words. Lucky for my agility dogs so far I rarely use verbals (because I would obviously use the wrong ones) but I want to do everything I can to help Taq run as fast as she can.

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Happy new year!!

Sorry for the long pause. I had things going on and then was course building for 4 days plus 32 runs!

I had 2 sessions of pivot and threw in some stays for toys.

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Ok strike a pose take 2

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I wanted to
Post a picture but could not figure out how! It is convex so I need to add it to me weird footing repertoire!!

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Can your puppy offer behavior on a septic tank lid?

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