Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Tracy
Thank you for the feedback! I ran Taq yesterday and it was better. I am
Going to build jumpers now and see if Taq can feel better about that. The good news is that her a frame and teeter are looking really good! She is having trouble weaving – maybe wanting to get through them too fast and not enough muscle memory. I gave them a rest since she had the weird lameness a few weeks ago. We may only have a speed stakes career! We have a trial weekend after next. Taq is entered in 1 speed stakes each day plus we have a practice ring. I will be sending video!Tracy
Thank you for all your feedback! I hope your drive went ok.
This is cricket on package 2 agility 1. The first run I forgot what side of the jump before the tunnel. Oops! In between these two reps I ran the dog walk since she did not have feet in yellow the first time.
Taq did ok on the parts I ran but was sticky and not wanting to take obstacles. I will try it again with her this morning.
Ps sorry for the camera view. It is the only spot where I can film it all but the good bits were on the other side!
Tracy
I was so excited to do these after watching your video and I was super focused on getting my feet in the right place but somehow Taq and I were not communicating. Cricket did it all with no problem.
Thanks for help.
On the first set was I was using a lower value toy hoping to have her focus on the work and less on the toy. Second time was with her ball. We seemed to do better when we had a running start.
Tracy
Cute puppy!!!!! Can’t wait to hear his name.
The verbals worked much better with me sitting and saying them before release!
Tracy
My cues are slice for backside slice, back for backside wrap (cricket only had back for both so sometimes I try slice but only if it is a real slice- Taq should understand the difference). Push threadle wrap and in in for threadle slice.
I knew when I saw this verbal ex I was in trouble Cricket could not do it. Verbals support my cues only with her. Weaves may be a sl exception. The video is Taq who also apparently needs my body cues! I am showing the entire session. I felt really bad that there were errors. I also was trying to avoid having her jump up but one throw was bad. Btw she is sound but I am being careful.
Our current distraction is new puppy popcorn aka Aqueus Excited Maize. I thought you would w joy my fav snack name!
Tracy
I have no idea why I did not turn her left over jump 1! Tried to
Connect better and give her less questions. She was lame on her left rear yesterday so she enjoyed crate rest ( not!)She is sound today but I will be giving her some time off so back to Cricket.
Tracy
Yesterday morning cricket and I went to run course 2 agility and she refused to run. She has done this at Kathie Leggett’s and the best we could figure it started with a wet tunnel. Ginger and I tried bringing her there on a hot dry day and she refused (literally tries to leave). Then when Taq got sick I tried to Sub Cricket for a jen Pinder seminar and cricket walked in fine but the minute we started agility she declined this was full year later. So needless to say I freaked out that she was broken. There was water in the tunnel. I broke down the course and set up a jumping pop out this AM. She worked!!!! Thank god. So dry tunnels only. Oddly enough if it is raining they can be wet.
Ok so the video is all Taq. Three session. The first one I felt like I could be moving faster and I missed some connections. So I went back out later determined to be connected. Eventually I got it right. I did a send from
Side release since I had a mistake on the lateral with me behind and did not want to make another.I don’t think I ran faster… why do I look so slow?
Tracy
Right on about the start line! That was Cricket letting me know she wanted her info now! Our souls are linked so I responded! So this try we did a proper startline.
I added the spin. I hate post turns and rarely if ever do them so not sure why I made that handling choice. I did not show that run 1 and 2 I did not get the layer teeter. It was good for me to see the difference. I needed to go into the wrap jump after the dog walk to them show her the commitment line to the teeter. If I sent her to the wrap I had no way to show her the evil line away from me.
Your backside on that jump that I missed the first time was yucky! I also should have used my backside slice word. Normally cricket is less focused on my words do I forget to use them with her.
Thanks Tracy!!
Tracy
Little break there. Taq got sick again but is back on the mend. It took me two days and a crashed finger to build this course!!!
Ok no crying in agility. This video shows cricket 1st and only run through. I deleted my happy dance when she layered the dog walk!!! Woohoo. Then I showed some short sequences with Taq. I know she was not weaving (she tried) and I rewarded her effort!!
Tracy
These were all the runs we did. I ran them first with Cricket who aced everything of course. I love how these helped Taq gain confidence being further away.
Tracy
Teeter- I wondered if it would be more clear for her if both obstacles were the same. I wanted had her at a full height teeter but she was stopping early (high yellow) or coming to the bottom and breaking before release so I worked on not self releasing but she is not coming to the end of the board. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Re the forward focus. She is a quick glance kind of girl not a herdy stair. That seemed fine until it wasn’t! Lateral was hard. I made it easier by giving her a preplaced target.
Happy holidays! You said see you on Thursday. Do we have another live?
I got the family to step outside and watch us run. First run 4 people then down to one. She was definitely focused on me. I think the people bothered her less but she was hard to handle because she was not driving to the obstacles.
I was wondering if maybe her dial would be better with a toy rather than treats?
Tracy
Ok added in leash and my husband standing next to the teeter. I forgot to put the leash back on-duh and seemed to me she felt the pressure of his presence. First run remote toy next runs with a toy. I knew the threadle was going to be hard. Cricket has spoiled me.
Tracy
Thanks for that. Perfect start lines: she stays in a sit for a 1-2 jump lead out and release on a verbal cue. She always releases fast. Good start lines: 1-2 jump
Leadout but maybe release based on distance or physical cue.I do throw rewards along lines away from me at home- pretty much exclusively.
Taq and I got a brief sunset session.
The first rep I left the toy in the bag and we ran past it and then ran to it with her reward cue. Now this is her first work in a week so she was pretty hot! The next two reps I had toy in hand.
Tracy
It is bomb raining, and the ground is soaked here, and I was away from my puppy for a week, so I am cranky. But I Got some amazing learning done while at the I and wanted to drill down on this since I think it might apply to Taq. I started doing the pattern games and volume dial with Cricket. Pattern games worked super well to bring her arousal down around hairy barky competitors. She had some tricks so I did volume dial before runs. Over the course of a few weekends I got perfect startlines (EMPHASIS HERE- perfect) and a very sticky dog. By this I mean she did not want to go take things (uber handler focused). So, in the last 2 weeks, I worked with her ball (no treats) and did 180s and pinwheels; she was on fire. I attended to her physical needs before we left and was sure this was nothing physical. I go to the event, and Vol dial before my first 3 runs, and she is super sticky and has perfect startlines. The volume dial tricks with her are fast spins, but after thinking about this, I realized for her they are also pivot into heel. So I think the Vol dial was not done correctly by me and instead I jammed stay with the momma thoughts into her head. On the last day I stopped the vol dial, and there was a subtle difference on the first run, but on the last run was a much bigger difference. By the way the start lines were still good. Sorry, for you to have to read all that, but I kind of geeked out on it and thought you would.
My questions are about Taq. I don’t tend to have focus on me problems and I think that Taq’s vol dials are as you would want- at least the spins (I may lose the hand touch and keep the cute kiss). But I wonder if I should decrease to 2 spins and then run to keep her up and not increase the focus on me? Are there other ways to handle dogs that are VERY handler-focused? For Cricket, the game is almost 100% about me; Taq, it is less; she enjoys moving her body, but with all of our training, I see her becoming more focused on me. With the environmental issues she is more focused on me but we have tools for that 🙂 I am adding in people and strange places I promise.
Thanks for the feedback and hopefully we can show you some videos before the quarter ends.
