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These Manchesters and the chewing. . .ALL THREE OF THEM. After 20+ years of dals, i’m like. . .really????? Who chews kibble???
I got both front feet in a metal pan and pyrex dish today. Amazing. I remember when I couldn’t get her to touch anything weird.
Okay, here we are inside with our small target. She is smoking along, the starts approaching from the left, with a turn to the left? Do I care? I don’t know, should I care? She is hitting the target at 100%, just turning to the left only when approaching on the left. I move it out, same issue, but approach from the right doesn’t have that.
If I don’t care, then I’m golden. I don’t have any more space inside. Should we move to the next step (get rid of the box and remember how to work my pet tutor?) or fix the spin?
Our first venture outside with distance was a disaster, so I switched back to box work. I’ll try to get to the outdoor arena a couple of times this week. My object was really wobbly on the grass, and she couldn’t find cookies, so I just need to work on a better set up. I did a session in my house today which was good, I’m just out of space to get any more distance.
For the box work, I wish I had one more size box inbetween the two I have, but making progress.
And there is a surprise guest at the end.
Hi!
Here is Will Smith doing goat tricks, he has never seen or been on that object before! I also added in the box work from the RDW class since all the dogs are doing it and I figure why not?
One challenge I am having is I had to work HARD to get him to tug. I’ve been using kibble which seems to be perfect value to get tug or behaviors, but he and Jackie have been having diarrhea and I’ve had to simplify their diet. They are getting rice, pumpkin and chicken. I’ve purchased a new kibble, but am incorporating it slowly to see if it will work and only feeding it in the morning (the 2 am potty runs are NOT amusing me). I don’t have time to train in the mornings, so I suspect another few days before I can switch back to kibble.
I don’t want to lose the switching between toys and food. Any thoughts?
A little bit of goat tricks with Will Smith. I realize it was too small for him to get all feet on, the other one was much bigger. I’ll try to find something else, but generally, he is willing to hop on anything, I had to pull him off the aframe this week. Yikes.
For fun. Will Smith is the 3rd puppy through.
We went outside!! So nice to have a break from the rain.
Included:
Letting go of the toy. I did this with Squeaky too and he was just like ‘why did you stop’, Will Smith a little too, so even if they don’t run around is it rewarding? I can’t really tell.Being outside! Yay!
More distance on the target. Will have to do a lot more reps outside, before I add more distance.
Tug/Cookie/Tug. Seemed perfectly happy to do whatever was on the table!
Some tug work.
I love his tug, it is better than the other two puppies, but also likely evolution of the behavior, I’ve been tugging with all of them since they were able to tug.
I added the tugging on me when I first saw it in class.
Next step? Stand up?
Vet was completely useless, 2 1/2 hours of my time and $90 (and missing some class). But my conformation friends to the resuce, they showed me how to tape ears and remove tape, so it is nicely wrapped, I re-wrapped it today.
I normally have a little more room but not much, my house is 600 sq ft (that is my only hallway!!). He was **very** distracted by seeing himself in the camera, so where I would normally place it, I couldn’t. Weather will be nice this weekend, so I’ll work on it outside. I can also use the indoor arena now that he has shots (we just have too many random dogs going through there before).
Okey dokey, I decided to work with Will Smith. Progress with Trish is super super slow. I can do this stuff with her once I get her more operant.
Will is a very willing worker, less drive than Squeaky and Otter, but still fun to train (especially compared to Trish). Starting from the beginning.
Here is our work with the target, send, blind cross.
Hello!
cut my 1×1 yoga mat, she got it quickly, put it on an elevated target that was slightly larger than 1×1, no problem. Put it on something slightly smaller than 1×1 and sorry, video idiocy, you can’t see it. But you can see her going up. Went great a first, but then my questions arise:
1. Should my 2nd elevated target be smaller than my mat?
2. She did so great in the beginning giving me all 4 feet from the start, but then we got 3 feet and started with the spinning. I hate the spinning as it is her superstitious behavior. T I’d prefer to keep my criteria super high and only go for 4 directionally, since that is where we are headed. Whatcha think? These damn terriers you click something a couple of times and you get it forever. My puppy got clicked for bowing in one session now he does it non-stop! Maybe i click for 2 or 3, but not for the get on and spin?Okay, it was short lived, I’m keeping him. I also may be getting a 15 month old girl out of Texas. 😳
Here is tug on me.
When he comes off me, what do I do. It seems like it puts me back into ‘shove it in his mouth’ position. Do I wait? Make it move then bring him back?
I’ve gotten him going a bit with the “heavy petting”, but it wasn’t as effective this time. https://youtu.be/fOCDDxS7ZEY
Yes, I like that idea. Very compelling.
My co-breeder and I are trying to figure out what to do with the litter and I might place Squeaky, but keep another. UGH. This is agonizing not knowing who goes where.
Here we are again with goat tricks. I cut off the minute of playing before.
The Sorry game made noise from all the pieces inside rolling around loose. That was not intentional, but it surprised him a little bit. So in the moment, rather than moving it again (and more noise) I engaged him in a little play which I think did the trick. Same noise when I picked it up and we went into play.
So for random noise, old games from your childhood that don’t have the plastic parts anymore. HAHAHAHA!
