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There were some breaks as there must have been a deer in the yard earlier or something. She was all about hunting and running all over and ignoring me. I did get her attention enough in-between to do some agility. She liked the circle one. Also the hunting is the reason I didn’t do startlines.
Thank you! I’ll review my videos with your feedback in mind.
Here are the other 3 courses. We did them this afternoon. Towards the end I didn’t layer as she was hot, we had some failures, and I wanted to support her more.
Thanks for the great feedback. I can see the things that you pointed out and how to do better.
I’ll work on the focus forward. She already knows it on a dish when she’s next to me for obedience so it should go quickly.
We moved on to the Live 1 courses since they are quicker to setup and I’m already quite behind. Here are sequences 1, 2, and the Bonus. Although I did a slice on 6 and not a wrap. Not intentionally – I just forgot that it was a wrap.Great seminar last weekend! It was nice to see you in person again.
Saphira’s training has been a patchwork. If you remember we struggled a lot when she was younger. So we’ve probably got quite a few holes in our training. She jumps 24″ so I’m jumping her at 20″ here. We finally had enough of a break in the rain to setup and run the Hot Topic! sequences.Sequence 1
Sequence 2
Sequence 3
Sequence 4
Sequence 5
Sequence 6
He’s a beast!
Here is our pre-game 1 – wrap verbals. But as I watch the video I’m wondering if this is supposed to be purely verbal only and I’m doing too much body help? But you will tell me. 🙂Technology is great when it works. 🙂
So I was just saying that I had crazy on call and then our trip to Orlando for the Invitationals and then the holiday. So now we are back to work and are going to try to get caught up. He did get a ton of life experiences on our travels. He’s traveled a lot actually for being so young. But now we are settled in for the winter. Ready to get back into a regular routine.
I also said that his food drive is insane! So he is always acting like he is starving. He’s lean but not too skinny. I appreciate it since he gets alot of kibble all day for management. Yes, I had the food in my hoodie pocket. There is a bowl of kibble on the mantel for easy grabbing. So he was looking at that to see if he could help himself. LOL Which he’s been up there many times. He’s such a goat. He’s been on every surface in this house. Walks across xpens with covers and wire crates no problem. If it wobbles and falls no big deal. Teeter should be easy. Great idea to use lesser value food to see if that helps. Boring kibble. I was using cut up Lucys. I’ll get try this outside too where I have more room to get him chasing the toy. He’s got great prey drive and he’s good at tugging. At least he didn’t muzzle punch me in the eye like Letty did when we worked through this. LOL
So we attempted backing up tonight. The initial backup when well but then we struggled. I think I should use ‘get it’ instead of ‘yes’ and that might help him not be mugging my hand. And maybe bigger treats? I tried squatting down and that didn’t go any better. I could always do the backup to something method too.
Well, I wrote a long thing and then it bliped when I went to post and I lost it all. And I’m too tired to rewrite it. We’re happy to be back to work.
So here is Shaping In Arousal: Goat Tricks 1 (Baby Level)
and Wing Wrap Foundations kind of 1.5
Here are some week 1 exercises
Driving Ahead and Focus Forward
Decel and Turn – Drive to Handler
Blind Cross Foundation Fun
More Wing Wrap
Xrays on Wednesday. Hopefully all looks good with his toe.
Here is the 2 dish game. We had already done a session or two. I thought I had recorded them but I can’t find the videos. So we did dish to dish then I added a cone.
Here are the changes that you suggested. I feel like it went really well.
He broke his toe about 2 weeks ago so he’s taped for 4 weeks and not supposed to tug but he can still do some things so that is good. He thinks he is just fine.It’s been a mixed bag but the last few runs back in September were good. It’s been alot of learning for me. Things I know but forgot or was lazy about or just need to learn about her. What works best is tugging at the line and then taking the tug and dropping it and running. I can do that in USDAA. I have to look about AKC and CPE (just doing a few non-aframe runs since I am TS). But that gets her energy up. Then she runs beautifully. I made shorter courses for her too (FEO) and choose where to reward. CPE courses are shorter so there isn’t always a good place to break the flow to reward so then I would just do it and reward at the bucket with her leash. We haven’t done CPE in a year though. I don’t think she’s trialed at all since September outdoors USDAA. I did enter a few AKC trials coming up. Just a class a day. JWW or FAST if it’s offered. It’s at our most frequented training school. I think now a nose touch back start or a collar grab start would fire her up too. Her arousal is going up in general. I don’t know if that answered your question. LOL ‘It’s complicated.’ 🙂
I had hoped to get back to this class but the puppies have been all consuming. They go home Labor Day weekend so hopefully we’ll stick with the next class better before winter hits. We’ll keep working on these too before that class.
I’ll be watching for the next MaxPup to start also. But I’m in no rush. Puppy can grow up a bit. 🙂 Especially since it’ll be a boy. LOL
Thanks for a great class and amazing feedback as usual. We made a lot of progress in important areas! And had fun doing it.
Heather and Saphira
