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Thanks Tracy!
Here is week 1 standard 2 first attempt.
I got lost on the first one at the end. Reverted back to course 1 after the super wide turn out of the tunnel. I didn’t notice the bar down after the teeter and forgot to reset it. Using her name seemed to be the key to getting her to turn out of the tunnel. It ran really nice.
Thank you!
We attempted the first Standard course from week 1 last night. I did not appreciate the complexity of it. Here are our attempts:
Oh my goodness! I am not surprised I missed the wrap since I struggled with that when I walked it so at some point I forgot it for good. And that’s crazy that I assumed backside and didn’t double check it. LOL
We gave it another go tonight. The first one I got lost but her wrap was so pretty so I left it in. The next one she went to the backside instead of doing the wrap. So I played with it a few times to see if I was doing something. And I need to keep scatter cookies in my pocket to shut her up when I’m thinking. LOL Next rep was pretty good. I could do better but it was good enough so we quit there. It was a really fun course. I was most impressed with her going to 3 so I could go across the line and get the blind in on 5. A little bit of “I’m going to the toy” at the end until I reminded her there is more course to do first.
Also, Saphira ran little sequences at her in person class tonight off leash and didn’t run away (or knock over barriers) to visit friends. We’re making progress!
Thanks for the awesome feedback.
Like 10 days after I bought some tunnel bags from Clean Run they put them on sale for 20%. Ugh! LOL
I was mostly happy with this course and surprised at how “easy” it was for us. We just struggled with the jump after the last tunnel exit. I tried to push to the backside but she really needed a strong push to go and I tried doing one with I think a lap turn – pull dog in as you step back then flick them out. Both of them I got stuck there so it got messy.
First one I got lost. Second one I did the backside. Third one I did the lap turn thing.
Finally done with 4 weeks of on call and a 14 hour day on Saturday. Hopefully we’ll have lots of time to play agility now. Except almost 100 for the next 2 days!!! I did get the agility area watered the last 2 days so that helps. The ground was so dry and hard and dusty and probably slippery.Week 1 Jumpers Course 2 Attempt 1
I think she usually hits the wing on the backside serps. Like she slices too tight and her shoulder hits the wing.
We’ve been working on 14. I was going to put it back in the sequence last night but then the neighbor came over to bale the pasture and I’m not trusting Mazi to work with strange men in the yard even though she would most likely ignore them. So we we able to play with it today. Thankfully it stayed overcast and even started raining a bit. We fumbled a bit since I hadn’t been practicing me moving past it but then we got it. Sadly bar 2 was down but really who cares – we got 14. Using my left arm on the push (and saying the right word) helped alot.
With 3 tunnels setup right now I’m tunnel bag poor! I just bought another set of 4 bags. But I could probably use another 4. Or even 8 since I only have 4 on the puppy’s setup. $$$$$$$$ LOL
I do like the line from doing a threadle slice on 14. I just don’t know if I’ve worked on those with her in a setup like this. Are there any other courses that I should go back to and review the skill?
Should I move on to the next Jumpers course?Here is jumping course 1 – we could not get past 14. I tried to push on the first one but backside slices are super hard for her. So then I tried pulling but we don’t have that skill.
Also, not sure if it’s possible to make 2 more fluid for her of if the collection is good and she’s being safe. Slices are hard.Here are our redos of the ‘right’ vs ‘go’. I worked on it by breaking it down with cheese then a toy and back chained it at add in speed. Here are the full sequences again. Much better. Should we move on to doing the full courses now? Start with Jumping?
We played with the skills sequences tonight. (Saphira even did the first sequence forwards and backwards. Not in the video.) Mazi has good go and tunnel but not so much right. But I’m sure I screwed up the handling and didn’t help her out. I got the last sequence but then wanted to try to get a tighter turn. On the next one she knocked the wing over but once we were done I saw her Seresto collar pulled apart on the ground so she must have gotten it caught on the jump cups. We did 16″.
Thank you so much for all of your help! We are finally making progress! She’s starting to look like an agility dog.
We went back to the scene of the crimes. I just worked on transitions from tug to wing. She’s slow but she stayed with me. I also blocked off other areas better and was surprised she didn’t knock the fences over to get to go exploring. I blocked off the door too with an accordion gate and she totally respected it. It was locked too just in case.
I brought her in later for another session after working Mazi. We were good until dogs started coming in for a class on the other side of the wall and they were barking like crazy. Saphira started freaking out and tried to get through the doors to get to the party happening without her on the other side. She’s so smart that she was even pounding on the doors that we never use. But I had a tug on a leash and got her to chase it and got her back with me and eventually she stayed with me with just food (turkey meat) even with the barking. It was super messy but we worked through it and it turned out to be a huge win. Puppies are HARD!
So just wanted to post an update since it’s been awhile. Still super crappy cold, windy, snowy weather here.
Engagement is hard for her everywhere. LOL
I guess I expect her to bring the toy back to me but I should know by know that it magically isn’t going to happen. I’ll work more on that. I’ll see if I can find a way to make a long toy for that game too. And really she’s not going very fast so if I just walk straight and close to the wing then I should be able to get her over it and be able to reward without it getting wrapped around things.
OK I will try those things for the parallel path game too. I feel like she’s not loving the collar grabs either so I’ll put more value into those too.
Thursday I rented space at OTR so we worked on set point with more room, WIYH, and the smile game. We do puppy class in this room with Shenna too. I put her up in the van between SP/WIYH and Smile while I setup the tunnel. I totally intended to use all of the tunnel bags but then it looks like I forgot! I’m losing my mind already! Anyways, on the way in for the second round we saw 2 dogs outside and I talked to the owner for a few minutes. Not even any playing. Well after the first thing I did with her she did it then ran to the door and jumped on it and it opened and she ran off to find the dogs. So then I locked the door but she still would do something and run off to bang on the door again. So I wasn’t able to get 2 wraps in. But she loves the tunnel I guess. LOL I feel good about Set Point at least.
We got some stuff setup outside the other day. Outside is hard! She found a ball outside that she liked so I tried to use it to my advantage. I cut out all her running away and ignoring me parts.
At the beginning of the session I tried to do WIYH but she just ran off. So at the end I just did some parallel path game with food. I think I need different food for throwing outside so next time I’ll use string cheese.
