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Thank you for all of the great feedback!
We did some set point quick tonight. I was having some issues with her staying. I’m not sure if you can hear me reminding myself that puppies need HARD connection when you lead out. (I forget EVERYTHING in the 5 years between puppies.) That magically fixed the problem. Funny how that works. Bumps are about 6′ apart. We did them on the other side first but I was blocking the camera so switched to this side. Much better with biting. I marked her with “cookies” when she was tugging well.
I’m really glad that there are Contraband videos in this class. He seems like he was a slower maturing puppy too. Like he’s not very fast when he was a puppy doing inside things but then later he’s super fast when he’s older and outside.
I’m wrapping up a crazy work schedule the last few weeks with 12 hour on call days this week. So next week I’ll finally have time to rent space at OTR and/or the snow will be melted enough to work outside since we’re high 40s low 50s this week. I think she’ll really enjoy opening up more.‘Yes’ is engrained in me soooooo deeply! I use a bunch of other marker words but when I’m not on my game then yes is the default to come out of my mouth.
Here is some Wind In Our Hair fun. My wings are in the baby shed across the property held in by snow and probably ice. Hopefully a few can be released this week. Oh I do have some in the sheep barn. Duh! I’ll dig them out!
So many rules that I forgot today.
1) Use thrown toy marker. I went from ‘yes’ to ‘get it’ and it should have been ‘zoom’. ‘Get it’ is my thrown food marker.
2) Toy in off hand seemed to help but I forgot most times.
3) Hold hands lower when asking for tug – up seems to mean jump on me (and apparently bite me).
4) When she spits toy to bite me don’t pick it up – make her pick it up and bring it to me.
But she loved the game and caught on fast and didn’t even care when she knocked the can over. And she brought the toy back to me and didn’t run off to hoard it somewhere.Here are our wrap verbals and moving targets
She was loving the wrap verbal exercise – easy peasy
When I did the moving target exercises on the end of the livingroom that we don’t usually work on (camera location) she got really sticky. But when I did them on the usual side then she did great. I worked both sides too.We’re still poking along. We worked on some tight turns tonight. It’s not great but it’s a start and she didn’t leave. LOL
Thoughts on our rear crosses to The Thing? I cut out treat reloads
What skills should we have for the next class? If we do a working spot and we’re behind can we post exercises from this class still?
I dug a metal garbage can out of the snow in the backyard and brought it up on the porch. Perfect wraps! So I’m going to go get another one tomorrow so we can do 2 barrel things.
Here are some baby lap turns that we worked on tonight. Apparently they are hard for her brain and require string cheese and not pet fresh.
Look at us all sexy! We had to work out some bugs but we got the basic pattern. Just need to add distance to her stay. She had a harder time staying on the left side so I rewarded the stay more.
I just showed her the MM this morning in the kitchen.I think we can mark this lesson as Complete. We did it with treats in a bowl and a toy. I cut out parts where she took her toy and left. I tried to do both sides and had to think about it on the last one but I think I remembered wrong and did them all the same way. So much to think about!
I have not introduced her to the manners minder yet outside of it being on top of her xpen to try to feed her when she would see the cats (did’t work lol).
I dug out my uprights and a jump bump (goes back to puppy Letty days) but I haven’t introduced her to the jump yet either. She did see them in class once a month or so ago for a baby grid exposure. She’s doing parallel path for The Thing so I’ll go find the lecture where we add the jump.
Thanks! We’ve been slowly plugging away but not videoing much.
Not pulling up on the tug is helping alot.
Here is some Strike a Pose with food
Is there a PDF for Tunnel Threadle: Verbal Cue and Double Whammy?
Also, Advanced Retrieving: The Reverse Retrieve is loading weird. It loads twice and the top version is reversed coloring. And the video on the bottom under ramp it up show an error.Thanks Tracy! We’re still plugging away and starting to pick up speed. Hopefully we can get caught up before the next class.
