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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.
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.
