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>> Perfect timing after your trip!
Yes! Really glad it didn’t start while I was gone so I don’t feel behind… yet.
>> Do you remember that patten game from Maxpup 1? Use it to get him ignoring people… and then put ‘go say hi’ on a cue so he does get his fill of hugs and kisses
Will go look and practice it this week. He’s so social and most of the time that is a very good thing.
I think I followed everything but we’ll see. I stopped/started videos more tonight so overall I could give you shorter total running time.
The first two videos are us running the pattern discussed above in one direction and then the other direction. The 3rd video, I went back to work just the tandem turn coming out of the tunnel and Venture demonstrated the ridiculous tunnel behavior he started this week, WT#? I have not laughed a single time he’s done it; hoping it extinguishes quickly. Anyway, see if we’re doing ok on the tandem turns please.
85 with 80% humidity so we were both melting. More rain coming in tonight and tomorrow night so ground may be too wet to work for a couple days. I have intentionally avoided rear crosses for a couple weeks now so my plan is to go back and work those exercises next to see if latent learning has been my friend.
Jean-Maria and Venture
I’m struggling to get my head around the handling for the starfish. Is it reasonable to picture a jump extending out from each wing like the arms of a starfish? Hoping you can see this picture of the starfish course with my handling notes.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HQTZo2orRGitbeA36
I think a tandem turn, when the dog crosses my path is what I’ve called in-in with past dogs. Not sure if that’s the best name longer term. I’m not sure the dog would generalize that behavior to a “switch” at a distance in an ASCA gamble.
Jean-Maria and Venture who wishes the wind would stop blowing the wings over
I think I messed up the accordion exercise in class Wed night. I re-watched the video and I put 4′ between the jumps when I moved them out so they were actually spaced double and triple the 4′ spacing he usually sees. I went ahead and did the exercise again using 4′ to see if anything changed from Wed class.
I know he broke his stay on the first rep and again later. We worked stays separately inside out of the wind this afternoon. He’s usually more solid but the wind was brutal today and storms are rolling in tonight. The wind is the reason I didn’t put out wings either. I couldn’t keep them standing up.
I think his jumps looked more even today than in class. Should I continue with 4′ or back down to 3′ and 6′ spacing for the last jump when I move it out? Do you think he could handling a little bit wider spacing, maybe 4′ 6″?
Layering Foundations with tunnel from both sides
Not on video – we back chained to the tunnel last night. This morning we tried to work/film with tug toy and next door started up the mower just on the other side of the fence and startled him. We took a break, tried again but the mower was still running. Post total eclipse and before it heated back up, I switched to chunks of freeze dried chicken for what you see on the video.Severe weather coming in for next 48 hours, risk of tornados, severe thunderstorms, and hail up to baseball size. We may not get much more work done before Wed evening’s class.
Jean-Maria and Venture
Layering Foundations
I realized after we worked that I should have been shifting the first wing closer to the tunnel as I moved that direction. Oops. It’s in the 80s again today and after we went this direction, Ven told me he was hot and I think that’s why his enthusiasm for the toy waned. Plus it’s later in the day so he’s getting hungry so the kibble in my pocket had higher value than intended. We’ll work the other direction when the yard is in shade.Do you think this direction is ready to add the tunnel?
Yeah, I made a note to go back and work on him holding his stay while I lower a toy to the ground.
I haven’t tried to mix cookies and tug lately. In the past, once he saw food he didn’t want the tug. I’ll go back now that he’s more toy focused and see if I can use it for setting him up and getting a release.
Weather wasn’t too bad here. Now we have 20 mph wind again.
It hit me during the night, for the ladder, I’ve usually used a tug to get more drive. So here’s a quick video with slightly less space/less angle. I think I need to add the space back.
Looks like Venture needs to work on letting go of the tug and holding his stay in the face of it dropping to the ground.
and I thought to use the heavier wings where he holds his stay but looking at the video, the front coming in and tornado watch meant even the heavy wings were shaking and rocking.
Jean-Maria and Tugging Venture 😀
Makes sense. Not submitting another video yet but we did a couple sessions today with loaded food bowl and he was close to 100% left and right today. When he wasn’t naughty and skipped the wrap to just go scarf up the treat in the bowl. He’s been quite wild today.
Here is our beginning the ladder advanced. I’m not sure what I think here. We worked baby yesterday and today and it all looked fine. I’m going to post the baby version below. No need to watch it unless you think it will help figure out if I moved to advanced too soon.
Baby version:
Jean-Maria and the naughty knothead Ven
Venture, Wind in your hair, pt 2, take 5000
Finally making progress on the left. I think our struggles are related to his love of wrapping wings. Oops, we need to do more forward work. So we did a bunch of parallel path, mini pinny to the left left left, and even back chained by setting a target, standing in front of the jump and releasing him from my left side to target on left side of jump landing.
In the past I’ve used hup-left and hup-right for rear crosses. Not sure that’s my best option for a verbal but he doesn’t know any verbal for this right now and clearly left/right isn’t strong enough to use it by itself right now. Switch or the ancient “back” command is not direction specific and we need to be able to do ASCA gambles at 20′ so I’m unsure if that is best either.
Thoughts?
Jean-Maria and Venture who wants to know why it is already 80 degrees here.>>What struggles do other dogs have there?
The building rattles in the wind, the noise level is high, the dirt has lots of animal smells, metal bleacher noises, flags flapping at the entrance. So many dogs are uncomfortable with the noise, lighting, building rattling, etc. The outside of the rings is horse fencing so people and dogs walking by distract some dogs. It’s all things you can train IF the environment doesn’t bother them.
>> 15″ he’s just under right now as long as he doesn’t hold his head high. We mostly do AKC and ASCA so he’ll have to jump 16″ in those venues unless I move him to preferred/ace.
Video!!! use of the outside arm – I was re-watching the discussion of the get out game because Ven is struggling with not going to his beloved prop.
Venture – going through mat – second session but first time with TnT. I think it throws him off when the reinforcement is off my body.
Alternative rear cross – felt very awkward, is my spacing off?
Jean-Maria and Venture
In the live class, you promised to post a video about something. I don’t remember exactly what but here’s your reminder to post the video, LOL.
Jean-Maria
