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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-MariaI did a ring rental yesterday so we could take our games on the road in a semi familiar place. He’s visited this location a few times to watch agility classes and meet friendly dogs. I haven’t pulled the tunnel video but he was “insulted” by the tiny 5′ tunnel and kept running to take the big curved tunnel instead, LOL.
Turn and burn – words – Lulu is left wrap, Check-check is right wrap.
Turn aways – felt a little awkward on the lap turns
Stays 2 ways – need some clarification – if I’m starting with Catch, is it ok if Venture comes to me after every treat throw? He’s offering the sit but not leaving much space between us when he comes back. In theory I should begin taking half a step away while he’s sitting and slowly build up distance while using catch. Then work his break (drive to me) and get it drive ahead. Am I understanding this all correctly?
Jean-Maria and Venture
Thank you! That helps me break the mental logjam of “still working” on so much early stuff.
Here is Venture’s first experience with the “paw and eat” aka TNT. I didn’t include the entire second direction due to a several minutes long interlude of “surely if I paw this machine enough it will give up the goods without me running through the tunnel”. He did finally recover and continue doing the tunnel from further and further away from the entrance end.
I do need to find my tunnel bags but he wasn’t phased by the tunnel moving a little today so I went ahead with the game.
I’m struggling with when to move on to the next games vs continuing to work towards the more advanced versions. The games build on each other over time so do we need to get all the way to advanced level or move on, let the skills build, and come back to more advanced levels if we struggle later?
For example, we worked a more advanced level of back up to a large balance disk tonight.
Happy First night of Hannukah!
Jean-Maria and Venture>>We have plenty of time to bring the toys into training. He plays with them when food isn’t around, yes?
Yes. He plays tug with me, retrieves / chases his tribbles, plays with a squeaky toy and retrieves it. He also enjoys personal play. He can do the baby level wing wrap for two tugs.
Rear cross prop game. It feels like the value of driving to the prop is waning so tonight we played a short “go” to the prop across the room for high value cookies to reload it’s value. I’m wondering if I should have stopped once we did 3 left rear crosses as the session went downhill from there.
Huge difference using the food bowl.
Toys just don’t have high enough value to reward for work. yet. I hope.
Hi Tracy,
We did some more work on the rears and I have to cross behind him much sooner to get the left. No video today. We’ll work a bit more before I post another one for that.Need your help with the collection sandwich. Normally I wouldn’t post two videos for the same exercise but I want you to see the first session where I tried to use toys/then cookie when I couldn’t get engagement. Second video is after we came in and took a 2 hour nap. I swapped the toy for his target item (freezer bag) in an effort to get more drive ahead after the post turn. I’m not seeing anything like what I was getting with the rear cross game.
It occurs to me as I type this, we probably need to pull some pieces out? Not sure which ones. We started the way you showed in the video and then put the whole thing together for the videos.
Rear cross prop game. Filling in gaps from week 3 before starting week 4 games.
This is actually our second session playing the game. Video fail in the first session where he always turned the wrong way for both sides. Second session, switched to easy to see pieces of string cheese. He turned to the right no matter which side I crossed him from so half right. Thinking if he fixed one side during a break, maybe latent learning will fix the other side in a day or two? Or should I do something to help him turn the correct way when going left?
