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Hi Tracy – its been a few weeks since I last posted, which is shocking for me, but there’s a lot going on right now (even though I’m now retired, with no husband to look after LOL!). We tried the Sequences from Game Package 2, as I have been working on Yowza’s collection for turns – but I hope I am not teaching her to go slow – please guide me here – I do not want to teach her to slow down too much because I am teaching her to collect too much!
Here is our baseline for Exercise 1 – she had the bar down after the tunnel the 2nd time round – I’m not sure why.
I am thinking she maybe slowing down TOO much – what do you think?
Then we ran it again the next day (today) – I tried not to use so many collection cues – she took the off course on her 2nd time round – but took it when we repeated, when this time I added more collection cues. We repeated the whole sequence once more, where I added a spin for the last turn in to the tunnel, but I don’t think she really needed it….
PS – just realized, I forgot to send her to the last jump after the tunnel, which would have been in extension…..Our first session yesterday was with 12 straight poles, with R side entries, and a few easy L side entries.
Later in the day we did the L side entries with just 6 poles. She did still find these entries difficult when I moved quickly right after I sent her. I am thinking I should try these next with just 4 poles, as you suggested.
>>I can switch you over: did you want a working spot? <<
Yes – I would to love to have a working spot for Yowza – thanksYesterday we did another session of the End Position game – I started with her waiting at the end of the board, and then switched to having her hop onto the board – and I tried to add in a little movement. I also tried very hard not to say “yes” to her (but this is my clicker equivalent verbal – so she understands it as an automatic release, but I understand why I shouldn’t use it here) – but a few did slip in occasionally.
I thought this went quite well, so today we tried the the bang game again. She had some problems finding the treat in the grass – so I tried using the toy instead, but she still wanted to find her treats. In the end I got much better at throwing the treat right into her mouth – so then things went a bit better….
Continuing to work on the end position – I followed your suggestion of asking her to wait at the end of the board, then walking away some distance, I released her and gave her the “hit it” cue. I thought we were more successful with this, as she kept her head focused forward, and I did my best to aim the treat at her mouth, or the target. What do you think?
Here are our 2 sessions from today. She did better in the first than the second. I am trying to start walking/running as soon as I have sent her to the entry – but she is sometimes missing entry on L side if I am moving too fast – so I am playing around with that. In the 2nd session, she missed that entry a lot, so I slowed it down, and I didn’t put her through the second set of poles at all. Do you think I should open the poles up a bit?
Yes, I did sign up for “Putting it all Together” – I thought that was the sequel to these courses! – duh! – but I thought that the “Camp” was only for more experienced dogs – if you think Yowza could cut it, I would love to put her in it. Please lmk – thanks!So I’m still struggling with changing the end position for Yowza. This video is a little longer b/c I wanted to see some of the things I was struggling with. I made sure to keep the target in position, close to the end – but she wasn’t consistently stopping in position, so I simultaneously put the treat on the target as she hopped into position. Then I gradually started moving away a little, and if she stayed in position I rewarded her a lot – sometimes on target, sometimes throwing it to her to catch it, or releasing her with “ok” to get the treat. She stayed in position while I went to get more treats, so I rewarded her for that. I also rewarded her for looking forward, rather than at me. I think we are making some progress, so if you agree – I will move on to some of the other exercises as well.
When is the last day for posting videos? – I am hoping I can continue these games in the next Max Pup course 🙂
Here are a couple of videos of the Box Cars we did over the weekend. I wasn’t sure if you meant for her to get rewarded after the 6th pole for all of the reps or not – so I started off rewarding after the 6th, then tried having her weave the 2nd set before rewarding. She had quite a few oopsies, but I think she’s getting it. We’ll do a couple more sessions tomorrow.
PS – I am wondering when this course finishes, and we can no longer post videos – I think it must be soon 🙁
Well, I didn’t do a very good job of following your directions today – first, I forgot to do another session with box cars apart, increasing motion and difficulty of entries. Instead, I started out doing 1 rep with them 8ft apart (as in last session) – then I moved them in to 4ft apart for 2 reps, then put them together for 2 reps. that was the first session.
Then later in the evening, we did all reps with the poles together – I gradually started to increase my motion. She popped out at the 10th in 1 rep, so I dialed the motion back for following reps.
Dunno what happened to my brain today! 🙁
We did 2 sessions today – both with the Box Cars game – first she ran poles 7-12 and then 1 to 6 – we did one set with 1 to 6 followed by 7-12, given that she went straight in the entry of the 2nd box car the first time we did the first box car (1-6).
In the 2nd session, she did both box cars for the entire session.
We did 2 sessions today with 6 straight poles – the first with a tug toy for reward, and the second with frisbee and treat fro rewards, as you suggested. She did pretty well, with a couple or so oopsies, but she soon got it right when I dialed back the motion a bit.
Today we tried the end position on the plank again – this time starting her from the side. When I added in some motion, I noticed that sometimes she stretched forward, but then when I walked back, she went into the bow position, but this time with her hind feet on the board, and front on the ground – is that OK? – in your last note you pointed out that she backed up into this position on the board, but is it OK with 2 feet off?
Today I tried the End Position game on a board (with a little wobble from Fit-bones). I think maybe I should have gone back and watched your video of this, as I’m not sure at all whether I was doing this right – I think I should have been tossing the treat more – maybe good to use the MM here?
So here’s the session we did today, with the poles totally closed. I did notice that she pushed some of the poles apart a little, so I had to keep putting them back in. I’ll have to tighten them all up, once she’s weaving straight poles consistently. She started off really well, but then I think she found it difficult to keep the rhythm going sometimes – but then got it right the second time. I thought this showed how hard she had to focus to get into the rhythm. I think maybe I shouldn’t have used the frisbee for this session, as that is probably her most exciting toy – the tug toy might have been better.
Today we tried tightening up the poles a little more. I put all into the center, apart from #4 which was left a little way out, as you suggested. At first Yowza thought she’d never seen this before, so I opened pole #2 a little as well. this seemed to help, and after that, she got back into the “groove”! I gradually moved poles 2 and 4 back in, until all were in, except #4 was still out a teesny weensy bit. I didn’t have time to do a 2nd session today, so will hopefully do it first thing tomorrow morning – and get them all in!
So I finally got my seesaw painted with some sandy paint – its very non-slippery now, but some of it is already chipping off – bbut I’ll just patch it up as I go along, seeing as its only temporary.
I figured it would be best to start the new 2o2o end position with the Bang game – so here’s what we did. I was very unsure what behaviors to click for – I guess I want a “laid back” 2o2o, which she did frequently b/c she was still offering a down sometimes. However she did once offer a 1RTO which is what I have been teaching her for the DW and AFrame – should I allow this, or should I only click weight back 2o2os? – at this point, I was clicking for anything where she had 2 feet on, and 2 feet off.
