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here are two shaping the tunnel sessions. The bigger take away from the training is that he is letting me know when he is done and this is probably not a good thing. š
It was also clear to me that in session two he was not really ready for the advanced behavior with the threadle – it was too much pressure.
I took another stab at turn and burn. Iāve switched over to the laundry Barrel and also transitioned to a toy which seems to be going well. I think I spent too much time on this particular training session. Pesto let me know when he was finished by picking up the rope and carrying it off into the toy tunnel.
Ok – I am still here, just a little behind. I’m working life skill stuff simultaneously and I was away the last few days.
I’ve been working the backing up skill quite a bit, so I thought I would post where we are. Sometimes he is backing up not on to the mat – my gut is to still reward. Because of his size, I’ve found that sitting in a chair works best – should I start working this into a stand?
Here is our video on parallel path. In one direction it looks like he needs more distance – or does he not understand the game? The send was a little confusing for him at first because I think he thought I was throwing a treat. I didn’t move on to the send back because this seemed like as much as his brain could handle in the session. The session was over 4 minutes
He is doing great out in thew world. I’m working on getting him to redirect to me when he interacts or wants to interact with people and dogs. Dogs are harder than people but he had a great session in Boston yesterday in Arnold Arboretum which was full of people and people walking dogs.
I’ve also been working retrieves and need to get you some video – I was doing this not knowing it was in this week’s homework.
I feel like the little brain is turning on – 20 weeks!
This all makes sense – I usually play with him on the ground which is less overwhelming.
I pick him up all the time – safety issue, getting him into the crate – not an offered behavior – so this is a big rethink – he definitely is less confident about the world when I am carrying him around
Even clipping on the leash triggers stress. His harness is a step in – should I try a martingale?
Obsessing #dontruinthepuppyOk – and now on to decel. I quickly discovered that although I have a sit and a down, I have no duration so I switched to throwing food. Pesto is great coming to my right but not as much the left especially when we adding the turning. I started the front cross but stopped – want feedback on this first so I can work the left side more.
Dear Abby – I mean Tracy
My puppy will do the focus forward but he doesnāt naturally come back to me and when I attempt to get him he thinks itās a game.I included the longer clip so you can see the interaction in between the game session.
My big issue is getting him to want to come back to me.
I know he doesnāt like the collar grab (attempt #1) so I switched to a restrained hold which I donāt think was a big favorite either. Perhaps this relates to the keep away from the Momma. HOWEVER I am starting to see the chase me game where he gets me to chase more generally. Iām wondering if I need him leashed whenever he is out of the crate.
So I think I mentioned in a text that i dropped a piece of cheese at the start line which I did not realize was stuck to my hand. I’m including the video before so you can see what happened. Because of the miss step with the start I sent her off course before the first jump and then did not set the line to the tunnel and instead sent her to visit the ring crew – good girl. We recovered together thankfully. I also goofed up on the second run by putting her down on the ground facing the jump so she took it and then I was playing catch up. She is learning to be resilient to my screw ups.
As for these AKC courses at this level at least – they are not designed for fast dogs. I saw experienced handlers had trouble with these lines. I also found myself having to do rear crosses, in part because of the lines set by the judge, as well as the spacing of the jumps.
I was very proud of her dogwalk to the table.Hi, thanks for the quick feedback.
Yes, we are doing another day of AKC – today it is at a different location – United Dog, her training building, so I am expecting a bit more confidence in the building.
The runs are not until this afternoon.
We are entered in Nov JWW and STD
https://fasttimesagility.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Lower-Bucks-May-Sunday-maps.pdf
Nov STD has a table after the DW and it is once again near the gate and 6 feet from a jump- ugh. I probably will not want to drop and run on this one.
NOV JWW has one of those classic pinwheels.*Next weekend I am doing one day of UKI at Get Rev’d in Elkton, MD (taking it on the road).
Here are two AKC runs from today that were not run NFC. We did our pre-ring routines both times.
In the standard run I did our engagement at the startline and then started running. Not sure why she turned to look the other way – did I take too long to start running? Do you think the engagement at the start line was weak? She definitely felt some pressure in the ring on this run which resulted in her leaving me but she did come back and recovers. When she runs off course she ran in the direction of where the leash walker was walking and was in motion. I think this stress came as a result of the following: the judge was this big guy and he was very close when I held her on the teeter (probably too long of a hold), then I set the wrong line and she went off course. She started to come back and then I think she got worried and left. I got her back and she was able to recover and finished well. I could see that when I cue’d the weaves her step picked up and she accelerated. I think I need to do more work on having a Judge in the ring.
The jumpers run, I started with the engagement and then asked for the line up without the sit which worked really nicely. There a few spots of disconnection and in reviewing the video I can see that there was something outside the ring that caught her head after she came out of the tunnel which I think might be why she didn’t take the jump – watch her head. I don’t know if a dog outside the ring barking is a threshold issue or something else but would like to get your recommendations.
Here we go – I think she was a little confused being carried out to the middle. I tried my through the leg line up after a jump up and she was not interested so I just did another jump up and started running without a stay. We did 5 obstacles and rewarded. I thought I set a line to the end but it was harder than I realized so you will see a moment of sniffing. She came back and I tried to reset which was a second fail so we just finished and had a big celebration.
We have two more to go – jumpers and gamblers.
Iām going to start at #2 and do a loop
https://k9trialservices.com/files/2022/KACMay/2022KACMayBNSunday.pdfRun 2 – so even without asking for the sit I still got the shake and she did not want to wait. You canāt see the whole set up here. And I am now going to have to put the lotus ball on a rope which is new but I guess thatās good. She was extremely fast and my handling was off in places but I guess thatās secondary.
My goal with the first reward was that she took the second tunnel having to run towards the gating.
Run #3
So here is our gamble which I decided to do without a toy and just let it rip. For our purposes I want to know if not having the toy lowered the level of engagement. She gave me the engaged behavior and then turned around like she was looking for her treats which Iāve seen her do in class from time to time. I got her back and just started running. It was our most connected run of the weekend. Lots of video of the warm up thankfully for you to review.As you know I have been focusing on the pattern games, engagement and recall work. I’ve also been working on adding new behaviors like a bark on demand, and some front paw value using a bowl as offered behavior.
I have three videos to share (which are not short) but I figure I haven’t posted that many videos so I have a little bit of money in the bank. š
Pattern Games and Engagement Pt 1 – I started this video outside in the backyard (slightly more distracting than the basement which is our training site with no distractions). In this video the treats were provided rapidly from my pocket or was already out and provided. What was funny during this video was that when I was asking for a bark I triggered the names dog to start barking which you can hear faintly in the background. I then moved the same behaviors to a new location where I have never worked with her. I then added Mimi in the background behind the fence. A little bit of latency but I think this was all fairly strong.
Part 2 of this series:
In this session I started with some treats in my pocket but she saw me put the treats on fence post where most of the rewards were coming from. I started with the fence gate open and I think this through her off a bit. The neighbor next door was also walking back and forth in the driveway. When she is in the fenced in yard on her own she will often bark at the children playing on the driveway so I think this contributed to latency, as well as the fact that we had to go to the rewards which were behind her.I liked watching this session because as we worked together her response rate and engagement improved.Final video in the series. This video are clips of Skipper during the course of her turns at the Jen Pinder seminar. I start with a pattern game/warm up. This video was painful to put together because it was so obvious to me what happened over time and I am embarrassed and should know better.
She was good in her first turn. In her second turn she had to start facing the people (her hardest start behavior and this place has no fencing). She was also facing a bowl that had been used with a previous dog to teach a jumping behavior. This was very tough. When Jen had me set Skipper up closer to the jump with me closer to Skipper that extinguished the bowl. The last turn I had a lot less money in the bank right out of the box. At this point her threshold for recovering from perceived failure combined without reinforcement and engagement on my part translated into the behavior that was also evident at the seminar we did a few weeks ago. Lots of good information here.
I was just outside with Skipper and thinking about the fact that she was finding the environment more reinforcing than coming to me in the barn yesterday. A similar situation has occurred at home when she has sneaks out under the fence and goes to explore the neighbors yard where there is garbage and all sorts of shit. It was very hard to recall her back to the house.
And this may seem obvious, but I think I need to get her to choose me over the environment by giving her the choice and rewarding the right choice. My thought is to put some very low value crumbs on the floor and let her have at it but then call her to me with a much more high value reward. I would work this and begin to eventually create some latency.
This is actually similar to a game in Recallers called Cookies in the Corner which involves throwing cookies into the corner while you restrain the dog, release to the cookies and then get them to chase you after they eat the cookies. Here it’s not so much about the chase and I want to have a hierarchy of reward.
What are your thoughts?
Instead of posting my video of Skipper being perfect in my basement, I thought would ask your thoughts on the best ways to build offered engagement in other environments.
Yesterday’s seminar was gold. I will say that this is the worst I ever seen it. I think you can see that once she starts doing agility – which she loves – her resilience is much hire.
We will also see you again on Monday. š
