Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Thanks Tracy, we played with the Week 6 Get Out Game this morning. He may be a foodie….but the cheapo Hartz Bacon Ball trumps it all!!! 🙂
Good morning….ooops guess it’s really afternoon, isn’t it? Short session this morning of the ZigZag …..mixed in with lots of startline stuff. He liked this one. I was going to do short session with the Go stuff but decided it’s too nice out so we’re heading out for some leaf raking 🙂 Have a good weekend.
Hi Tracy, thank you for the lengthy and thoughtful answer. I think you are probably exactly right about the driving ahead thing. He’s got great sends which allow me to almost always get ahead and he does like to drive and chase me down a line but that’s not the skill needed for a rear, is it?!? 🤪 I love your idea for me the handle the Go like the RC…. ie. stay by the barrel, start with preplaced reward. We’ll play with this some this week. It’ll be a good switch up for us both!!! Thanks again!!!
It does, Tracy…makes total sense. I don’t think I so much saw it but I “felt” it. We played with the Rear Cross/Turn and Burn over the weekend and I felt it with this too…..not the same drive out of the turn around the barrel as we went on. I’m thinking he’s telling me that the sessions are getting too long and/or too much thinking so I’m planning to play some of the handling games where he’ll get to run a little more….like the Diamond Game or something similar. Your thoughts?
And oh yeah…… on the next to the last rep of the rear crosses to his left I forget to use his Left verbal and on the next one I remembered. I don’t like that I forgot but I sure did like how it helped him understand the cross on the next one when I remembered 🙂
A little Minny Pinny today 😊 This was hard as there was a baggie of treats on the box behind him so incorporated a little leave the treats to get the treats training which made the overall session way too long to include all of it in the video… this felt like a really good session 😊
Have a great weekend!
More failures than I would have liked but he’s definitely growing up…. was able to stick with it, think through it and did not get frustrated 😊❤️😊 Interesting how our backside verbal is much stronger/clearer to him when coming from a straight line to the front of the jump….from the side is really hard!
I can’t believe we are already at Week 6, where does the time go? Are you planning a MaxPup 3 – Sly and I both hope so!!!! Take care, stay well.
Thanks Tracy…..we played Sends and Serps for breakfast again…it was supposed to be from the other side but clearly I hadn’t had enough coffee yet to figure out the spacial challenge of switching sides!!!
Here’s the Week 4, Wind in Your Hair Game with Rears and Wraps. Clearly RC’s are NOT my strong suit! Good boy Sly for hanging in with me. We both like our BS Wraps though 🙂
And here’s Sends and Serps
Upped the game for Sends and Serps 🙂 Outside, played for breakfast (HIGHLY desirable!!!) Now if I can just remember to switch my verbal cue from Left to Right we’ll be all set. Hope you had a good weekend. Sorry about the “butt shots” – someday I swear I’ll figure out camera locations!!!!
Good Morning….a couple of short sessions from yesterday. Ladder grid at 4-8-4. Seemed to go well 🙂 Once again more time spent on the stay than the actual grid 🙂 I tried to remember to be a good dog trainer and did this going in the other direction 🙂
And then we did Find the Jump going in the other direction. The setup with the tunnel under the dogwalk is what’s setup for lessons this week and I’m too lazy to move stuff so figured I’d see if it worked OK for this exercise. So when we did it yesterday from the other direction I was too lazy to move the tire so gave it a try with the tire and it seemed to work. Hope that was all OK. And yes, I did see what you are saying about how he thought it might be a threadle in some of the first time we did this. Now I’m not sure if I “corrected” my handling when we did it yesterday. Hmmmmm… Have a great weekend!
Thanks Tracy….sounds like Exie is having a great birthday! We played with the Ladder Grid and with Finding the Jump out of a Tunnel a bit today. Two short sessions that both felt really good!!! He was really engaged and his stays were great 🙂 Ladder grid was 4’6″, first jump at 4″, 2 and 3 at 6″
Hi Tracy….Happy Birthday Exie!!!! There is a LOT of stuff in this class – I LOVE it! We played with Sends and Serps yesterday 🙂
We’re back……. We did some work with the sit while we were at camp and he’s definitely more comfortable “sitting straight”, not a real tight tuck but balanced side to side, not rolled over on one hip. This exercise really “pushes” his startline stay. So, LOTS of rewards for the sit, lots of catch and slow leadouts when actually doing the jumping. This is a sample of the whole session which was fairly long with all the stay rewarding.
This is at 4’6″ and 10″.
Thanks for the info on the sit training…..perfect! All set on the “click” the box for email replies now too!!! And Kristie….I’m happy to have anyone that wants to watch Sly….I’m kinda partial to the little guy 🙂 Both of you guys have a great weekend. We’re headed to northern Maine in the morning to let Mags do what she loves more than anything in the world…a little bird hunting. See you next week!
You’re good! No his back feet were not tight under him. He was doing sort of a sloppy puppy sit. We’ve done a couple of short sessions at 4’6″ with the bars at 8″. Both of them turned almost totally into sessions of working on the stay. I got a bit obsessed with getting him to sit tighter which made him a bit antsy and he started to go to “that place” where he gets frantic. So I backed up and didn’t fuss with how he was sitting and just that he was waiting for a release…lots of “catch”. I’m thinking that I’m going to put this “on the shelf” for a few days….or a week or so. Work on the sit by itself first, then when that’s a bit more comfortable we’ll go back to this exercise. Good plan? Also any suggestions for teaching a tight tuck sit?
Oh yeah….hope you can help with this. In the summer session I would get an email whenever you replied to one of my posts. For some reason that’s not happening with this session. Any ideas as to why? Very likely could be something on my end…..technology and I are having more than one disagreement these days!
