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Just wanted to let you know that we are still here! The rest of life has been challenging these last couple of weeks and Millie is clearly demonstrating her teenageness!!!! Working through some issues between her and Sly that I thought were pretty much behind us and none of us are getting enough physical exercise or outside time because it’s been so freaking cold. Anyway……could be worse and we all actually got out today for some fun in the snow after a little training. No video but we’re focusing right now on jungle gyms, backing up and retrieving. Progress on all fronts š I’ve been trying to lookback and see what items we “missed” along the way….one of them was tunnel threadles – she nailed the one to her left but really struggled with the one to her right. We’ll play with that again sometime soon.
We are now splitting a private lesson with another young dog with Lo every other week, mostly I wanted to see if she could “work” in a new/busy location. Went to the first one a week ago. She was freaking incredible!!! She could tug, she could focus, she could run up and down a DW plank resting on a table, ran through her tunnels and drove out to her preplaced toy, wrapped around a big cone. She had fun!!!!
Have a great weekend!!!The Cato board was the closest thing I had that adds some height and is a bit narrower for backing up. Not sure I like itā¦.seems like itās just a little too high and a little too narrow. What do you think? Close enough to work with or should I see if I can get Jim to make me something? Sheās really thinking about picking up her feet, definitely working that core! I just had an idea as to how to make it not quite so high. Iāve got some extra mats, wonder if I could stack a couple in front of the boardā¦.if you canāt lower the platform, raise the floor. I think if I can do that that it might work! Wish Iād thought of that today!
Serpentines off the other side and this time with the MM. Not sure why I was holding my hand with the target so high! Maybe a left hand, right hand thing š¤·āāļø Iāll have to be more aware of that. A little later we did a few reps with the same setup with the Threadle Slice.
3 videos from several short sessions the last couple of days.
Really happy with how backing up is going. I need to watch your video to figure out what the next step is. I think weāre ready š
Better with the connection on the Rocking Horses but still need to work on the cue for the next barrel happening sooner. I think I need to spread the barrels out more? Geez, she is a big girl š³
Thrilled with these two sessions of Strike a Pose. Do I need to still be a little closer to the jump?
Yes! Latent learning for the win! We did a few backing ups this morning and on the 3rd (turned out to be the last) I ended up throwing the treat far enough behind me that whenever Iāve done that before Millie would go all the way through my legs instead of backing up. This time she backed up – jackpot!!!! All the remaining treats!!!
2nd session today of the Serp Concept Transfer gameā¦.I asked for one too many stays š The good thing from that was it forced me to work out my mechanics to be able to do this from a thrown treat.
Tomorrowās planā¦.. Strike a Pose with a toy and some Rocking Horsesā¦..with connection š
Been playing around with Backing Up…. I tried your idea of the 2 Cato Boards; well 1 Cato Board and 1 exercise step and not sure exactly why but if I didn’t stand up she didn’t seem to understand to move away. Sometimes she’d take a step but my timing on throwing the treat “under” her was really inconsistent and it just didn’t seem to be helping her get the idea. (I was trying to think in terms of dog learning and not me teaching š ) One of the things that she really gets is targeting/props so I tried having her put her back feet on a couple of things (turned out the mat/rug seemed to work the best, big enough and didn’t slide) and then used that to get her to move backwards. I think it helped her move backwards. My thinking is to continue this way and get further away so she has to take more backwards steps and then fade the mat? What do you think?
Concept Transfer with the Strike a Pose Game…..you’re using a none wing jump. Is there a reason for a non-wing and not a wing?
Second session of backing up, first one ended up being just me figuring out mechanicsā¦.a little better in this session but I could definitely use another hand! I think weāre starting to get the idea š
And a little later we played with the Serp/Threadle Foundation Gameā¦
Beginning Rocking Horses
Rear Crosses: Oh definitely possible that I wasnāt completely across to the new side early enough! Iām sure Iāve got video, just need to sort through all of them and find it. I kept feeling like we were stuck. I think Iāll run this in the long direction in the building that way I can spread stuff out more and see if that helps.
And the noise in the background is Sly fairly close to exploding cause he hasnāt gotten to play yet š³
Turn and Burn from yesterdayā¦.short session, off my left in this session. Played off my right a few days ago and it went pretty much the same. Rewarding with food slowed me down and as you thought that pretty much took care of her bumping the barrel āŗļø
Weāve done 3 or 4 sessions of the Prop Games with rear crossesā¦. Lots and lots of questions from Millie about what we were doing. Didnāt seem to matter how soon I crossed behind sheād turn towards me. Iād still reward on the line like she turned away but that wasnāt helping her understand. Tried both sides to see if it was easier on one side than the other, didnāt seem to matter. Decided to try a Manners Minder to see if that would help and I think it did. One short session of working through āgotta touch the hat before going to the MMā which she understood really quickly āŗļø This clip is our second session with the MM.
Turn and Burn, Take 2. Worked on being more clear about setup and starting, used a different toy, some tug, release the toy and some collar grab at the very end. Chalk lines at 9, 12 and 3. I rushed one in the middle. Sheās pretty comfortable at 12:00, next time weāll work on a little earlier for the cross. And damn, but my brain is so programmed to drop the toy on my first step š® Gotta work on letting her complete going around the barrel before I drop it.
I was wondering what to do with her knocking over the barrel, thanks for the suggestion. Iāll give it a try the next time we play Turn and Burn.
Hadnāt done any prop games for awhile so after a quick āremember the hat gameā warmup we played with countermotion and parallel path. Two separate sessions, I lost track of time in the second one š, way more reps than I shouldāve done. Good girlie for hanging in there. We still havenāt figured out a ready game that weāre both comfortable withā¦.
OMG, this dog is going to be the death of one of us! Absolutely no sense of self preservation. After she recovered from her leaf pile spins injury she wacked her other shoulder on the trailer hitch on the truck. š¤Ŗ. Anywayā¦ā¦.
Weāve done a lot of Goat Trick type games from the time she was about 4 months old. Mostly for the preservation of my back. Think getting a 40# bear cub into a vehicle š³ I setup one of her last jungle gyms today so you could see where she is with this and where we should take it next.
Also played a bit of Wing Wraps with her barrel. Iām thinking this is looking pretty good š
Hopefully I can keep her from injuring herself again for a bit and we can get back to playing some āagility gamesā. Sheās nothing if sheās not exhuberent!
Millieās been grounded for a few days, came up a little lame on her left front after doing airplane spins in the leaf pile. She looked good on Saturday and Sunday so decided she could play today.
Backward sends to her hat
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Wing Wraps with me standing up and some tugging, and some remote reward and who knows what else! Only that I was exhausted after this session š
Blind Cross Fun. Shouldāve practiced my mechanics a few more times before playing this with my big girl. Oh yeah, sheās gonna have a really long stride š³šš³
