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First day training outside again and we did more wings with tunnel. He was very happy to train outside but doesn’t yet understand we’re doing outside instead of inside. He thought we could go into the building for round 2 after we were done in the field, lol.
Aelfraed says the rear cross is fine both ways when we start with a straight approach to the tunnel.
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Aelfraed tried the serpentine game 2 days ago.
Tonight we tried the tunnel exit game. We got the rear cross turning right immediately, but couldn’t get the left turn.
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I didn’t think he was chasing me initially when he was coming off the wing, just the one time when I could feel his teeth approaching my leg. It surprised me as he does not usually do that!
Makes sense that the stopping was frustrating him.
I didn’t consider him being tired from the previous evening as his running time was short and the remainder of the seminar day he had spent in his crate in the car (except for a short walk) as extra dogs weren’t allowed in the building. I can definitely see that he could have been mentally tired from the experience though.
We didn’t go into the agility ring today in case he still needed a break.
It was a nice day outside though so we did play some find my face outside which he seemed to do happily.Jaakko actually talked about evolving, which I thought was cool. Someone asked a question in relation to a OMD concept they had learned years ago that they felt was being contradicted. Jaakko started his answer by saying “I reserve the right to change my mind” and went on to talk about how it wouldn’t make sense to dig your heels in and insist on continuing to do everything the same, especially when the sport has changed.
He wasn’t focused on teaching any particular type of handling. He was focusing on connection mostly as well as commitment and timing.Yes, I agree that Aelfraed being happy to work in a new place was the best part! I wasn’t too sure what he would think or if he would want to look around first, but he saw the agility and wanted to run right away!
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We tried the padding for the teeter and that seemed to work well. His bread was not falling off today but he seemed to remember that it did last time and was looking at the ground but he got over that.
Also tried some end bang.
Wingin it blind crosses. Not too sure why he suddenly decided chasing me was a fun idea. He was fully intending to bite my leg at one point.
Timing was hard for the double crosses.
Threadle wraps went well!
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Yes, that was totally on me when he didn’t know which side to be on heading to the tunnel. I forgot initially which side I wanted to pick him up on, then was too late, but he was a good boy and figured out how to get himself to the tunnel.
Sounds good about padding the sawhorse for the teeter. Will try that.
Aelfraed says he does not share his croissant, lol. It’s his favourite thing so far!
Yesterday some friends and I audited a seminar with Jaakko Suoknuuti. There was an opportunity to try running the course after everything was finished. I was a little sad Lennan couldn’t run but decided to take Aelfraed in. Although most of it wasn’t appropriate for him we did some little sections. Also he was very excited to see agility and didn’t seem to mind that he was in a new place, so that was good! Here are some bits that we tried. I was pretty happy he could stay on the big line to find the jump from the tunnel!
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We worked on some more wing games, including threadle wraps.
We also tried running up the teeter with a small tip. He was very enthusiastic for his croissant and the movement was bouncing it off the holder so will have to have something that holds it better next time.
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We inadvertently took a break as I had a busy week.
This week we tried 2 sessions of the wing wrapping games.
First session, single wing and tunnel then backside wraps with 2 wings.
Second session, backside wraps again and tandem turns.
Also, I forgot to post this one last week but we had tried adding in some turns while Shaelyn stayed ahead with the bread toy the whole time. He said it was very hard at first but then seemed to figure it out. We have not been able yo try it again yet.
Sounds good, thank-you!
Aelfraed is right around 9kg so sounds like he could do 2o2o? I actually think he would love digging at the end too though. He has actually offered scratching on the training plank at times.
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For the teeter I was planning to do 4 on. He seems to like 2o2o though, so now I’m not quite sure.
Aelfraed says he is a big fan of chasing the auntie! He did start to figure out that pouncing on the treat hugger was also fun. Even though he over-ran it and went back for it most of the time, he was happy to snatch his bread and butter out of it himself when he got to it, even jamming his face into it a few times.
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Aelfraed enjoyed banging the end of the teeter today and is also getting better at backing onto it.
We tried the sequences again with the jump bar hanging on the 8″ cups. There was bread in his treat ball for the straight ahead lines and he seemed eager to chase the ball but definitely still wants to look at me between the jumps. Should I reward the first jump out of the tunnel? Or is he maybe looking to see if I’m going to toss? He seems better on the other side with the one jump at the end. I didn’t try a treat dish today but I think that might be good to get him to run to it.
We tried the wingin’ it game. It hurt my brain, lol, but Aelfraed seemed fine.
We tried the looking ahead to the jump game again and he definitely thought about it since a couple days ago. He was great at going to the jump!
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This little boy is pretty challenging to reward.
His current opinion of toys seems to be that they are an activity on their own and not a training reward. He asks me to play tug with him in the living room at home. He asks me to play toys out in the yard. He will still play tug and chase toys outside in different places for short periods (he doesn’t play obsessively like the border collies) and does quite enjoy a ball outside. He has played a few times in the training arena if I ask him to play when we first enter, but will only accept the toy 2 or 3 times in that environment because then he wants to get going with other things and does not think the toy should be part of those things. If I ask him to do something and then offer the toy as the reward, he is immediately mad and will not take the toy even if he had been excited about it directly before starting the exercise. The last 2 times I tried with a toy, he was so mad about me offering the toy that he barked at me and bit me (definitely on purpose, he was not trying to bite the toy).
I did also wonder since he barks so much when he runs if that affects his desire to want to grab a toy.For his food rewards, he has 2 types that are consistently Aelfraed approved and 1 is generally considered higher value, except for the odd time when he randomly switches, so that is typically the food that is used in his training sessions. There are a few other things that he will eat but is not actually excited about those things unless they are presented very sporadically (weeks in between).
He generally does enjoy the treat ball and can open it and doesn’t seem bothered by the velcro. He does wait for me to open the majority of the time though. The only times he opens it himself are if it happens to land with the open side up and he doesn’t have to manipulate it first, or if I ask him to do something really easy then he will manipulate the ball and open it himself. It seems like he doesn’t feel he should work for his reward when he already worked in the exercise.
I haven’t usually used bread in the treat ball, except for the time I ran him during the fun match. He did seem extra excited about it when the bread was involved that day. I am a little concerned if I use bread for everything that it will lose some of its value for him though. I guess I could load the ball with bread on the times I really want him to drive to it and use his other food at times it doesn’t matter as much?
He is not in love with the manners minder. I think mostly because it can’t dispense the type of food that he wants the most. He does also think the mechanical sound is weird and previously has waited for it to stop making noise before approaching to collect the treat. I think he could get over that if he was more excited about the food that was being produced as he wasn’t too scared, just suspicious.
He does enjoy a treat dish that he can run to. He doesn’t really understand not to run to it when it is present though, so maybe can work on that a bit more.
Lol, Aelfraed is lucky that his mom also enjoys baked goods and that trips to the bakery now include the thought process of “what would Aelfraed enjoy a little bit of?”.
Today we tried the straight line sequences. Two sessions, with a break in between.
We also worked on the teeter again.
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We worked on the mountain climber again with Aelfraed collecting his own reward. His rewards today consisted of croissant and buttered dinner roll.
We also tried the looking ahead to the jump game on the other side.
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Today we tried the looking ahead game.
We also worked on mountain climber and had more pie crust for this game.
We tried the motion override sit game. I expected it to not go well as sit is still not his favourite thing. He does prefer to stop standing and actually did very well when I had him do that. He was pretty confused as to why we weren’t doing equipment and ran away to do obstacles a couple of times.
