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Aelfraed and I worked on some toy races, with added fun of an auntie to hold him (he has done other things with this auntie holding him so that wasn’t new).
Thanks so much! I did feel he opted to leave the toy game to return to the barrel game. The toy was moving slightly but definitely was not the most exciting game. I was being cautious and testing it out a bit as I wasn’t sure if he would want to play at all. He had had a chiropractic adjustment earlier in the day for a stiff neck following a small slip the previous evening. He seems completely back to normal so we will be able to do more exciting play next time.
At the end I think there’s a good chance he was judging me, lol. He had started this session by barking at me to tell me I was being way too slow while I was turning on the camera and had the prop folded under my arm.Hello!
Thank-you for the last message!Aelfraed really enjoys interacting with objects but does tend to be more cautious with his rear feet overall. Will certainly try encouraging more motion earlier next time.
I have previously observed Aelfraed does not enjoy having his body tapped during tugging. I occasionally still forget and he reminds me…not the border collie!
Social learning can definitely be so cool (and also sometimes not helpful, lol). Here’s a fun story where Aelfraed actually helped his big brother this summer. Lennan unfortunately needed many trips to the rehab vet over the last 4 months. Sometimes we have to go to the downstairs section and Lennan thinks the elevator is very scary so I have previously requested to take the stairs. His appointments earlier on were in the upstairs section but while we were there I requested if I could take Aelfraed on the elevator and the staff were happy to help. We had 2 opportunities, a few weeks apart, and Aelfraed was cool with it. Another few weeks later, Lennan had to go to the downstairs section and I decided we would see what happened with the elevator. Lennan balked but watched his little brother trot in and then reluctantly followed. On the way back up after his treatment, he still let Aelfraed go first, but he walked right in without hesitation!
We did some more collar practice. Sometimes taking the collar and sometimes not, with some repetitions of driving to toy.
We also did some more prop sends. It was the first time with the prop outside and I think that was really different for him. He seemed very excited.
P.S. I realized after that you couldn’t see my whole body for the prop sends. I promise I was looking at him when I sent him.
Sounds great, thank-you!
Will try to add in some quicker collar grabs when he is receptive. Up until now this has not been possible as he is exceptionally quick to move away from the hand and getting hold of his collar before he thinks about it has not been possible. Even when he has been seemingly super excited and engaged in play, he has been very quick to drop the toy and deke out of reach. Going slow and allowing him more time to think about it has actually been really helpful for us. I was happy to see his happy responses to the quicker collar grabs yesterday so we will definitely build on this.Lennan taught his little brother that the disc is an extremely important part of life so Aelfraed does now enjoy the disc quite a lot. He does enjoy rollers when his mama can throw them well for him…which is not always, but yes, we can try to do more of that.
His brain tired responses so far have been either increased barking or excessive chasing of my feet and legs.
Today we played some goat tricks. The prop is a collapsible laundry basket that he had never seen before.
We also did some more prop sends. The first picture at the start of this video, I included for you as this is what happens when I turn on the demo videos. He suddenly appears, extremely alert. He would like to go through the phone to go play with you.
Thanks Tracy!
This morning we worked on some drive to toy outside. I haven’t tried a tab leash for him yet, but I am fairly sure he will be offended about it flapping when he runs. Outside is his favourite place to be so I thought we would just try with the collar on its own. Allowing his collar to be taken on cue is something he has previously learned but usually something he still has to think about. He was actually enjoying the game so much he was starting to allow quicker collar grabs.
This video is a little long. Feel free to ignore the end or fast forward, but I left it in because we had an interesting moment. He caught an interesting scent in the air and I decided to wait to see what happened. I wasn’t sure if we had played too long and he was done or it was just something he really needed to check out and he would come back after. The seconds he went out of screen he was still scenting the air, just in a different spot. Turned out he did decide he wanted to come back to play so we had some unplanned resiliency training as well.
This is the small cone he has previously done the wrapping game with. He has also done it with a couple of other random objects but mostly this cone. He doesn’t seem to find my change in position very hard but adding distance is definitely harder for him.
Thanks so much! We will definitely try these games outside next. That floor would indeed be slippery for him for faster running and we won’t be back to that location for several days anyway.
We tried some blind cross practice today.
Also some wing wrap. He knew this game already but with a much smaller prop so this was first time with an actual wing.
Thanks so much!
Aelfraed is usually allowed to run around with the toy a bit if he chooses since he enjoys it and although does not yet bring the toy back, he is not dedicated to keepaway. He was definitely surprised about being stopped by the leash, poor little guy. My brain was a bit silly and thought it was important to keep him from running out of view of the camera.
Anyhow, he was happy to play the game again.
He is entirely happy to receive the food from my hand when moving to my side, including following the food. He has figured out he is happy to take food from hand when we are walking so I’m guessing he finds this to be a similar scenario.
More prop sends. He was not that keen to get the food from my hand although he did follow through. We also tried some toy which he seemed to enjoy. Interestingly, he was more keen to take the food from my hand after some toy reps. However, as he had had enough by then I was not able to see if that was a consistent pattern. Might experiment more with that later.
Hi Tracy,
Here are our first training sessions.
Aelfraed doesn’t like being restrained very much and also doesn’t like toys that aren’t moving very much so I wasn’t sure how the drive to toy game was going to go. However, he has been improving with both those items recently and he did way better than I expected.
Aelfraed has learned about this prop already over the last few weeks and he really likes the game. These were his very first directed sends though! He does not enjoy treats in my hand nearly as much as collecting them himself which is why I was rewarding with the treat toss, and especially after he wasn’t interested in the food in my hand while I was setting the prop down.
I think my timing needs improving on this one.
Hello!
So, my silly dog insists on hurting himself frequently. He jammed his elbow a month ago and immediately after that was better, twisted his wrist. We’re pretty behind on our training but he seems better now.
Here is some training we did on package 2 hot topics and jumping.
Thanks Tracy! He definitely wasn’t going full speed 1-2. I wouldn’t say this is necessarily typical for him but in this case he kept looking at the #6 jump as he came around.
Here is some more work we did on this course. I didn’t have a chance to review to brake arm stuff yet and wanted to get this practice in before the course came down so no brake arm attempts here but it is something I want to work on.
Thanks so much! Haha, more drama, love it! I will have to work on that.
Agility 1, #8, yes, he was quite wide but I didn’t give his cue to turn in time. He needed the cue while he was still on the dogwalk, but this has been difficult for him to process the next cue and still focus on his contact. We have been working on it.Here is some package 3 work.
RYG:
Jumping 1:
Jumping 2:
Today we are at a trial. Our first run had a backside that I thought would pretty easily land on his line that I expected would be out further from me so I gave his backside cue but not super strong. Apparently he says he runs closer now and tucked himself into the front side. I was like, ok then, did not expect that. Lol.
