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Thank-you so much for all the great feedback and suggestions.
Re: teeter/dogwalk. Lennan has not typically been confused about the dogwalk so that surprised me a bit. I did wonder at the time if he had thought it might be the teeter or if he had tripped or slipped. Teeter, he was having trouble with fly offs recently when teeter was directly before a tunnel. We were working on it and he had been much improved. I am just wondering if maybe he gets used to where the equipment is placed in his regular practice area (he trains in this field 1-3 times per week). With this course the teeter and dogwalk were completely flipped from where they had been the previous week. The previous weekend we had been at a trial in a different location and he had no questions whatsoever between teeter and dogwalk. The teeter was also directly before a tunnel there.
Here are our newest training ventures.
I’m going to guess you didn’t see the weave video included in the previous post so I am posting it again here. This was our first session on the weave exercise.
2nd weave session today. I didn’t realize I was off camera at the start for a few of the reps. Oops.
Tunnel/jump discrimination.
Behind the back starts. He already knew how to circle the one way and we worked on the direction he didn’t know also.
Haha! Ice cream is still a favourite and had another major role to play over the winter in convincing him that yes, actually, all the weave poles are required. It worked great! Ice cream cones have travelled to various fun matches and trials to assist him in environmental overload. Last, but not least, assisted with convincing him that start lines are cool.
Lennan does tend to be very forward, which I also love, but we do have a hard time with turns. I have tended to not run full speed with him as previously a lot of motion from me would kind of make his brains explode. It totally makes sense that the lack of contrast is creating a challenge though.
I have not specifically worked on a brake hand with him. I will give that a try.
Here is our second session with the sequences.
This is our first attempt (from earlier this week) at the package 1 standard course 1.
Today we worked on weave poles.
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Here are our teeter sessions this week with full teeter! Also, cooking with Lennan compilation.
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Lennan had done some elevator before and we were just about to progress to crazy elevator when we had to take a break for injury healing. I had wanted to make sure he was still happy with elevator before trying crazy elevator.Here is our second session of crazy elevator, this time with wing wraps. We had one little oopsie where he slipped and said Mom! I’m sad! But then he got happy again.
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Lennan is very happy to be back on the teeter!
Here is a bang game session we did yesterday.
Elevator game today. Normal elevator to start, then Lennan took a break and we did crazy elevator in a new session.
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Lennan is finally back in action. He was quite excited to train on the plank tonight. I tried him on the plank a few days ago and although he had resumed crazy wild man running without hesitation, he was being careful on the plank so he wasn’t ready yet. Niamh got to be my helper for my mechanics practice again this week with me adding motion.
Lennan received a get well ice cream cone both times Niamh got to do ice cream training, however he was so so sad. The first time I tried to give him the ice cream before going out to train and that was not ok. He pinned his ears back, took the cone, dropped it on the floor, and stared at me with the most extreme of sad faces (he’s pretty good at the sad face in general).Here is plank training from tonight.
Mechanics practice with Niamh from earlier in the week.
Lennan is feeling much better. I have to watch him closely now because he would like to convince me that he’s perfectly capable of doing all the things, but he’s not sound yet. Laser treatments at home and chiro adjustments are helping with his healing. His poor shoulder was indeed very sore as well as his foot. He’s a sad and grumpy patient but pretty good for it all.
Seeing as Lennan can’t do it yet, I thought I would practice my mechanics for crazy elevator so that I’ll be ready when he is. Here is older sister Niamh helping with mama mechanics. Poor Lennan was so upset that the sister, the mama, and the ice cream all went out without him.
Thanks so much!
Your discussion of mechanics including ice cream cone made me laugh so much! Totally a necessity but I’m not sure I ever would have thought ice cream cones would be part of my mechanics of training before.
I was super excited to progress to crazy elevator game and this was planned for Saturday. Unfortunately we’ve had a delay in our training abilities as Lennan had an altercation Saturday morning (through the fence) with the evil dog who lives next door to us and the dog got a strong bite hold on Lennan’s front paw and caused some punctures. So, I currently have a sad and limpy border collie boy who is begging to do all the things and says he can totally do it despite not being able to actually stand or walk on his paw normally at the moment. Hopefully he will heal quickly and we will be able to get back to our training.
Here is a video of target fading with the plank from a couple of days ago before the unfortunate incident. I don’t think the targets can actually be seen on the video but there were 3 different size targets and then no target by the end.
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Here is some training we have been working on.Uphill cooking with Lennan. So much tip and he loves it!
Uphill on a different day, even more tip. He said you can’t pull my ice cream away! Lol! The second hit he got a big chunk of cheese on the bit of cone that was left. Oops on the flying exit. He wasn’t supposed to do that (evidence of my horrified face at the end)!
Downhill to ground. The first two videos were on the same day but separate sessions and the third video is a different day. He seemed to have trouble with me praising him when he initially got into position so I switched to just using his reward marker initially and then adding praise after and he seemed to do much better. He also thinks it is great.
Elevator Game. 2 sessions on 2 different days.
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Chico (the cat) probably was totally judging. A few things for Lennan on that session. He had never done target training in that space before, he had just woken up from a nap, and he’s a bit nervous of the cats (for good reason) so even though Chico got put in a crate to prevent further interference Lennan may have been feeling a bit worried about cat intrusion at the start of the session.This evening I was like let’s go do target fading outside. Lennan was like it is cool and windy, I’ve been sleeping most of the day since my walk/jog this morning, I spent the last 10 minutes inside getting myself super hyped up with a toy, and I was really excited to see Mom set up the training equipment. So, that was hilarious and we didn’t fade the target during that session. Then Lennan took a break and we did a second session where we did fade the target and he was awesome. Picture in the middle of the video indicates the separation of session 1 and session 2.
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Here is our first session of downhill to ground. He seemed happy about it!
Elevator:
Cooking with Lennan:
Target fading! Normal target, smaller target, tiny target, no target.
Thanks so much!
I can for sure make a compilation of “cooking with Lennan”!
I’m not the least bit concerned about him getting fat. I’ve been monitoring and we’re good so far. Also, he certainly doesn’t overconsume food in general, lol.Thanks for the mechanics notes! I didn’t even realize I was consistently reaching into my pocket as he was moving. He’s definitely allowed to move if I say catch and either one of us misses. I will just call him to me afterwards when that happens to prevent the backing up in that scenario.
Barking dogs are a big distraction, but more if they are dogs he doesn’t know well. I think the neighbours may help.
One question about the downhill to ground. I should reduce the tip at first as shown in the instruction video, then increase the tip again and then move to the uphill/downhill?
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Here is our work this week on downhill with more tip.
Uphill we’ve been working on adding a bit more tip as he has seemed happy. He is loving his ice cream cones and seems happy with the two hits as well!
(We forgot the intro on this one. He had strawberry ice cream, French vanilla ice cream, and topped with a blueberry!)Meeting up in the future to maybe train dogs but definitely eat ice cream sounds perfect. Haha!
Bang Game:
Forgot to add the cone this time but there were no dogs barking so it went well.
Added cone to this one.
Plank training:
First time on elevator:
First time on rebound:
I’m so glad you mentioned his tail! I used to say to Jen when we would take him on walks that I knew exactly how he was feeling about things by his tail. Here is our next session with same height.
Uphill:
Bang Game:
Moving ahead may have been too difficult. We were also dealing with a neighbour dog barking distraction.
Wobble board targeting:
Haha, I can’t imagine why you might have been thinking about ice cream! Lennan says he approves of your choice.
I’m not sure why the last video didn’t work, settings all look correct. Trying the link again here. This is about the same tip he has done before with this game, but first time outside with it.
