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Hi!
Here is a video of Lennan’s set point with 16″ on second jump. He’s done the 16″ a few times.
We also tried some blind crosses on the diamond again, trying to work on your suggestions from last time. We seemed to have success on one side only.
Hello,
Thanks so much!
Haha, the fox terrier is Annie. She’s 14 and fairly oblivious a lot of the time. She had been chilling off to the side but was very surprised by the speeding Lennan when she wandered in.
What height should I go to on the jump? I moved it up to 10″ in the session I am posting here. We had been working at 8″ before.
I’m not sure if you saw the third video I had posted where we worked on finding the jump out of the tunnel. We worked on that one again with a different set up.
This afternoon we tried out the diamond.
Also, Zig Zag with closer distance. He seemed to think that was fine.
Good morning!
Here are some training sessions we did yesterday.
I’m not sure why I’m having trouble with the position on the left side backside circle. I was trying to pay attention to not blocking the wing, but when I watched the video, it looks like I’m still blocking it.
Thanks so much!
I did notice I was in the way on the first side on the backside circle wrap, but didn’t notice the arm on the other side!I will work on tossing the reward at the end for the zig zag next time.
On the proofing game, where you saw him cough up a cookie, he actually continued to choke up all cookies he had been given up to that point in the session. His sensitive taste buds told him that coughed up cookies are not good to eat a second time so I had to scoop it all up before we continued. The video was paused for all of that so you didn’t get to see it. I’m guessing all of that started because he possibly didn’t fully swallow the last cookie he was given.
I think he isn’t comfortable with jumping in close towards me. Sounds good to work on that.Today we worked on some rear crosses and backside wraps again. Switched it around this time so he could do right turns into the tunnel.
Thanks so much!
I will try with adding more motion and additional verbals on the serps.
I agree it is fun to see him reading lines!
Also, yes, he does love the go go go element. It makes me happy!We worked on these three games today (with breaks in between). Only did one side of the tunnel/serp game so far but will make sure we try the other side as well.
Good morning,
Here is our most recent serp training session.
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Some tunnel go and turns. When turning, I was going to have him turn to the toy. He thought he should include the jump. I thought that was ok. Also, the last go at the end, I thought he would bypass the other blue tunnel as it wasn’t in line but he thought the opposite end of the tunnel was the correct answer. Tried it a second time just to see what he would do and he did the same.
Good morning!
We tried serps again yesterday with the jump angled to start. I didn’t have the TnT with me so used a toy (on a mat because Lennan says plucking toys out of the sand is ew). Almost forgot to balance with wing wraps but remembered one on the second side.
Thanks so much!
I did not try the mirror image of the tunnel for turns. That would have been good to compare. He could have been looking at the other tunnel. Tunnels are exciting!
I will try what you have suggested for working on turns and see how it goes.Yesterday we worked on wing to serp. Lennan said my motion was a bit too exciting to start. He also wanted to know why we weren’t doing tunnels so he got rewarded by being sent to the tunnel a few times. He was becoming less excited about the Treat N Train as we went along so started sometimes rewarding cookie eating with a toy.
Sounds good, thank-you. I also thought he looked more powerful from the sit for right now, however you’re correct that he’s not as used to starting from a standing position. “This is weird mom” is totally an accurate Lennan comment, lol! Will keep working on both.
Here are two videos from today. Left and right turns on the minny pinny (I thought he was very clever). He still likes right turns a bit more.
We also attempted some wing/tunnel sequencing. We seem to have some turning out of tunnel issues, particularly turning left. He loves going straight.Hello,
We worked on the set point again and tried from stand as well as from sit a bit further back. Do you think one is better?
Thanks so much!
For the set point I think the stand might work better. I can try moving him back with the sit, but it is possible he might lean forward even more if he has more space. The jump height was set at 8 inches here. He has done a little bit of playing on jumps at different heights up to 16 inches, just not a lot yet. He accidentally jumped a 20 inch jump once (he decided to do a jump we weren’t working on). We haven’t trained with that height at all but apparently he has no hesitation about jumping.In the smiley face game, I didn’t think about the a-frame attracting his attention. He hasn’t worked on it at all. I suppose he could still have been looking at it though since he could see it coming out of the tunnel. Will try with the tunnel not looking at the a-frame next time and see if he is still just wider in that direction. Will also try earlier rotation and see what happens.
Thanks!Hello!
Thank-you for this. We will certainly try the extra challenges. I think more motion will be most challenging for Lennan on the tunnel/wing but we will see!
We worked on wing wrap to jump again early this morning before I got your message so didn’t add too much extra motion yet and will add that next time. This morning we worked on having the toy on the ground ahead of time.
We also worked on these two games last night.
