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Hi Tracy,
I hope you had a nice Christmas.Thanks for the last feedback! I thought when I played my video back that the bars should have been lower on the lazy game.
Here are some new videos.
Lazy game with lower bars.
Mountain Climber. Lennan was so excited to see the teeter, we had to work on our sit. He was not into waiting and he usually doesn’t break his sit. We got that going ok though and then added a tiny tip.
Here is our tunnel with wing sequencing again, this time with wings farther away.
Also, no video yet as we practiced while waiting for my other dog in her vet appointment, but we had fun practicing the counter motion game of moving while cueing a sit. He gets it but can be a bit slow with the sit sometimes. I will get video soon.
Lennan had an appointment with our rehab vet this week for an overall assessment. Basically she said he’s perfect. Haha. More specifically she said that he is well balanced, all his joints are in good shape, no mobility issues or hesitations, she commented that he has great muscle for his age, she could tell from his muscles that he must go fast when he sprints, and recommended grippy toe exercises to make going faster even easier. I’m not sure if your vets are doing the same but our vets here are operating on curbside pickup and we can’t go in with the dog (the vet calls to discuss during the appointment). Lennan was perfectly happy to go in and apparently was a very good boy for everything and showed off his body awareness skills. I was very pleased.
Hello,
Thanks for all the feedback on our last sessions and the suggestion for using the manners minder. Lennan is not in love with the manners minder, but I think it would work for him in the way you suggested.We got back to trying some backsides again this weekend. Your additional demo video was super helpful! Lennan was going so fast I didn’t feel like I was getting the position accurately and in time. I started to add in asking him to go straight a couple of times just to see if we actually were communicating. Then there was an error on a backside and I could feel the difference at the time and can see it on the video. I was wondering if I should have more space between the starting wing and the jump?
Also, I wanted to share something. I ran the speedstakes course yesterday just for fun with my 8 year old border collie after Jen and River ran. Backside commitment has been something we have consistently struggled with and I have worked on with a variety of instructors through workshops and lessons, all of which has helped but we have never achieved consistency. Yesterday, I turned my upper body to her and used my opposite arm for extra good measure and it turns out she can commit to a backside from like 20 feet away without question. We did not run that course perfectly, but I would have anticipated problems on all those backsides and there just weren’t. She never missed a single one or had any questions or brought bars down (also a problem we’ve experienced with backsides). I was very impressed.
Congratulations on your speedstakes results!
Hi!
This is our first attempt at backside slice training. Side one and side two were done in two different sessions with a break in between.
Thanks so much! Starting to add motion to the tunnel threadles makes sense. Thanks for that suggestion!
Sounds good for the serps too. Height and motion separately makes sense. Thanks for the connection note too. I wasn’t sure why the misses happened.Here is some training we worked on today. This grid was earlier in the day.
Later on we went to practice in a new location (first time ever being there). Lennan was a bit uncertain when we first arrived. We went around and checked everything out. He told me when he was happy and ready to go and wanted his toy. I kept the bars low and only did things he was familiar with so he could build his confidence. We had a little trouble with the backside circle. I think I rushed it and also had the toy in the wrong hand. Lennan thinks that plucking the toy out of the sand is icky so there were no thrown toys. This video is a combination of three separate training sessions within the hour we were there. He took turns with River, although his turn waiting skills definitely need some work.
Hello,
Here is our smiley face tunnel threadles. Lennan has had trouble previously progressing to threadles with this type of set up and he can’t get it right if I move at all too soon, even moving towards the end of the tunnel that I want. Most of the time in this session I was waiting to see that he was turning in around the wrap of the wing before cueing the threadle. Hopefully that was ok.
Thank-you! With the turn away I kept thinking it must be something I’m doing but I couldn’t quite figure it out. That all totally makes sense.
For the ladder grid, I had the bars at 8″. At what height should they be to add more jumps?
For the get outs, yes I was trying figure out mechanics/timing. More practice for me! He seemed to totally have the idea of get out or no get out though so that was super cool.
Good morning,
Thanks so much for the last feedback!
I’m posting three videos here. The first one is from a couple of days ago that I forgot to post and the other two were yesterday.In this video we worked on turn aways on the wing. This proved challenging at first. I’m not sure if my position was not correct? A few times he actually seemed to be quite sure that I was wrong though, lol. He would start to come in to me and then quickly change to the other direction around the wing. Apparently though the toy was just maybe too exciting for his brain because after it didn’t really seem to be working out we took a break, and then came back for another session with no toy and more success.
Here we worked on the ladder grid. I thought he did great on this!
We worked on some get outs again and tried the advanced version, which was hard…for me. Lol.
Hello!
Yes, I think he was being quite literal when he went past the jump. I pulled the end of the tunnel in a bit after the second time he missed the jump.
Here is another session with bars set to 16″.
We also worked on get out.
Tried to work on transitions. Lennan didn’t need me at all as he demonstrated at the beginning of the video. Lol. On the times he turned away, I think I was too far into the centre of the jump.
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.
