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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.
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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.
Good morning,
Lennan apparently thought it was perfectly fine to wrap a wing only an arm’s length away from the tunnel. Also worked on turning out of the tunnel.
In this session, we worked on wing wrap to jump.
Thank-you! It was other dogs walking nearby that got him the most excited, including his kangaroo impressions. Letting him assess the environment and choose when to disengage with whatever he’s watching and engage with me works really well for Lennan and we had done this earlier in the day with more distance away from all the action. I think I was a bit nervous to let him watch too long when dogs were coming closer as he has a bit of a history now of showing me he can get overstimulated quickly and lose his mind if I allow him to watch for too long when dogs are close. When I walked him out to that area I thought it looked like a good time with not too much traffic going back and forth, but it got busier. Lennan was being a very good boy though. I will have to try to work on me trusting him and letting him have that chance.
When I worked with him at the practice jump. I was actually planning to just work near the jump and not let him actually take the jump. Totally agree it is not ideal with leash on and I wasn’t brave enough to take the leash off at that time. He really wanted to do the jump though, so I thought I would cue it just once.For the turning, yes, turning right is his stronger, easier side. This is funny to me because when he first learned to wrap around something, he preferred when he was turning to the left. Every since he built more understanding though and we started to do more things with the turning, it has seemed that turning to the right is easier for him.
Good morning,
I am posting two videos.
This one is from an agility trial on Saturday. I had my other dog entered and took Lennan along. He was very interested and excited about all the other dogs around but he wasn’t acting like he disliked all the dogs even when we first got there, so I was very happy about that. I had him out a few times. Mostly we walked around and he checked everything out. The outing that is in this video, we worked on some training as well.
This video is working on head turn again last night. I realized after I got out and ready to start that I’d only been rewarding with food for this training before and I had only brought a toy for this session. I decided to try to see if he could think about it with toy reward and it turned out he could. The first couple of times I had the clicker in the hand I was directing him with and I realized he thought it was something I was giving him, so once I started using an empty hand that was better.
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Our vacation spot was to my aunt and uncle’s cottage that is on an island in Georgian Bay, Ontario. It is an amazing spot and was so nice to get away for a few days.When I commented on Lennan doing better when turning to the right, yes I meant the second turn that he was offering. I did not at all realize I was leaning in when he was turning to the right and not for the left. I went and re-watched the video and can totally see it.
Is this what you meant by rewarding the first head turn?
