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Hi Tracy!
Here are our games from yesterday.
Parallel Path (Baby) Rear crosses with the prop (baby) and Turn & Burn.I tried to start back with the baby level of the toy races, but she is not interested in playing with toys for the games – only food! I think she is SUPER hungry because she is on a steroid. She is all done with that on Monday, so maybe we’ll get toy play back. I’ll try to play right after a meal & see if that helps. I ended up using food for the Turn & Burn session & we did the baby level of parallel path to refresh her memory & I tried some rear crosses on her easy side (left). I’m going to try the alternate rear cross game & use your suggestions too.
Hi Tracy!
We are back! Bazinga is doing great! We are ready to catch back up. I think we need to finish up Week 3. How do you think we should proceed from here?We jumped back in with the new Alternate Rear Cross Game. I was surprised that we are having trouble with one direction. We only got 1 successful non-spin when she starts on my right & turns to her right. I’m so directionally challenged – does that mean she is left-pawed?
I am thinking that I just may be moving too slow on the cross. Here is our video.
Also – I LOVE your treat ledges in your hallway in your demo video ☺Oh! Flyball! That would be fun. This is the first dog I have had that I think has the right personality for that. I’ve never played it but there is a league about 3 hours from me in Jacksonville Fl.
We tried Turn & Burn!!!!
We tried the Prop Game – Parallel Path!
I mis-clicked when she jumped over the prop and she missed again a second time ( AND I mis-clicked again) so I asked for a couple of easy paw targets on the prop & we ended & played. I swear we are playing before & after – I just clipped them out of the videos 🙂
For the taller item will an oval-shaped tall laundry basket work or does it have to be perfectly round? I can buy a soft barrel from the hardware store if it needs to be completely round.
LOL. She cracks me up with the back-up too. I will try standing up and try the between-the-feet approach next.
Class was SO FUN to watch last night! The pups were brilliant!
Also, I was listening to a podcast and they had an episode on the Resilience Rainbow & you got several shout outs 🙂Episode 55: The Resilience Rainbow with Bobbie Bhambree-Wirkmaa
I see what you are saying about clicking for 2 feet on the plank when she is happy to put 4 feet up. Thanks for the feedback on that!
We did a session of the Wing Wrap game and introduced the advanced objects and I also added me standing to catch up. I may have lumped a little, but she didn’t get confused so I kept going. I’ll do another session to allow her to absorb the changes before I try the Week 3 games.
Here is our current back-up. I haven’t been working on it so maybe we are a little rusty!
Hi Tracy! Thank you!
>> I think what happened there was that she didn’t realize she was doing toy races LOL!YES! You are so right! DUH! I will try again without cookies & see if I can beat this speedie girlie to the toy!
Any Toy game – I’ll try offering boring food in the next session. Is that to get her more focused on toys & less on food?
I will keep the sessions short. I had not picked up on her getting hot during the sessions so thank you for mentioning it.Here is our Plankrobotics try. She has been on the yellow & green platforms before, but not shaped like a plank. I also added a new plank made of wood in the yard to give her a new experience.
Hi Tracy – thank you for the great feedback! I did do another walk the next day at the trial and she enjoyed it!
I do feel very behind on the games! I did 2 different sessions today. Toy Races & Any Toy Any Time.
I think I have what I need to do the plankrobatics so that will be next. The equipment can use improvement, so I’ll work on that. I don’t have a wobble board…I have a soft instability platform, can I use that for the Goat Tricks Moving & Noise baby level?
Also, I need to watch your video again, but Bazinga has a back -up behavior, can I use the behavior she already has for this, or should I start from the beginning?
Here are the videos 🙂
Toy Races (Session 1)
I lost her attention to the treats. I also think I let her get too much of the toy on the turns where I won. I may have become her servant. I went back to an easy rep on the last rep to get her amped back up & end on a positive note.
Any Toy Any Time (Session 2)
She loved this! No distractions <grin>
Hi Tracy!
We are at an agility trial so i have been trying to incorporate some sessions with Bazinga. We tried the Resilience Conditioning Walk. I never realized how much I blab & talk to my dogs on a walk. It was very interesting for me to just shut my mouth & be quiet.
We tried to play Any Toy, Any time at the trial. I was surprised the surroundings seemed distracting for her. A good lesson for me. It was a good barometer since she always seems to take everything in stride and I assume she is not affected. I think I needed to let her acclimate to the spot we chose to play before trying the game. She had not been up in the bleachers yet.
Thanks! We’ll be here one more day & then we can get back to the new games.
Hi Tracy! We had fun today!
I have a question about the Goat Games. Should the object be something that they can get on completely?I so totally had to leave the beginning of our Prop Game session for you to see. Bazinga bounced right over to the towel and then was SO EXCITED to see the “object” our dustbin – haha!
We did a front send & tried some side sends. I also tried using a toy as the reinforcer. She really got amped (you’ll see) but I’ll keep working with it. I think she’ll get it.Wing Wrap Foundations
I added the upright after we started with the beginner level. If I “sneak” the treat in the bowl and she gets confused, she offers me her Back Up behavior. I taught her to back up when she was really little and it was the first thing I ever trained that was shaped and I waited for her to offer the behavior & went from there. Now, if I confuse her, she is like “Do you want this, then!?” & backs up.
Driving Forward
I already submitted 2 of this game, not sure if it is ok to submit another. You can skip this if not. I worked on running with her and she didn’t seem to mind at all & she is so much more comfortable with me holding her collar! Life skill – yay!Thanks for watching!
Happy Thanksgiving!!!Hi Tracy! Here is what we have been working on!
Prop Game 1: Building Sends And Commitment session 1
Not sure how I feel about this session. The clicker helps clarify the “yes” moment when she touches the prop, but it seems to amp her up & she was pretty excited about the clicker. I tried to do some without the clicker too to see if that was better for her. It seems to me that she was not 100% clear on touching the prop with my movement.
Decel game – session 1
This one was fun. I used a towel to throw the cookie onto so it wouldn’t get lost in the grass but there were still long delays between cookie procurement & her being ready to run to me.
We did the first session of the Wing Wrap game. I faked her out with the stealthy treat drop! I was surprised she didn’t dive right into the bowl looking for the treat. The whiny-grumble is not from Bazinga. It is coming from Frankie who is outside the door.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great feedback you have such a sharp eye! I never would have noticed the difference in what I was doing when she looked at me & when she didn’t. I’m really trying to improve my observation skills.
Here is another session of the Driving Forward game. I tried the first few collar grabs without a treat to see how it went and it was more struggle-y than I wanted so I went back to treat + collar grab to get her to drop the toy & reset for the next toss. I don’t think the treats are taking away from her toy drive, but I’m aware of it as a possibility now after watching & listening to the live class. My other Boston (Frankie) does switch from “toy-toy-toy” to “Ok now I only want treats” during training. I never thought about it before. I just thought it was her personality. I’ll work on teaching her a drop behavior too.
We have more to do but I need to get a mat or rug to work inside without slipping so we are working outside mostly & it is a rainy weekend.
Bazinga was happy to play in the drizzle though! 🙂
Hi Tracy!
Here is Bazinga doing Game 1 – Driving Forward.
I have been doing the collar grab game and was offering a treat to get her to release the toy & also to reward her for me moving toward her collar. I think it is starting to work. I started the game sitting on the floor & moved to standing & then tried running with her. I noticed she looked at me when I ran with her. I’m not sure if that means she is uncomfortable with it, or if she was just noticing the change. I backed off and did some more throws with me not moving & ended on that. I edited out our in-between play & most of me trying to wait her out to drop the toy.
I have a few questions on how we should be working as the class goes on. Do we keep doing all the games (week 1 & week 2 etc) or just work each week’s games?I know it will be variable based on how each dog progresses, but how many sessions of each game do you recommend we do during the week?
Sorry that all most posts seem so long!
I love the games so far! I am so happy we signed up for this class with you!We so enjoyed watching the live class last night!
Here is Bazinga’s Pre-Game #2. It was our 2nd attempt, my video failed on the first try.
You can see her default “I’m confused” behavior in this one. She was really interested in my hand that was giving out the treats and got confused but I think I gave her time & help to figure it out.We will be working on the games next! I did a session of the collar game to try & get her more positive about me holding her collar in preparation for game 1.
Here is our Pre-Game 1. Please enjoy the bedhead! I really wanted you to see the first session with this object, so I’m being brave! Haha. I started with a different object, but I think I moved too quickly and she was showing frustration on session 2 of that object, so I changed out to a different object, to start fresh. This is our first session with the dustbin. I clipped out when we were interrupted a few times to keep the clip brief. We started with play, worked on building value for paw touches on the bin & then ended with play.
