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This was easy for us. I cannot decide if my Fc at the end is late. He has such great obstacle commitment, better than either of my other dogs, who have mommy commitment.
Serpentines, a little struggle. It is hard for me to get to where I need to be in these short fast sequences. Max rules, he is so smart and catches on quick. His work ethic is amazing.
More circle ladder work. My brain was not working so I didn’t do everything correctly and Max was starting to get bored when he doesn’t want to do something. He starts jumping on top of the tunnel or he just bark at me so we kept it shorter and didn’t keep trying to get it, right. I think he’s got the skills. It’s all me.
Circle wrap ladder, one, part one. I am not sure I did this correctly. I was using his left and right wrap cues and not his backside Threadle wrap cue. I might try this again and set it up as jumps because then the directional just make more sense to me. Does it matter? Should I go back and redo it with my backside Threadle wrap cue? It is definitely a skill we have been trying to work on. I don’t know why when I run this. It just seems like regular wraps and not backside wraps.
Counter motion, commitment, part two
I have a harder time working on just the wings. I feel like I do better with a jump for some reason. All the turns on the wings just get muddled in my head. Max would like you to know any errors here it was totally his mother‘s fault
Straight lines 4 ways part two. Max and I had trouble on the push, especially when I’m behind him on the last one I got up more ahead of them. But running big courses I am sometimes behind so I think it’s just him learning his verbal, or us getting more distance as team
Counter motion commitment
I am so bent over! It doesn’t look right…
But I thought we did okay, tight, fast work is not my strength.
Max and I struggled a little bit on the rear crosses. It’s also very wet and like 92% humidity which doesn’t help and he gets wet and it slows him down. I have noticed Max pattern so once he gets in his mind that this means this, he’ll keep doing it until I really can break that somehow. We’re gonna take a break and then hopefully tomorrow or Monday do the rest.
I also had a problem in class. Of a backside throttle where the dog is between you and a jump and he needs to go to the backside and wrap it. I couldn’t really figure out what I was doing with my arms because he was a good 5 feet in front of me. We just had the worst time getting it. I don’t know if you have any tips.
Contact foundations motion override: I did this from memory. I think I did it right. Max did very well. I don’t think he would do as well with a toy, but I might try that next just for kicks.
Max and I did the last exercise this am. I thought I would use a small tennis ball, as it seemed easier to throw. Well Max is a bit of a I-don’t-want-to-give-the-toy-back dog. I have not made a big deal and it has gotten much better. At the end of the video I left Max in the ring with his ball and went up to the house put the other dogs in the house got two more toys and some treats. Max would not trade his ball for anything but the ball is boring without a person attached to it. I sat on the grass till he finally came over to me. I gave him a high value treat took the ball and immediately threw it. I did that over and over again till he was exhausted.
Of course, in the house, he gives up his toys perfectly or when he’s on a leash he gives them up perfectly. I might try punching a hole through the ball and put a string on it, but then the squeaker won’t work and let’s face it. The squeaker is a lot of fun. I will do this again using a different toy, but any advice on his I don’t wanna give it up? At home he’s a bit of a resource guarder I usually have one of everything for the dogs, but if he gets bad about resource guarding, then we just put him in his enclosure until he cools off.
