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Middle + Tug
We have been working a lot on her Middle cue since we were waiting to be cleared by the vet to work on other things. This is her first time getting a tug reward for it and I’d say she loves it even more! Also our first time during training sessions doing this outside as well.Jump + Retrieve
This is our first time doing this outside and with a tug. She loved bringing it back but I can tell we need to work more on the over back to me. I would assume staying closer to the jump would help with this but she tends to want to chew her tug still if I am not in motion. Would love to hear your ideas about this.Jump + Distance (Indoor)
Here is Thistle’s Jump + Distance indoor edition. She is pretty solid on what over means inside WITH treats. Tug is a whole other game.. lol.I have started cutting her meals back to help with training recently and I think it has helped some.
She varies on the week. Right now, I’d say she’s on the thinner side, but two weeks ago, she was a chunk.
With meals, the three older dogs I have wait patiently in the kitchen while I make their food. Thistle is usually off rampaging on the couches or entertaining herself in some way. I would say food has been a challenge to keep her interested in. I have even gone as far as doing a late breakfast training session so she missed normal breakfast time and tried getting her hungry for that and she was still “meh” about it.
Cheese excites her. Steak is good but she really only wants it when there’s other dogs around. If there’s no competition for it, she doesn’t care much.This was our second round and I think she is getting the idea of it. I am going for more enthusiasm but not getting as fast of movements as I’d like. Do you have ideas on how to make this more fun for her?
We don’t have any upright jumps and you can see I am having to be more exciting for her to be more excited about doing it. I am excited to hear your feedback on how to improve this for the week ahead.
I am working on this from another class and we have been shaping behaviors with a Tupperware lid. She understands the context and I am hoping you are okay if I use this to continue training it.
I also wanted to apologize for the gap in posting. I have been going back to the previous lessons from Unit One to really build up treat training and getting her excited to train with me. I think it has been working because she is not wanting to leave the training room anymore and she will go lay in there and wait for me to play. I am VERY excited about the improvement for at home training. In some of the videos, you might see me remember to be more exciting and bring the energy to her. I am still working on it! But I am proud of the improvement.
I think there is definitely room for improvement but we are planning to continue to build this up so she’s bringing the tug quickly back to me.
This one was hard for me but I think I found something I can continue to build with her.
Spin/Twist R1 – treat/lure
Next round + Treats
R3 – Chuck it?She has tried this before but we haven’t worked a lot on it.
Is the chuck it anything? I was trying to figure out how to reward her indoors. With my other border collie, I taught her twist/spin with her chuck it but the reward was the ball getting thrown (and we were outside).
Curious what you see!We had fun with this! This was our first training session with her new tug. We played a little bit with it when we got it yesterday but she is still learning how best to grab it.
Mat + (Treat Round 1)
Mat + Tug R2
Mat + Tug R3We started with a treat reward, but I think she’s having more fun with her tug reward. Let me know your thoughts!
