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“ know you probably have your hands on him all the time, but you can get a 2nd opinion on if he has any pain/tightness/soreness/ROM restrictions in the hind end. Has he had his preliminary hip/spine radiographs? And a patella exam when he is laying on his side and not standing up?”
Yes, although one can always work on him more. He has had prelim rads done at a health clinic on hips, elbows, stifles and spine (always get those to compare to down the road). He also had a full baseline eval with joint angle and muscle measurements at the local rehab vet (again to have for comparison later if needed). And she also checked patellas.I set up the lazy game with low and no bars as suggested. And I did a setpoint first at 12 then at 14.
We did a session of the lazy game with the tunnel. Still lots of bar knocking at one point I moved most of the bars to 8 inches. I really do not like the way he jumps. I have worked on the Linda M. Jump foundations but he just gets so ramped up and focused on me. He is not as able to bark and still work as all my other guys.
We added distance to the jumps on the lazy game. I made the mistake of not having easy enough to find treats. So next time I will make that change. To me he did better once I added the verbals.
I also wanted to show you where we are on the Dogwalk and teeter, as I am ahead of the class on these. I would love your comments on continuing to progress them. As you can see (and to answer your question) I am doing 2o2o for these. But I will be doing a running a-frame.
We got outside. Weather has not been great, but I put my equipment out anyway. We worked on The Lazy game. I was pretty happy with how he progressed here.
I also did some teeter work. We have done lots of the bang game znd the boy is fearless about the teeter, does it by himself outside at time (I only left it where he could get to it after I was sure he wasn’t spooked by anything. The backing up onto it we have not done (I have done lots of backing up for fitness, but in this context he had no idea where those back legs were, oh my).
Yipee got to put my equipment out into the yard today. Hopefully some outdoor stuff coming before posting ends.
I did some of the threadle tunnel in the basement. I definitely think we might revisit some of the foundation with just the tunnel. I’m wondering if this might have gone better with a little more space between wings and tunnel.
Was able to get some floor time at training center today.
We worked on the Pillbug, Push and pull (I really need to just keep doing some work on just 2 wings), and 3 jumps with your suggestions from out last video.
We did some work with the ladder grid. Its starting to get more difficult to do the stuff in my limited space. I sure hope some of the snow melts so I can do some outside.
Finally felt up to doing some training to video. We worked on the
Turns out of tunnel, on this one I definitly found I need to work some more on forward “run”.
And the we did the setpoint with moving target. I started at 10 inches and then moved to 12.
I’m all signed up for Max Pup 2. Not sure when I’ll get to start with my second knee surgery Dec 19.
Recovery is going slow but sure. I was finally able to stand long enough to work on some stays.
My timing of markers and movement is a little off (must be the drugs, https://youtu.be/bgVqWYN4oA4?si=rFuUqzIwyvWzb0xYI also wanted to show that we do have retrieval of toys. But he is not great working for them and I don’t mind just using them for play.
I soooooooo missed making the trip to Florida for the US Open.
Thanks for the Adolescence info!!
So I went to my last trial before surgery. Took PoweR along one day and did some remote cookie work in the parking lot.
So I’m in a funk. With double partial knee replacements coming up the pain is making me very short tempered and Cranky. PoweR turned one today and is definitely suffering from teenage brain. I think I need a brain camp video on this particular stage to help me NOT want to kill him. Heavy sigh.
We worked on a little remote reinforcement and pivot.So we worked on more proprioception and threadle wraps. I’m a little biased but these were brilliant!
We worked on some more rocking horse with the side sends. As per his usual, going counterclockwise produced more barking and slower performance. But we did get a rhythm going at one point.
Just an FYI I am going to be getting a partial Knee replacements on my left leg Nov 14 and right leg Dec 19. Yup had to cancel US Open yet again this year. I have no idea what I’ll be able to attempt training wise with PoweR but hoping you will help me modify as best we can.
Also why I didn’t jump on the live one on one 😢.
We did a little training. I’m still struggling with motivation to work with PoweR I think I need more live classes.
Got back from my trip to the Quilt retreat this afternoon. Threw together a short training session. I get to go to an ISC trial Sat with StrykR.
Here is Parallel Path. He is definitely better on my left side.
On the Tunnel I left the whole session so you could see all his antics. He is quite the mountain goat. He finds it harder to find the entrance of the tunnel on my right side from an angle and went around the back of the tunnel a number of times.
