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Awesome! I was wondering about finding a way to secure the bowls. 🙂 She goes after food like she has NEVER been fed – and she could NOT believe there was only ONE cookie at a time. Outrageous.
And, if I can John to hold her for me, I’ll take the drive to handler game outside.
throwing cookies in the grass doesn’t work so well for us right now. I appreciate the advice on timing, stay tuned.Here are a couple of other things we worked on.
In this send to object neither one of us was enjoying the “ready dance”. Even I can’t tell what I’m doing here 🙂 At the very end, though, I liked that it felt like we were working together. https://youtu.be/euxJSj_vtoQ
And…the magic of a REALLY LONG tug. 🙂 No worries of “party of one” made this driving ahead game pretty fun. Here’s one brief session. https://youtu.be/HIJaGddt3WY
Thanks, Tracy! Here are 2 quick vids for more of this week’s games ..
Jett Wrap Foundations: https://youtu.be/2Es6TkiDUYI
Jett Drive to Handler: https://youtu.be/PzqybMThmtk
Hi there – Most of our training opportunities this week did not involve setting up for video, but we’ve been playing and we’ve been taking the games to different locations including outdoors. Will have the chance to capture some more clips tomorrow and Monday. I did get this one of our first go at “Goat Tricks”. I forgot how much fun it is to train a dog who is actually nuts about food. AND, I’ve never had one who so easily took to switching back and forth from food to toys. Our tug and toy skills still need a lot of work – just getting back to it now that all the baby teeth are gone. Lisa
Thanks, Tracy!
I will focus on mastering a few specific markers – I’ve been reading and watching and do understand the value – just haven’t made myself use them yet! I trust you’ll keep reminding me 🙂
Jett is a field-bred English Cocker and comes from lines with many field champions and working gun dogs. So yes, she is a “wocker”. (I’m not in love with that term, but it is descriptive 🙂 ). She has a couple of relatives who do agility (and do it well!), but it’s not what her breeder primarily breeds for. In addition to the happy fact that she should not grow a crazy amount of hair, the working genes are serving us well. She’s SO eager to “do stuff” and is more confident than any dog we’ve had in many years. She does get scared/startled occasionally (and when it happens everyone in the world can hear her!), but she recovers really quickly. And, she thinks the entire world and all the people in it are just here for her – a trait I admire in any dog 🙂
She loves toys! She has a nice little puppy retrieve (under controlled conditions!) and has just finished teething so we are getting back to building our tug. Most importantly to me…..we are successfully switching back and forth between toy and food! And, while I understand that I mostly want her to play WITH ME, she is a dog who invents games for herself with toys and it cracks me up. Just for fun here’s what she did the other evening in the yard….(promise I will only post class-related things going forward!) https://youtu.be/w6LzndL83zI
Lisa
It is good to be back! And we miss you!
Here are our first videos – the start of the pre-course work.
The foot targeting looks a little more like “walk across an object”, but I was thrilled that she was landing feet ON it instead of jumping over or any number of other funny things she tries when presented with a new object with which to interact.
And here is the nose targeting in progress. https://youtu.be/xtCbKRVB6iI
Looking forward to our official start on Tuesday!
LisaAnd here’s a compilation of some goat tricks. I edited out the play between and strung a couple of sessions into one video just to show some of the variety of things she’s climbing onto. Hope that’s OK.
Hellooooo! Got a little behind with video and editing and posting, but we’ve been playing games every day. Here’s our progress on the wing wrap foundations from week 1
Thanks for the specific, detailed, helpful feedback as always!!
I also noticed and was surprised by her reluctance to get the toy in the middle of that drive to handler session. It happened again in a different training session with a different toy. It would not have occurred to me to move to a different spot (seems so obvious now)! That really helped. (Getting done teething will help too!)
Here is our start on wing wrap foundations. I edited out the breaks for play, but I think you can tell where the breaks are in the video.
And we tried the send to prop game. https://youtu.be/2bfKOhKF_xI
Drive to handler with adding toy play between reps. https://youtu.be/xNzaYJqtzAI
Here we are with first steps of drive ahead. Well not exactly first steps because I didn’t video dropping the toy right in front of her. Will be happy to back up and video that if needed.
And here is pre game 2 – nose touch a piece of paper in my hand. https://youtu.be/B6LLsP3uHzA Little nut loves hand touches more than any previous dog I’ve trained. Makes me giggle.
First of all – the Zoom class is awesome!! What a great addition to the online class format. I suddenly feel like I am really part of a class. I was already excited to be here, now I am REALLY excited.
Not sure if we were supposed to post video of the pre games, but since Caper is too cute for words , I figured why not. Here is pre game 1 (using a baseball cap). https://youtu.be/BbVxzRq0ldo
