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Morning! I am having trouble using link, but pasting into the post area seems to work.
Poles are probably 2 feet apart, so maybe you are on to something! Let me know if you have additional feedback after you watch it. Thanks!
Still working on getting more success from right side, 2 poles. I have to open poles 1 and 2 to 1 and 7 for success. When I move 1 and 2 back to straight, we don’t have good success on the right. When on my left, we can have straight 1 and 2 poles.
Thanks,
LisaSounds like a plan, but pretty sure I did a couple of successful sessions with 1 straight pole.
I am wondering if I should go back and do a couple of sessions with just the straight pole before going back to 2?
Thanks!
Here’s today’s session. We had done a little before and she is very good from the left, and as you said dogs have a weaker side, which is when she is on my right.
From the right, you will see she stopped in between poles when I was at 1/2 o clock. She moved forward with my motion, which you did say not to do. Need to master with no motion.
You will see that Poles 1 and 2 straight were too challenging so I opened them back up. Should I spend a session or 2 working 1 set only at 12 and 6 until she masters that with just 2 poles?
Thanks!
P.s. All great feedback, thanks much!
P.s.s. I found a bigger bowl, still not big enough! 🙂Very helpful! Did a few 2/8 and 1/7 open poles throwing the cheese and closed up straight for a round. She did great. And I even got the cheese into the bowl from time to time. Who would have thought!
Supposed to rain so will have to go back inside. Tomorrow will add the second pole again.
Thanks!
LisaHaving trouble with left side, even when she’s on the outside. Did a short session at lunch and will do a few more reps on left and add the second pole if goes well.
Can you share how you were able to get your one dog that was afraid of the manners’ minder to be comfortable with it so you could use it? When Maia was missing from the left, she grabbed the cheese before I could. Went back to frisbee at RT and cheese to call her back. Manners minder would be big help.
I don’t have the tone on, it’s the noise of the inside wheel. I’m sure she’ll be afraid of the tone, too, but will get to that. I move it around the first floor and put high value treats in it. She will go up to it and eat the treat. I put in another one when I notice it’s empty.
Any ideas for what to do next? It’s probably been almost 2 weeks since I pushed the dispense button.
Noticed your coming to Chicago area for a seminar! One day I will join you live! This is my first dog, so have a ways to go before I can work with you! Maia is almost 3.
Thanks!
Great feedback! You are right to call out that I need to put the kabosh on letting her continue to do things without my asking. It’s a bad habit I’ve let her fall into as there are things I love her to offer. I have been trying to call her back to me with the treat and that works well, but you are right, she more often than not takes off without the cue. I just started using a sound to cue her.
How do you recommend I get her to wait for my cue? Make her sit/stay at every hour of clock?
My son was treating her in both videos but for some reason she started looking back, don’t really know what that was about. I had to encourage her to go to Alex for her treat.
Today I rented some ring time and worked by myself. I placed the frisbee at the reward line, which I have done before, working by myself. It’s really a bad idea because she gets more excited about that than a treat. But she will leave it at the reward line and runs to it. But since she loves the frisbee even more than treats, she was going through many, many times without me asking to get to the frisbee. On the positive side, she’s choosing to do it! But I get it, I need to be in control.
So, recos for making her wait for my cue? No reward at all if she goes through without my asking?
I haven’t done the throwing the treat into the bowl as I think she’ll look back at me. But think it’s worth a shot, if I can find a big enough bowl for my very bad aim. 🙂
Lastly, I think, I was doing the forward motion? I thought I was. By that I was walking down the reward line. Or do you mean adding a hand cue as motion?
Thanks!
