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Tunnel
Lots of fun here with more curve and some harder entries. I’m deliberately pushing his envelope on the entries to see what he can do. There was one rep with a blind entry off the back of the curve and he missed his entry because he was watching me run. I’m going to consider this baby’s first layer! LOL!
This is my 10′ tunnel. Do you think it is best that I keep working with this one or should I swap in my 15′ tunnel soon?
You’ll see there is one rep here where my “here” verbal is totally late. I was struggling with using a verbal that doesn’t currently mean anything to him. I need to go back to the easy threadle entries and use the verbal, right? Just take a session and build back up to some distance by connecting the verbal to the behavior?
Edited to add: I looked ahead at the week 9 double whammy tunnel material, and I see what I need to do with the threadle verbal baby steps. Perfect timing!
Thanks,
LyndieGet Out
Our target is hard for you to see in this video, but you’ll figure it out because he did GREAT. Even on my left side. In your last comments on this game, you said it wasn’t clear that he always understood the lead change. Well, this video is fun because it really shows his choices to go out!
There was 1 rep where he very clearly went out but didn’t quite touch the target. I rewarded but less enthusiastically. And the next rep was a solid target hit.
I would say that I do push on him, pet him and “smack” him at times when tugging. I know I did in this session before I remembered to turn on the video because I was paying attention to how he reacted and he didn’t mind it at all.
My 2nd post today (backside slice) was submitted via the iPad with Chrome instead of Safari, and I had the exact same issue. I hit submit, and then I get kicked out of the agility-u site. The submission posts, but I have to login all over again to do anything else.
My other posts today were via the Macbook running Chrome, and all was fine.
Rocking Horse
I put a couple of notes in the video where he got sticky. I think I’m just not showing enough connection in those places. I think looking at the dog’s line is so baked into my brain now that I’m just not giving him enough eye contact in those moments. Do you agree?
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LyndieBackside Slice
These were more like 180-degree wraps than slices because of our small space (rainy day). I was clicking the decision to wrap, and in watching the video, I realize that he sometimes got his treat before he was all the way past the “bar.” I realize that this won’t be an issue when he starts actually jumping, but should I made a point to place the reward deeper in the future?
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LyndieToy and Retrieve Games
WM has been kind of “off” tugging for the past few weeks. Still tugging with Phyzz when competing for toys, but not so much with me. I attributed this to teething (he is 6months old this week and now has all big boy chompers) and some pendulum swing toward food focus. Well, a custom tug that I ordered on Etsy months ago arrived from Poland last week. I did all of the stuff you do to increase value for a toy — occasionally showing the toy to dogs and acting like a lunatic with it, then putting it away again, then briefly letting them touch but not have, etc. over a period of days. They have all become obsessed with knowing at all times where the toy is. And TODAY, it joined WM’s rainy day party in the basement! And I got my tugger back!
We made some progress toward tugging, then retrieving the thrown toy back to hand and resuming tugging!
With Phyzz, I use “In” as my jump threadle verbal and “here” as my tunnel threadle/bypass verbal. So, I would prefer to keep the verbals the same with WM. But using “here” feels intuitively wrong in situations when the dog is already so close to me. I realize that this is my barrier, not WM’s, so I will need to wrap my brain around it! 🙂
The Macbook (logged in right now) is a Macbook Pro running macOS Catalina Version 10.15.7, with Google Chrome as the default browser.
The iPad is `an iPad Pro running iPadOS 14.3 with Safari as the default browser.
I just posted from the Macbook without difficulty. The more I think about the pattern, I’m thinking it may be confined to when posting from the iPad. The next time I post, I’ll try from the iPad with Chrome instead of Safari, for purposes of comparison.
Tunnel
In this session, the right end of the tunnel is curved just enough that he can’t see the exit from the entrance. I added some running and some distance to my sends. Also a rear cross at the entry in at least one rep! He’s hating the collar grab at the moment and gives me a massive teenager side eye if I go for it. So, I’m dropping that from training sessions and counter conditioning the collar grab separately for now.
To my eye, he doesn’t even notice my motion in these reps.
Let me know what you think!
Lyndie
Backside Wrap
I thought he did pretty well with this. There was some fixating on the cookies, but his bends seemed pretty easy, and few were beautifully tight!
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LyndieBackside Slice
This felt very sticky. In the beginning, he stared at me a lot and seemed confused about which side of me he should be on, even though I was really rotated to the side and using my magic cookie hand. He really seemed sure that he should be pointed toward the middle of the bar and not to the outside of the wing. Do you think it would help if we started farther away and just walked toward the jump in parallel path mode with a lot of connection? Maybe my starting closer to the jump was placing emphasis on the jump more than on the line?
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LyndieI have experienced this problem on an iPad running Safari as my browser and on a Macbook Pro using Google Chrome as my browser.
This started about a week ago, when my thread’s posts reached ~160. My forum thread is very slow to load at first. Then, when I submit a post with video link, the page seems to freeze up for 20-60 seconds. Most of the time, I get logged out of agility-u and taken to a view of the class that is public (not for logged in students) and lave to login again before I can do anything else in the forum. When this happens, and I log back in, my post is generally there. Occasionally, though, the post is just gone and I have to recreate it. This is happening every time I submit for the past week or so, including when I was in CLT last weekend with much faster internet.
There isn’t really anything to screen shot, as I don’t get an error. I just get dumped out of the site as though I had logged out. A tech person should be able to compare time stamps of my submissions with my logins to see this pattern.
This does not seem to be happening when I post in the “discuss anything” thread, which is why I suspected that it is related to the number of posts in my main class thread.
I mentioned in one of my posts that I’m encountering tech difficulties. Basically, every time I post anything new, the site kicks me out and I have to login all over again before I can do anything else in the site.
As I mentioned, I think thread is bumping up against some sort of limit for the site (cache per thread would be my guess).
Just letting you know in case you want/need to pursue this in general. I think me creating a second thread will work around the problem for now.
Perch
Here’s another round of the perch game with a lower bowl and objects secured with tape.
I really liked seeing how deliberate he was with his back feet during parts of this! This should help with backing, right? We work at backing every so often. Can’t say there have been any breakthroughs, but I do think there is progress.
Thanks,
Lyndie
