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Turn & Burn:
In your previous feedback, you asked about WM’s age. He is 5 months old this week!
Here’s our turn & burn play with a jump wing. This was right after our tunnel games, and the manners minder was still on the phield. As you’ll see, he occasionally runs over to check the manners minder for a reward but comes right back. Overall, I’m super pleased with how he engaged with me and the toy given that distraction!
Tunnel Shaping:
Wingman has been through a tunnel a handful of times a couple of months ago, more in the vein of early socialization than any sort of foundation training. Until today, I’d not really showed any interest in him doing the tunnel. So, what you’re seeing here is pretty much starting from ground zero.
Parallel Path:
We have done some of this before this class started, but not in a while. He’s able to handle me being much farther from his line with the visuals of the jump uprights than with just our ring on the ground.
Quick question:
For W4 Turn & Burn and W5 Rotated Sends, is it ok to use a jump wing? WM is used to them and that is what we were using in our latest wrap games.
Thanks,
LyndieTurn & Burn
During this holiday week, we are at our “primary” residence in CLT, but a place where WM has only spend about 1-1/2 weeks of his life so far. So new environment and some new training props, since a Prius full of Labradors doesn’t leave a lot of remaining space for gear. Also a new tug from one of my recent arts and crafts projects.
He was pretty distracted in this session. Generally, kind of confused as to why I was was playing “those games” here. Really good for me to see.
The giant black flower pot was a new object for wrapping, and he started out wanting to be a circus pony and stand on it, rather than wrap it. I added the more familiar cones partway through, then transitioned to something more like our original cone wrapping game with a clicker and treats, to help him transfer his knowledge. I’m showing you most of reps (minus the circus pony antics) of each stage here so you can see that progression in his understanding.
A little backing progress, and with new objects and in a new training environment (our home in CLT)! It’s kind of amazing what happens when I give him a chance to offer something! 🙂
Early on, when people recommended that I video my training, I didn’t really understand why.
Now, I can’t imagine life without my many, many Gb of raw video files!
Wow. Thanks so much for this feedback on our latest backing Video! What you’re saying makes perfect sense. When we were doing this and when I was reviewing video, I even thought to myself, “he’s not really “offering” anything.” But I missed the fact that I was waiting for him to problem solve and offer something. And I was puzzling in my head over how I could do this with a motionless cookie hand. But I had the steps out of order!
I’m giving him a break from this game for a day or two, but I’m excited to try again in a couple of days.
Many, many thanks,
LyndieBacking
We’ve done a few quick sessions just to reward standing on the mat or cato board. They are highly salient now, such that when we go outside, he runs around checking all of the places where we’ve trained on them to see if I’ve set them up for him.
On Saturday, we had a good session of backing with the mat (no video, sadly). Today, we practiced again for a few minutes. He did pretty well with the mat but was still backing at an angle about half of the time. When I attempted to transfer this to the cato board, no dice. I helped him a lot for a couple of reps to see if that would flip any switches for him, then stopped.
Do you think it would help to add a verbal when I capture really good reps? This is mostly about hind end awareness, right? Any other ideas? I just don’t think this has clicked for him yet.
Week 3 – SLS-Catch
This video includes a snippet that is not the game per se, but it is the thing I’m most proud of that has happened with WM in the past week! A kind of SLS proofing that is way advanced for where we are. Just as I was starting to play the SLS-Catch game with him, some neighbors who he loves came walking by. I saw them before he did and decided to use the set up to test his engagement a bit. In the past, he would have run immediately to the fence to greet them. The fact that he held his sit-stay for a few beats until I released him was amazing. And the fact that he was noticing them, but re-engaging with me was awesome too. I wish I’d gotten a close up of his face after all of this. He was grinning from ear to ear, and I’m certain that he knew what a good pup he’d been!
Week 3 – Decel Combo
On these reps I omitted the cookie at my knee. He does seem to be turning bit wider, I think.
As a support for blind cross work and other lines in agility when I will send and go, I’ve been using what some call the “flappy tappy” as we move about the yard, house etc. Basically, lightly slapping my thigh to show him which side to come to, and choosing the non-intuitive side sometimes. He’s been reading that pretty well.
Thanks,
LyndieParallel Lines
I meant to include this snippet in my earlier video, so I could ask you about this. I was increasing speed for some parallel lines practice. He did great, but when he was moving faster, he sometimes jumped over the prop, as seen on his 2nd pass here. Would you reward that? He definitely stayed on the line, but he didn’t touch the ring or step inside it.
Thanks,
Lyndie
