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Wind in Your Hair Game
Should I be continuing to move through the jump? I tend to slow down or stop my motion as she’s going over the jump to get the toy. Is it contradictory that I am slowing down as my reward placement has her powering through the jump?
Wrap Proofing Game #1
This went better than expected. Is my placement of reward ok?
We did work a little on just the tunnel (not in this video) using the verbals with mostly success and a few not so great reps. I think when it comes to the tunnel I need to be very careful of the setups with my positioning and making sure there is success and a good loop of “do the thing, get reinforced, then come back to me” in order to avoid all the self reinforcing tunnel behavior.
Jumping Foundations: Set Point with Moving Target
Stays were definitely a lot more difficult with this setup so I had to do a lot more of throwing the second toy back to her. We practiced this the other night and I was surprised how “bad” I was. I definitely thought she stayed but once I looked back at the video, she broke just before release many times… so this was take two from tonight and I tried to slow down my timing of release.Introducing the Set Point
The jumps were set 5 feet apart. I think I maybe could’ve placed them further apart.
Pre-Game: Wrap Verbals
Part of the reason I haven’t worked more on “either or” setups with the tunnel vs. wraps is I feel like she doesn’t really know and understand her ‘check check’ and ‘dig dig’ verbals for wraps. In theory she should be able to turn the correct direction even if I’m not on the inside of the turn (ex. if I was rear crossing and wanted a tight turn on the jump). I think that she still perceives them as positional cues. I have tried to be on the non-obvious side and she just ends up getting frustrated.
