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A little mix of exercises: Shpile, find my face, patterns, stay (it was off-camera at the end, so I clipped it short. Aelfread was yapping it up as a distraction. A few months ago, he wouldn’t have been able to concentrate.
Rocking horse: advanced. Apparently there were a lot of cookies on the ground.
First, a question: he has started retrieving by crashing into me instead of stopping. I figured I will have to go back to week 1 and work on his breaks. Any other thoughts on that?
Second, we’re struggling with the threadle. He comes around the wing and towards my hand and as soon as I move at all he backs around the wing and comes from the other side (serp). He won’t cross the bar on either side unless I throw the toy. A dead toy is suspicious, apparently. I’ll send video, but if you have any ideas for now, I’d appreciate them.
Rear Cross Progress
Back Up
We’re still struggling with clarifying this concept.Resiliency: novel-exciting
We don’t have a video, but he went to a pet store that he’s been to before, but this time he really noticed the birds at eye level, and was nervous. When we moved away, he was able to reengage with the pattern game. He wanted to go back a few times, so we did and discovered a large guinea pig cage on the ground with two guinea pigs in it. He paid no attention to the guinea pigs and rabbits at his eye level in another cage. He was nervous to inspect the cage on the floor and we were about to leave when the terrier switch flipped, he plopped down and his tail started wagging and he was absolutely fixated. As we were not there to terrorize rodents, we left immediately. They had ignored him until his terrier turned on. He did not want to leave, but once they were out of sight, he responded to the pattern game again. It was a very interesting sequence of events.Patterns on the road. We’re in Canadian Tire here. He wasn’t bothered by people or shopping carts. Tolerates kids but not keen on interacting with strangers.
Stay, in the yard:
Stay, on the road. This has progressed significantly this week.
Foot Target also took a leap forward this week. He’s finally figured it out!
We are just struggling with the foot target. I should have started with a review and been a lot closer. Sorry, it’s a bit long. I was hoping he’d have an “oh, ya! This!” moment, but that was wishful thinking.
Pattern
Stay
We tried this on the grass later and had a lot more success. Not the best session here.
Toys are in the house (figuratively). His canines are not in yet, so grabbing is hard, but he’s keen. Left is still hard, but we’re getting there.
Muso has taught him the joys of tunnels and I wasn’t worried about a full length one to start (more work for me!)
Been away at Arts Camp for a week, so the break worked out. I am, of course, sick from hanging out with 420 gr. 7-12 kids all week, so I blame poor mechanics on cold medication and not poor planning 😉
Combined the novel-neutral with wing wraps since he still struggles with left turns. He knocked the metal box over before we started and was barely concerned, so I wanted to see how he did afterwards.
Unphased by the wobble board.
Back-up attempt 2: I didn’t check my camera angle on the first attempt and he was barely in frame, so he was getting a bit bored this time.
Plankrobatics. Left turns are definitely weaker.
Lots of noise and chatter from the lake tonight (2km away!). He was mildly concerned.
He was already into these before I threw some kibbles in.
Some progress outside.
He managed to slice my finger with his razor fangs, but I think the space and running made it easier for him to move from cookie to toy (to blood). When I got a decel properly, he read it really well!He had a meltdown about the pylon earlier, and once he checked it out, he was ready to work.
