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I called a Right on a tunnel at our trial this weekend and she nailed it!! We got our first title as a result- woo hoo!
That makes so much sense about the directionals – they are already different! Thank goodness. I can’t remeber if you saw it, but Chief won overall highest points at Regionals this year! The ‘Nascar’ lines are a great analogy; I will definitely consider that in the future – I’ve always had a hard time figuring put when I should really connect for a tighter turn and when going wide would be better to maintain speed. If you’ve got some insight on that for River, I’d appreciate it.
I love that River got faster and faster! I think I know the answer, but should I have different 90° turn cues for jumps vs. tunnels? I used Left and Right, but I suspect that might cause confusion when there is a discrimination? I already have hard turn cues out of a tunnel.
Thank you so much for your thorough feedback, always.
Oh! I found video footage of you telling me to use clear verbal markers for the 1,000th time:
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/42292462-0e97-4283-8025-212ecb8e2582Do you have any advice for revisiting running contacts while also teeter training? I am concerned that both behaviours will degrade once I try to put them back together.
I don’t remember if I told you before, but I model all of my feedback to my high-schoolers after your feedback style. I always wonder if I’ve been too harsh, then I read it back later and I’m like: nope, perfect balance of praise and room for improvement (I know that the praise part can be tricky at times!…*cough cough*…verbal markers). Thank you for modeling this style to the dog-training world.
I am looking forward to seeing you in person again some day. Can’t wait for the next course. Thank you 🙂
Clear markers are going to be our downfall. This was the first session with no warm ups on elevator games. Moved from larger target to smaller, but not covered yet. Used food on this one, but will switch to toy from this point on.
I think she was tired at the end of Part 1. It was HOT! None of the dogs are used to it yet. We went from 18°C to 30°C in a week.
Teeter on the road! Billboard target reduced to larger, clear target. No grass cover.
https://youtu.be/P9eZwaONzL4 Part 1
https://youtu.be/0P2vvr4lpPo Part 2Cool 😎
She has a hard time engaging with toys if food is available (it almost becomes a punisher). I’ll have to plan that strategically. We’re scheduled for our first “new” teeter tomorrow. Will have food on hand! Should I start with the elevator or crazy elevator in a new place still with a big target, or just use the smaller one and keep it uncovered?Target covered in grass (almost completely to start) on plank. Same target confounded her on elevator game. Uncovered it partially. Switched to smaller target covered in grass after. Removed entirely for last rep.
The target was covered in grass here. Should I be concerned that she slowed down a little on the full teeters?
I think we’re getting there. Tried target fading by covering with grass on a smaller familiar target and she liked that.
