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Foot target. Starting to get it; I wasn’tclose enough to start. He doesn’t switch from toys to food and back as easily as Muso did at that age. They are SO different from each other…but also the same, LOL. He is determined to do exactly what she does.
Self Control – 1st attempt
Resilience walk at Home Depot. I initially wanted to go in the garden center as it’s quieter, but he led me across the parking lot first and then we went in the front door, so we had to roll with it.
In the swcond video, his apprehension was about plastic bags of dirt flapping on the other side of the wall. It was fascinating to watch his choices after that: He wanted to explore, but he never went back up the closest aisle to the flapping. As he moved away at the end, he got more confident.
My threadle cue is the dog-side arm down and back. I agree that her slices on any side are extremely problematic commitment-wise. The threadle-wrap cue is the opposite arm.
I haven’t struggled this hard remembering a course before. I must have had to look at it a dozen times and I still got it wrong. Same with the handling; I’m sure I used the wrong arm more than once. I had a pretty wicked headache for a few days, so let’s hope that that’s it and not a new, fun symptom of perimenopause.
Package 3, Agility 1. I am trying to plan rewards more consistently rather than trying to push through the course now. Does this seem reasonable at this point? She had great teeters and weaves here.
She was NOT impressed with no toy in hand. Very confused. I still struggled remembering the first one for some reason. 2nd one was way better.
Well, I thought it was odd that Drift wouldn’t tug on the ring since he has been tugging on it up until now…but I just discovered that his crazy tug games with Muso pulled out ALL of his front teeth since yesterday!! So, no wonder he was like “no, thanks, I’m good”. Poor dude.
Package 4 Jumping 1 – Please ignore my dog trying to destroy herself by taking the covered dogwalk. We were largely unsuccessful on this. After both attempts, I tried it without the toy in hand and nearly got the whole thing correctly…so that’s interesting. I didn’t film that try.
Walk Through & Attempts
2nd Try
He has been SO hungry lately, and my only free time has been meal times, so we’ll add toys when he’s ready to play. We did a ‘2 bowl’ session with toys later, but I didn’t film it.
Thanks for the feedback – he is excellent with toys and bringing them back, so I can move it outside. I’m in no hurry with him. To be honest, it would have been better if I’d gotten him in a year or two when I’m feeling more confident with Muso.
It’s been pouring everyday here, so we’ll get back to CAMP soon, I hope.
I am really struggling to get up the lines, and it is really obvious that I am over-supporting things because I don’t trust the skill.
Two significant problems that I don’t know how to efficiently solve is her increasingly terrible start line and her tendency to run past backside slices. I’ve had to really over-handle backside slices and it really made things difficult this week at two seminars where she wouldn’t commit to the bar without my support, so I couldn’t leave and it ruined the next part of the course.
The big course running and troubleshooting without stopping is great and has made a difference, but I feel like I’ve hit a plateau and am now compensating for weak skills. She even tripped the eyes at Nationals because she creeped forward and messed up a faster time on a clean run. Help!!
Yes, she bailed on the weaves both times in course 2. I hadn’t considered the toy on the ground as a possible cause since she didn’t go for it (and had rejected it for the toy I had in my hand). I need more reps with toys on the ground…it’s becoming a problem.
