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That makes perfect sense, thank you, Tracy! yes, it’ hard to remind myself as I used more to larger shelties and experience pap Kite with my handling – they know verbals well:)
This time – straight line with the static toy went much better, I think – no handling needed, I want him to look forward and drive to the toy. The only time when he was confused – when I had 2 toys and lured him with 2d toy away. He ‘forgot’ where his 2d toy was and where to find it. Once I used one toy – it was clear. But he doesn’t like being picked up.
Can we work on his tolerance to pick up or there is another way? I want to use one toy for restraints.He had clear soft turn/straight differentiations this time.
Bow with the static toy – I think it worked well. I could be a bit behind and he was looking at the toy.
When he made a mistake and I didn’t allow him to get the toy – he started looking back at me at first.
I was thinking to try restrained recalls to the static toy next as his favorite game. Then put the target in-between and do the same restraints to bow, and release to the toy?
Thank way – I can stay behind..Progression on soft and straight lines. I slightly increased the space for pin-wheel and added an additional jump for the straight line.
Stays – rewarding when he looks at the target upfront. When he focuses on the target – my movements don’t matter, I could walk while he was holding the position.
bow-stays indoor – again tried to reward when he was looking at the food bowl – his targer -upfront.
wraps: turns vs go straight, flip-aways – he is much better now!
A few short sessions today during our agility class with older dogs. I tried these bow-stays games and tight circles (he is getting fluent with it). Benny is obsessed with my motion and toys, so I used highest value treats for bow and stopped/walked slowly.
The problem with bow: If I just have a static toy upfront – he would run to it without stopping. I need to reward him in the position – for stopping and getting in the right position. When I reward – yes,he looks at me. If I don’t – he can just go straight to the target.
I think stays work better with him that way:
I exchange my tugging toy with the best treat that he likes, then I make different steps/distance and either
release him to the static toy ahead or throw the toy back to him. he needs treats to release the toy and sit – otherwise he would run around offering everything very fast:).
I could also make a few steps away and release to my hand.Long cirved lines – Benny needed some help to find the jump on the curved line. I cued ‘ra’ – soft turn from the tunnel and straight to jump-toy.
Next bow session – I rewarded him in the position sometimes, sometimes – released to the toy. I didn’t have to physically block his path to stay in the position, but he was not consistent.
I think he liked pin-wheels a lot!
Stays:
stays with wraps and farther away from jumps worked better, I tried to change my distance and position for starts.
Wrap and tunnel sends – increased the distance sent from the other DW side to wrap/tunnel.
Stays on jump – yesterday I rewarded in the position with treats, and today I thew the toy back to him, no treats.
It was more messy in the beginning since he was over excited and not get used to start with stays – this is our first try.
I rewarded him in the position and could make a few steps before releasing straight.
Shall I better use treats when I need starts with stays?
Long straight tunnel – he was good finding the entry when I was on the opposite DW sides.
Soft turns/wraps (different cue)
Wraps with toy switch: he could leave the static toy when I lured him with the toy in my hand. he could walk with me without tugging on my toy – or offered wraps to start. He could do wraps ignoring the static toy when I had the toy in my hand. We switched between static and running toys and his forward focus was much stronger.
Benny surprised me a lot – when we finished toy/wrap session – he ran away with his toy to the new long tunnel under DW. It was slightly curved, too long and we never trained it before. when he got closer – he jumped in the air and ran into the runnel with the toy in his mouth. The got our and make huge happy circle to me. So I continue this tunnel play – sending him to the tunnel from ground and wraps. He was overexcited with the thrown toy:)))
Stays: crate sending and releasing to the static toy worked well – he liked it! I also lured him away from the static toy with treats and release to the static toy:
Backing up and tight turns:
I trained crate games a lot to my older dog – it worked great for him but not for Benny.
These games imply the dog must like treats (like Garrets demo terrier) and toy reward needs to be equally rewarding.
Benny doesn’t enjoy treats and loves running most of all, so it’s not as enjoyable for him.My first goal now – forward focus. I know he has no problem with switching toys and running to me – I want the independent focus forward to obstacles.
I want more parallel distance to the jump. I use the static toy for forward focus and I walked with him away with the toy in my hand.
You see here – I put wrap objects at more distance and more lateral – and I had to push Benny with My hand to the jump
to go on the soft turn. It worked but I want him to search for that straight jump independently, with less help.
The next video – I love the European way to teach soft independent turns. It starts from the same big object wrap game (benny loves it).
Then I gradually spread the wings and eventually it shall be a nice big independent circle.
