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Hi Tracy,
First session of the “wingin’ it” with the tunnel and wings.
The timing of the rear was critical for him. When the rear was not timed well, he went around the tunnel instead of going in.
In the first few repetitions he also turned the wrong way coming out of the tunnel. We were giving the directional prior to his entry but our motion still indicated the turn towards our last position. He was getting better later in the session but I think he has a little way to go in understanding the rear without being able to see us.
Mike
Thanks for the feedback. We moved into the harder serp drills. A bit of fun working on the second jump. His success rate was over 80% and we felt pretty good about the session.
Hi Tracy, I watched the serpentine concept transfer video and was inspired to head out and try a little bit of it. I only worked on a few one jump and two jump scenarios. He seemed to understand it pretty well, but had to back it up a little bit on the two jump with motion.
Mike
We added in the race track to the counter motion. That was fun. We could not spread it out this time with the space available. We will spread it out more when we can get to the park.
Mike
Wingin’ it session 1. We squeezed in a tiny bit of the wingin’ it drill at the end of our session yesterday. He did great once we started getting the verbals out correctly. I am sure he will love this drill when we add in the race track!
Mike
Hi Tracy,
Thank you for all of the feedback. We will keep working on the timing and line. The park is great as it is a new spot for him and has a bit of shade! A lot of distractions to work through with kids playing baseball and other dogs running around nearby.
Mike
I added this drawing of timing and positions for the rear and pushback. I couldn’t figure out how to upload a picture so put it on YouTube. Karena https://youtu.be/N7zEvwlStXE
Hi Tracy,
We had a short session at the park with a couple of jumps, working on the wrap, backside, and rear. A bit better session. We will continue to work on it!
Mike
I introduced a target (yogurt lid) to him on the flat last week and he was hitting it with his nose but I think he was confusing it with his nose work games (he was trying to freeze with his nose on it). I’ve been working hard on that nose freeze and don’t want a confused dog so… I just decided to put it right onto the teeter and add a treat to it. Well he didn’t really want to eat the treat (cheese) he just wanted to leave and go get his ball. Stinker. Even though he didn’t have that much speed because the wing was set fairly close, this was the first time he was a little naughty about self releasing or not holding his four-on criteria. I did add a little more handler movement up to and past the end of the board. I did notice he was stopping closer to the end this session.
Makes sense! We are going to set up the 2 jumps later today on grass and repeat with your suggestions about shoulder back and connecting. I will try to not raise my arm! Karena
Today we did some teeter (can post tomorrow) and the Straight Line, four ways game. We struggled on this, esp with the rear cross and pushback. Admittedly we are still working on rear crosses with a simple setup. Ronan is usually pretty strong with this pushback verbal so I was surprised he needed extra support (going in close to the jump and altering the setup a bit) to get it. My rear crosses were still not good but got better after Mike and I drew a line in the sand to keep us running the right way (after we added tunnel). My arm was still way too high :(. I added some comments to the video too. What do you think?
Oh it’s also one of his first times doing something this complex at 12”.
Karena
Hi Tracy,
Video for rear cross session 1. We did not get to the full drill as we had to back it up a little bit. He didn’t get it in the first few repetitions. A bit more reinforcement and I think he will understand it soon. We had to overemphasize the rear and not drive to the middle of the bar. That will be in the next session.
Mike
Yes, I agree and I did stop treat tosses as a reward as soon as he started the teeter chasing behavior. Not sure why I felt the need to film the residual of that behavior for you yesterday. I trained a bow at the end of the teeter using a treat. He seems much more willing to take the treat on the teeter versus off of it. I can add tape or a coaster (I’ve done both previously) as it will give him something to aim for. Maybe a piece of duct tape… I used the tape method with my TFT and the target coaster with my pap and other BC. I also forgot to mention yesterday that for some of the reps I will do a front cross and for others, I will lead out a little bit from the end of the teeter before I release him. I have not yet tried a rear cross since he’s not that comfortable with them yet even on the flat.
Tonight we practiced wobble board game (he hadn’t seen this particular wobble board in quite some time so was trying to wrap it LOL) and then we moved on to teeter. The reason that we did not do the initial teeter games for MaxPup3 with him is that he’s been slowly working on teeter for about five months now. For game 1, I was also worried that if the end was propped up, he might just go to the end, stop, and then maybe fly right off.
About a month ago he started this annoying behavior where if I used a treat toss (vs ball) to reward, he would ignore the treat that I threw and run back to try and interact with the moving front end of the teeter. Around the same time, once when he ran outside he just started bouncing the teeter by himself so that it would move. Apparently he does not have a fear of the moving teeter! :O. My first teeter “chaser”.
In case you are curious, here is where he is at today. He’s got a 4-on behavior with a weight shift (he’s does a down if the release is slow). The “attacking the front end of the teeter as it comes down after I run off it” behavior is not present when I use a toy and it’s a lot better when I use a treat nowadays (as I show you here in the video). That said, it was a dangerous behavior and so I pretty much never use a treat toss to reward. I do sometimes use a treat on the teeter as a reward. The table gets lowered again soon one last time!Switched it up a bit the past 2 sessions and we tried our hand at the motion override game. I never trained this skill with my older BC and need to decel to ensure she meets her contact obstacle criteria. It would be wonderful for Ronan to not need that!
Karena
