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Do you feel that teaching a tight right and tight left verbal would be beneficial?
Stark’s right and left is a soft right and left. So tight pinwheels could be a problem. Thank you AKC.
Threadle wraps
Here is a video of our first couple sessions on threadle wraps. I was pretty pleased with how quickly he picked it up but I think that’s because of all of the fabulous foundation work from AU. 🙂
We are headed out of town for a long weekend at the beach. I have my skills drill set up to do for when we get back. 🙂
Here is some verbal work and motion override work. There was not much traction on these mats so I did not move much or go above a walk.
Hi ya! Yes, I have him jumping 16” and he feels he needs to fly over the jumps and go really fast and that decelerating is dumb. We have to work on our turns at this height. Which I tried to do this morning. I did the exact same set up and went off of your feed back. I think we did a little better this morning.
This week I plan to replace the teeter with the weaves. 🙂
We worked on the first set of Sequences for Success using the teeter. I was pretty pleased with how we did. I used a target plate and food to help reward the end behavior. When Stark was on my left with the teeter, I noticed he jumped up at my hand after the jump. My toy was in the hand so I swithced it for hte next forund. The next time I did it, he jumped and barked again. I noticed that I gave a verbal pretty late so maybe that is why??
Anywho, here is the video. 🙂I would first acclimate to the environment in general with a little short fast fun sequence, jumps and tunnels, yeeeehaw!!! When he is acclimated (which will happen pretty quickly) show him the teeter with a bit of bang game for nice big rewards, just one rep on each side.
Then take a break while he is still high and before he settles in (and don’t do any other stuff, just let him chill.”We definitely did exactly this. What I did not do is bring Sizzle. We did the weaves at the very end when we were leaving. We took chill breaks, he drank water rolled in the grass and got some great belly scratches.
I will definitely bring Sizzle next time. Also I’ll set up straight approaches. The discs only come out for disc class and the teeter. I actually haven’t seen him love one toy over the other but the discs are special.
When we were getting ready to leave our teeter tour the other night I decided to try the weaves with Stark. It was set up to practice a nice threadle exit. I didn’t do many of these as it was hot and at the end of our training session, plus there were 12 poles and I would rather do this with 6 (which I will practice this more at home with 6). Our success rate was low, 50% but I was was having to feel out how fast/slow I could move and how far from the exit I could be also I didn’t want to do anymore. We could have had a higher success rate if we kept going but I quit while we were ahead.
We went on our first tour the other day. I was happy with how he handled a new environment especially since it was on an active working farm. We followed your plan which went nicely. We ended the session with one full teeter. his dinner (raw beef) was out front of the teeter as a reward.
The rewards gradually increased as the difficulty increased. We started with chicken and a toy, then went to hotdog and toy, then went to 1/2 his raw for the last elevator game before he did the whole teeter.
I could see where he was trying to feel out where the tipping point of the teeter was but he kept going. So I’m guessing this was a good full teeter??
I’m hoping that by doing this tour his confidence will increase on the teeter over time and it will get faster.EXTREME RC Take 1!
Action!!
There were a couple entries that he struggled with. I worked on making it easier for him when he was not successful. It took a handful of tries but once he got it, the light turned on.
On it! watched some videos this morning. My list of things to work on include:
Extreme Rear crosses
Serp Exits
Counter motion
Threadle EntriesI think we can get this done all in one session. Hahaaa! Just kidding. 🙂
TEETER PLAY TODAY. I starte with the bang game, then did the crazy elevator game, then the full teeter. Still not extremly driving to the end but it was, okay. I’m guessing with the arousal of a trial environment it will get faster???
I tried to get his arousal up by doing a little mini course and well, that made things worse. He stopped in the middle of the teeter. I had a couple of pieces of chicken left so I ended with a crazy elevator game with chicken and then a quick release.
So, I am wondering…… with my paps, I put a spoon/measuring cup on the end of the teeter and they got rewarded for running to the end and driving down while I was away from the teeter. I am thinking this may not be a bad idea for Stark.
We are doing a teeter tour this Thursday to Paige’s house and I need to set a game plan for Stark. I only rented the ring for 30 minutes. I don’t need all that time to do his teeter.
Oh! Here is the video from this morning.
I’ve got to work threadle entries as well. I really haven’t worked those at all.
Probably because that is a weakness of mine and I don’t know how to really teach it. LOL“ serping across the exit from ahead” do you have an example of that?
Did Electra pick them up pretty easy?
Here is some more find’em tracks using 6 poles.
I he had a tough time coming to me out of the poles. He was locked on the jump in front. I had to break it down for him.
