[mjohannessohn]

Ok, that helps to think about showing the toy well help me turn more…..

So working on the wraps too. I was trying to stand up but many reps I missed the bowls. Want sure if the bowls fade away??? I wondered if me moving made her not wrap??

The last part of the video is sending her through the uprights. She likes this and even though I thought the ruler was ok she is still jumping some. I don’t know if it matters if I throw the toy through the uprights or around the outside. Thinking around might be better in the long run???

[mjohannessohn]

So, I have been struggling with the blind cross drills. I first can’t figure out which hand the toy be in to reward her across my body…I cut alot of my pacing back and forth trying to decide. I think I decided that the toy should be in the hands next to her as I start so when I do cross I can reward across my body. Correct? So there are 6 reps here and this is what I think 🤔 went wrong
First – ok but I was slow
Second – the toy was in the wrong hand
Third and fourth – I was late turning with poor connection so she went behind me.
Fifth and sixth – better connection but turning was late

So, this is fun but the poor dog has to put up with me!!

[mjohannessohn]

So this video is the concept game parallel path and some wrap the wing. So it was amazing how much easier it was for me to figure out how to get her the reward when I changed the prop to a jump. I initially used a jump bump but she seemed to really be jumping. I changed it to a drafting ruler as it was more flat. She seemed to be trying to focus forward. This was like the second try.

We have been doing the wing wraps alot and she seems to consistently havw one time during the session that she doesn’t circle the upright. Not sure why because when I point it out she quickly corrects.

[mjohannessohn]

Yes, I am way behind. My aunt did pass away, and I did drive from Indianapolis to Fargo and back in 4 days getting home Friday night. Violet went with me. I quickly realized that hotel rooms aren’t very big and videoing was not really an option. We did do some training…mainly focus forward and sending to a toy. But now we are back to our routine. This is sending to a prop using food and toys. I don’t think this is the best or smoothest we have done. She is looking at me alot and doesn’t always hit the prop. So hoping for feedback.

[mjohannessohn]

So here is the prop game. I wrote pseudosend because acouple of times I had to point out what we were doing. I wasn’t sure if you meant to tug and then play using food as the reward or sometimes use the tug as a reward. In this session I used the tug as the reward as well as the food which is her kibble. She definitively works more with the toy than the food. She seems to like both but I guess really prefers the tug or at least gets more excited with it.

[mjohannessohn]

Ok, so here is Violet’s first uploaded Handler. I wasn’t exactly sure where to put the link. It is about 5 minutes but she was really excited until she had a couple of wandering away moments.i never know what to do. I give her a couple of chances and then we end. There are some drive to toy, foot targets, nose targets, drive to handler.

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