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Countermotion this morning 🙂 too much thinking on my part lol! I started with the clicker and then ditched it, easier without, but then switched hands to toss the cookie lol
Thank you Tracy!
We tried Prop Game 1 with a RC. I was doubting myself if I was really RCing LOL! I even started walking it without Sunnie, well she was following me, so I stopped, I didn’t want to confuse her 😀
Played a bit on the Backing Up. Am I making sense to her with my mechanics? 😀 Maybe the session went on a bit too long too?
Hi Tracy! Thank you for talking me off the ledge with the bowls LOL!
You are welcome to have separate markers, but I don’t think you need separate markers. The dogs are fine with get it meaning thrown or placed, as long as it is out ahead. My dogs have a get it that covers toys/treats that are out ahead moving or placed and there is no confusion. They have a lot more awareness of what is happening and don’t need the extra verbals.
Whew! Perfect!! Get It! Will be my dead toy marker, love it. Less words for me the better LOL!
Thank you for tips with the backing up, we’ll give that a whirl! 🙂
Tonight we played Prop Game 1 Parallel -FUN!! I left the clip of the start of the session for you – Ya think she has a wee bit of value for the potholder?! LOL! I’m out of site a little because I had to walk diagonal in the room so I had more space 😀
Just for more FUN we did the WW with a crate. I left the bowls more visable since it was a much larger prop! She had fun with this 🙂
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback & thoughts on the bowls 🙂
So we’re good on playing our stillness game. She will learn thru different games that the bowls can be used in many ways. It’s just that with the cone wrap I presented a picture that looked like the stillness game therefore she made a bee line to it. Will we ever be able to use the bowls with “obstacles” for wrapping for example like the cone or we will figure out a different approach? 😀
Do I need a marker word for a dead toy or dead lotus ball? >
I think it depends on where it is. Out ahead? Your ‘get it’ will work nicely for that!I’ve never used a dead toy before. All I know is that it’s pre placed. 😀 While I love Get It – I use that for thrown cookie or toy. That won’t be confusing?
Here is our attempt at BackUp, not the first session. I was playing around will the balance pad & a wedge along with my mechanics. I was just confusing Sunnie more! Sometimes I need to get my bearings too LOL! I couldn’t get her to move back after I gave her the intial cookie, she just stood there. So I ditch the props, lured her further between my legs and finally saw the little backing up to click! 🙂 Still a work in progress, but I get what I have to do now 😀 <I think!>
Aha! Watching both of these, I see why she goes to the most direct route to the dish 🙂 The stillness game is all about focus on the dish – and when the dish gets to the other side of the cone, the context is almost entirely the same (including being held similarly) that she thinks it is the go-to-dish game.
Ok! I see what you mean now. It IS the same picture as the stillness game 🙁 She’s so smart she was doing what she knows, the hooman was on the wrong page 😀 Honest opinion, should I not continue with that game since we will be using bowls with you? Or is it too late, she “knows” that exercise/picture already. I don’t want to confuse her either.
We went back to the barrel with moving the bowls behind me. She caught me a few (ok maybe many LOL) times moving the bowls which interrupted her flow. Otherwise it was FUN to see her run!! 😀
Questions regarding the Resilience Game 2 lecture 🙂 I need help with some markers please. So far I have: Get It- thrown food or toy, TRADE- drop whatever is in your mouth (good or bad) for a cookie GOOD- I hand deliver cookie YES- come to me for cookie. I would like to add STRIKE-toy reward in my hand to grab & tug with me. Do I just repeat the word when she does this action & that’s how she’ll learn what it means? CATCH – how do I teach this? 😀 I throw cookies at Sunnie and she looks at the ground waiting for them to drop LOL! Do I need a marker word for a dead toy or dead lotus ball? I never had more then 3 marker words with my previous dog. I only taught her what they meant during the past 2 years. I would just say all the words all the time SMH. I didn’t know 🙁 So I want to do better for Sunnie 🙂
Thanks Tracy 🙂
Here is a short clip of the exercise I am referring to above. Basically teaching the dog that stillness = the release cue to the reward. Teaching an informal stay. This is just step 1 (this is not my creativity, it’s from another class) I don’t want to muddy the waters. I hope that it’s 2 different contextes & I can continue with both somehow 🙂
We gave SSC a whirl this morning with being closer – she still cut in! I should have stopped at the last one she was successful, but I did one more – bad momma 🙁 I’m stumped. I have been doing an exercise where she drives right to the bowl after a 3 sec delay, I”m holding her collar. Is this screwing her up for this exercise? She needs to learn eventually to not go to a “dead toy” or by pass the toy or bowl right? So I don’t *think* that 2 exercise I’m doing should be confusing? It’s in 2 different contextes right? Thanks Tracy!
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback! 🙂 Has anyone told you that you are brilliant?! 😀 not only do you share the how to but the why, the emotion & everything else. I hope I get to train with you in real life someday! 🙂
Thank you for your thoughts on Sunnie’s toy play & food play. Great food for thought and things I never thought of that I may need to alter for better success all around 🙂
I didn’t get video, but I dragged out the wobble board on a laminate floor so it would make noise. We did some circles so it would really bang LOL no issues at all! Check that off the list 😀
“Going well until it didn’t” basically sums up puppy training LOL! 😂😝 LOL! this was really funny & made me feel OK that things went sideways and will continue to go that way from time to time 😀
I looked back at Wed session of SSC, she deliberatley went under my arm twice to get to the dish. I was even close to cone. You’re right, it’s the timing, she was going straight and then veered under my arm to go to the dish on my verabl. I’ll try this again and not say dish so soon & see what happens. So good girl on Sunnie for listening to da momma LOL!
Our Magical Toy Races the day after I was asking if my puppy was broken 😀 This was after breakfast. I wanted to experiment to see if we started with toys before bringing out any food, how that would go. Here is how it went. I spent more time playing with the toys than the race itself, I didn’t want to lose the toy play momentum & it’s just fun, I love playing with her!
Since Sunnie was still hopped up on toys I wanted to try the wing wrap game, but I really didn’t know how to incoporate the toys, she lost interest, so I didn’t push it 🙂
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback 🙂
Tried adding a little motion to the plank. No problem at all & I think she liked it LOL! I wasn’t fair to her with my luring when she fell off – oops 😀
SSC folding was going so well until it didn’t. I didn’t realize until I read your lecture on clean mechanics & markers that I was using the wrong marker word! I was saying Get It which is thrown food or toy. I said Get It because you did in the demo video LOL!! Food in a Dish is DISH, she actually didn’t know DISH until we trained it this week. We tried SCC folding a few times this week without success as the bowl moved further, she was cutting in, but I didn’t get a chance to post it here. Tonight we tried again, but this time I moved the bowl in smaller increments. She’s cutting in, I didn’t know if I should reward so I did & then aborted when I didn’t know how to proceed! We were at 2 min anyway, so it was good that I stopped! 😀
We ended with Prop Game 1 to practice Yes (come to me for reward) 🙂
I think I broke my puppy LOL! Her toy play has kinda left the room. I don’t know if it’s the time of day (befere or after breakfast/dinner), if I’m using her kibble first for training then (trying to) use a toy, me – my mechanics or what really. Silly question, she is playing alot more with my older dog lately, is that jepordizing her play with me? Thank you 🙂
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
That is a great resilience moment where there is a little pulse of stress that her body was able to regulate and dismiss (under the hood, her body was working to balance the release of stress hormones back to baseline).
Love this! I am learning so much from you! Breaking down the behavior like this! 🙂
Yesterday morning we did some stuff, with puppy class at night I didn’t get a chance to post 😀 My “cooperative” little puppy went feral at class last night LOL! I brought a bully stick for when the instructor was talking, but that backfired this time. She was all about the bully or just wanted check out everything else, including her neighbors. We went on a bunch of objects again, this time a play tunnel came out. She was GAME ON! She knows a tunnel from when she was just a wee one. Sunnie – tunnel= in & out by herself back & forth, then we jump on the tunnel 😀
Prop Game 1 – went back to using food to get her back to the ‘start’ & rewarding from me not on the prop. My YES marker is run to me for reward. I don’t think she knows it yet & I think I needed to add movement to myself to drive her back to me. I just ran out room 🙁
Plankrobatics! this time I stood up & practiced our circles & some sits & down 🙂 I have a teeter plank buried under the snow. One day we’ll be able to use it! lol!
Barrel Fun! Practiced your suggestions- bowl positions, me sitting then standing. I added the distance because I saw her really digging in so I wanted to see how far she could go, but ready to pull the barrel back if we needed to! 🙂
Yes, Lowe’s employees were great 🙂 As I was leaving one man said ‘leaving already’ Yes, I ran out of cookies LOL! (I used most of her lunch 🙂 ) She met public folks too “oh look at the puppy” lol!
btw the lady she sniffed told me she has cats & a dog- that’s why I told her she smelled good! LOL!!
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback 🙂
you can also mix in reaching down to touch/gently apply pressure to her neck or chest or scoot your hand under her belly, so she is happy with that too in case you ever need to hold her and there is no collar available (like in an emergency situation).
This is brilliant! Thank you 🙂
The toy races were perfect here because even though she had a lot of visual distractions around her at first, the flying toy plus your high energy really got her focused on the game despite all of the other options available to her. I think these games also cover some of the stealth self-control games too because there were plenty of novel things in the environment and she was great about ignoring them.
Thank you for bringing that to my attention! Wow! I’m incredibley proud of her & for her age, wow! 🙂
Today we went to Lowe’s for a resilience walk. First time we’ve been out in public other than the vet & puppy class. Sunnie only had 1 set of shots when the 1st set of games were released so I was hesitant going anywhere just yet. She had awesome experiences! I took a bunch of videos lol! I chose this clip specifically because she experienced a loud noise & recovered quickly! As we were walking along she would periodically check in – so I rewarded that with cookies and praise 🙂 Our feel like temps were in the negatives today, so it was great to ‘train’ indoor at a novel location!
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback! I will make the adjustments next time we visit those games 🙂 (can’t wait to try them out!)
Today we took a road trip to a bigger house LOL! So we could try toy races & BC 🙂
After some acclimation in a strange place & acting silly running around with the tug toys I got engagement and we were off to the races! Sunnie was so excited she started without me 😀
Next we tried BC! I kinda got stuck on the one side, it takes alot of thinking for me LOL!
Tonight we revisited collar grab. I haven’t posted video until now, but we have practiced here & there. Hard to remember that one since she doesn’t wear a collar! 😀
Hi Tracy! Thank you for the feedback!
She was on fire! You should probably get the first toy out of her mouth before throwing the second toy LOL because she can’t run as fast with the big toy in her mouth. Was she doing the pointing again at the end here?
YES! I didn’t realize she was running with a toy in her mouth LOL! we were having so much fun!:)You can add in ‘ready’ as you focus forward word when we eventually bring it to a jump!
Oh Cool! I’ve never had that cue!:D
We tried the Prop Game 1 with side & back cue. I struggled a bit getting her back to the ‘start’ tonight. The previous session (which I didn’t post) I used hand touch & cookies to get back to the start, but that only brought more attention to my hands. So I tried tonight not using food, but I’m not sure if I did this ‘correctly” 😀
The plank is not new to Sunnie. I have a bunch of my fitness equipment in my dining/kitchen area, so she walks, climbs over “stuff” all the time! She likes to be high so the klimb is her favorite spot lol! Me & the plank that is new! 🙂 She hopped on & off no problem, so we went with some spins and elevated a little!
Tonight we tried wing wrap with a large object. She struggled going from my right to left (like she did with the cone) when I increased the distance. I let her try a few times & then brought it closer so she was succesful!
