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Thank you Tracy! I will try again with your suggestions! 🙂
THIS is hard not to do LOL! So you can also look at your hand instead of her cute face to help cue the threadle.
Here we go with Rocking Horse, well more like trying to intersperse toy play with “work” 😀 It was REALLY windy so you know what that means for Sunnie, lots of movement- leaves, grass, birds, whatever Yee Haw! Please don’t hold back on suggestions! LOL! 🙂 Thank You!
Hi Tracy!
The patterns set up her brain to ignore the distractions even better!
I need to learn me some more Pattern Games 😀 Get It seems to be our “go to” I can use this & get her off birds, but I don’t want to wear it out LOL!
Tonight we tried adding motion to Serp & Threadles! We had some trouble shooting to start and I did some slicing before we got the end product, sorta. We were having a blast and she “scared” me when she did put the dots together lol! Flying like a rocket ship, yikes! I left in the trouble shooting in the video so you can see where it started & how it ended. This session got me pumped with a holy shit moment. What is this kid going to be like when she is running full out and not doing this from a sit stay?! I loved seeing the little bits we’ve been doing turn into a big bit! Working with dead toy, revisting a skill we did awhile ago, just to name a few bits! Sunnie is a latent learner – it amazes me when we leave something alone & then go back, it’s wild!
I also have a training session with toy- toy doing rocking horse -part 2, it’s kinda long about 3.5 min , I definitely need help! I didn’t want to bombard you with 2 ‘long’ videos at oen time 😛
Thank you Tracy! Busy adulting & just be a dog week 😀
Tonight was so pleasant we tried Rocking Horse again! Sunnie was battling with the outside environment big time. I only lost her once to a bird at 32 sec, but I got her back by yelling Get It! She saw me toss the food, I was very dramatic LOL and came flying back, YAY!
I do have a ‘go for a run’ cue which I use to let him have a big run with the toy…
I’m trying to do that with the birds – when it’s Ok to chase and when it’s not – a work in progress!
you can use the volume dial game to get her looking at you and really engaged, or a pattern game.
Love this idea & Get It worked great when I needed her to leave the bird and come back! 😀
Good Morning! I hope it’s nicer where you are! 2 cold days (temps dropped like 40 degrees!) of 50 & rain!
I personally do not let my youngsters wander between reps, because it risks creating a conflict/frustration when I don’t want them to wander. With my youngsters, I only want complete focus and engagement in the ring, so I will reward them then if I need to talk to the instructor,
Should I practice this at home too when we train? Once she has a station behavior I’ll use that?!
Sat morning before the rain came we tried what you suggested- warmed up with turn & burn with big wings 😀 and then went into rocking horse. What ended up mostly in these 2 lessons is Sunnie breaking her stay. I have to admit I am not saying “wait” and then when she does break there is no consequence (except not doing the thing right away) I just “reset” her. Should I help her out by saying Wait at this point in her training? And what should I be doing when she does break? She struggled a bit at the pole barn the other night too with staying, so finally I said my words & she stayed put. With so much going on in the environment I wait until she looks at me, same when we train elsewhere. OR should I ask for a “LOOK” (which means look at me) ?
Here is our warm up!
Rocking Horse with Wings!
This morning we played around with Find My Face. I got a little turned around myself, LOL! “did I go this way & I need to turn away from her” thoughts swirling in my head 😀 Then she did a fancy move at the end LOL So I stopped because she had me cracking up! I tossed for any movement back toward me, not necessarily eye contact. It is her most favorite Game ever. Thanks to you 🙂 I use this outside when she feels like she shouldn’t go back in the house. It’s more fun to have a holle roller or ball in her mouth and play keep away. But if I start playing Get It she drops the toy toy and we make our way up to the house. Once we get close she races up to the deck to get more kibbles! I taught her Get It & toss kibbles on the deck so now she knows when her she’s up there kibbles come. I do this every time we go in, potty, play time, Get It > kibbles on the deck 🙂
Good Morning! Thank you Tracy 🙂
We tried Rocking Horse Part 2 last night. I forgot to hit record for the 1st session, so here is the 2nd after a break in between. It’s short because I wasn’t sure if I was doing this properly & didn’t want to keep going LOL! This is one of those exercises that I felt I needed a person live watching me LOL! Fun tho’ I loved adding some more handling together, good for me (mentally!) to practice too!
The other night we had a lesson at the pole barn. Instructor commented “Sunnie was more focused tonight” but reminded me that can change next time due to her age. 😀 said to myself yup you reminded me of that awhile ago LOL! Question, Is it Ok to let Sunnie wander off in between reps? Or should I keep a thumb on her? when the rep is finished I reward but should I make sure she is still connected with me? Keep her connected until our turn is over? I”ve been letting her, but mostly she leaves me on her own! when the exercise is over, I am not making sure she stays with me, sometimes I do but not every rep. Hope I am making sense! She does come back when I call her, but not snappy, it may take a bit, while she is exploring in the pole barn. This happens at the turf place too.
Also, I noticed and maybe it’s just a coincidence, (but I know you like the brainy stuff, me too!) she was quite wired when we came home from that lesson. We got home about 9 pm and she was still “busy” after 10! I thinkshe was overtired and just didn’t want to settle. Which is her MO sometimes! But when she does crash, she crashes hard. She’s always done this, even when she was a wee one at the breeder. I am teaching her that after dinner is chill time. She’s getting it most nights 🙂
Thanks Tracy! 🙂
Good Morning! We went out early because it has become ungodly hot here! 90’s smh not normal for NY!
Sunnie knows her left & right verbals, familiar with this set up from ‘fitness’ (cavaletti set up) & I use bowls with that exercise. She LOVES the vito games 😀 For the left turn I think my setup was incorrect? Last rep I think I got it right? She was SO cute on the right turn first doing a turn on the flat before heading to the jumps LOL!
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
I gave the threadle wraps & threadle tunnel a break tonight 🙂 Thank you for all that feedback & thoughts SO helpful!!
We’ve added the volume dial game, so feel free to skip to it – it is all about increasing arousal to get great engagement and focus, even with insane distractions 🙂
We tried this tonight with food. Your thougths on this one?! I wasn’t sure if I was doing this correctly LOL! When I tried to get her to turn L & R you will see she went to her fav – MIDDLE! lol!
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
What I mean by that is you can still make an obvious show of your hands for the cue as she is coming to the correct side of the xpen setup, but you don’t need to do as much of the big hand movement to turn her away. She might need it on the first rep or two as a reminder but then you can probably keep your hands pretty stationary – and that is ideal!
Gotcha! Short session tonight after the tunnel fun 🙂 and I totally forgot to use my words 😀
Tunnel threadle didn’t go exactly as planned & I think I went too fast in the progression when she started to have struggles 🙁 Also, I don’t have a tunnel threadle cue- yet, so for tonight I just said tunnel.
Ok! We’re gonna go with Flip when I remember to say it, LOL!
Well we had fun playing, but I think I went to the other extreme of not using my outside are too much and I tried real hard not to move my feet. Not sure if this is how it’s supposed to look, I’m thinking no LOL! You get to see Sunnie’s brain firing in all directions between trying to work & bird distractions! 😀 I think she did pretty well considering 🙂
Oh I forgot to add – I don’t have a threadle wrap cue- yet! I use IN IN for threadle slice 🙂 Do you have an ideas I could throw around? 😀 One friend uses Swing lol! Thank you!!
Soooo we took this games outside, but I didn’t want to carry the suitcase outside LOL! I don’t have a tall cone – gotta get one! So I thought what’s heavy that she won’t knock over that is already outside?!
Hmmmm XPEN! 😀 It’s shaped like a triangle. After watching the video I don’t think I executed the exercise properly 🙁 My feet felt straight for one, but my arms – yikes! I did give Sunnie ample room to navigate around, better than I did with the suitcase tho’ lol!Thank you Tracy!!
Since you offered, I am going to start a new thread! This one is reeeeeeally loooong! LOL!
Good Morning!
I watch the adolescent webinar over the weekend- great insight on what to expect and jam packed with lots of brain stuff info too- Loved it!!
Was the forward focus at the lesson to the front side
It was just the start with a bowl. I’ll wait until I see it here with the games 🙂
So to help her NOT do that, I think we should switch what she is wrapping: Do you have a big cone or an upright suitcase/roller bag or anything that is very stable and won’t move if she pushes it? Those will provide the same visual, but pushing them actually will delay her from getting back to you, so I bet she chooses the more efficient path of going around them without touching them.
Tried the suitcase first then put a heavy detergent bottle in the suitcase 😀 When she hit I did reward her for effort -only 1 kibble and when she got it she got a handful. Is this the right approach, if she hits, still reward or withhold reward?
Good Morning!
Thank you Tracy especially for the whole ‘chapter’ on adolescence! No one has ever told me that and I think this is VALUABLE information for this loco coco 🙂 The timing of your inforamtion could not have been more perfect. Sunnie & I shared a private lesson Fri morning at an agility arena with turf. Not the dirt one we were at a few weeks back. While we took turns appropriately, I also had to remind myself to give her ‘breaks’ while training too. Talk about multitasking- listening to the instructor, playing food games with Sunnie (sometimes we did middle after she did some run abouts checking out the environment) and remembering what the next “sequence” was LOL! The Kid gave it her ALL every round. Her tongue was hanging out after each round 😀
This morning we tried BS slice indoor. I wanted to practice indoor so I was closer to her and could concentrate on my mechanics better walking a straight line lol! I also wanted to try to remain silent as she rounded the barrel since that caused crashing outdoors ( Hitting the barrel happened when you gave the ‘yes’ marker and presented the treat – she drove to it and hit the barrel. The other reps had similar timing and she was much better about not hitting the barrel.
My mechanics went out the window after the 1st crash, I was processing- “what the heck happened, how do I fix this, we don’t want ‘bad’ moves” While I was doing that- I got consummed with it- I wasn’t present for anything else 🙁 I forgot about the dance moves after a couple reps, her first break was after a couple reps of being on the other side <sigh> and it was a scatter…. ( my go to either end a session or a break) How should I handle the crashing going forward? Don’t worry about it, show you my video and we go from there OR something else??? I also got wrapped up in Sunnie looking at me, is that ok or should she be looking forward? (this got stuck in my head too because it was a discussion at our lesson,teaching it, labeling it, I know we did alot of this way back when she was itty bitty!) Meanwhile at the lesson she was focused forward every.single.time. LOL! 😀
Good Morning Tracy! Thank you! 🙂
If you take big leaps in the process and it works, we call it fast tracking not rushing 😂🤣 So it was worth it to try and overall it went really well!
LOVE this!!
Last night we took a whirl at it again focusing on staying closer until she shows me further is ‘ok’. I don’t know what happened, she was a little cray cray, a little unfocused, not sure if she was tired (ha) adolescent (6 mo old today) or what! 😀 I purposely didn’t go out and train right after I got hoem from work, trying to mix it up a bit. So Sunnie first had some shenanigans going on with Kelsie, exploring in the yard. Near the end of the session I thought maybe she had to pee, so we took care of that but when we resumed she was still a bit all over so I ended the session. The barrel crash at the very beginning threw me for a loop, more like Yikes & wanted to process but I couldn’t that quick lol! I kept most of the times she left in the video, edited out the longer ones, but you can see when she left.
