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Good Morning! Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Threadle fun this morning with a lotus ball. Since I use her kibble I thought I would try the LB to keep the kibble pieces in one spot lol!
I kept in one of the play sessions in the video because I’m always happy to get help with toy play when she isn’t so keen on it after a food session 😀 I chose the lotus ball tug to get her interest in some food play lol & so we weren’t doing too many reps of the threadle without some play. Any suggestions on my toy play? 😀
My mechanics got a little wonky when she was on my left, so I ended up just standing still for the U turn. I ended before I got crazy & wanting a perfect turn! 😀
I probably could have ditched to LB and tried using 2 hands as you suggested above, but I forgot – smh lol! I didn’t want to do too many reps either. It’s so fun & easy to keep going!
Thank you Tracy! 🙂 Hope you had a wonderful Easter! 🙂 I will try these 2 suggestions above for Rocking Horse & Strike a Pose -sounds fun- for outside fun! Today is super windy (worried my tablet will fall down again!) & my family goes back home, so we’ll see how the day goes! 😀
This morning we played with threadle wrap foundations – small space exercise for the win! 😀 You’re right, it looks easier than it is! I am really excited to learn this handling option from the ground up. When me & my adult dog were taught this it wasn’t broken down like this & maybe it’s different with an older dog?! Dunno. In any case, Sunnie is learning from the ground up and I know this kid (& me!) will become proficient at it, eventually! Did I mention how much I LOVE this course?! 😀 Anyway, sorry about the little backstory lol!
Here is our ‘intro’ with 360 circles. her left circles seemed ‘easier’ which is her harder turn. Right side we got a couple Middles. I got this too when I added the cookie toss, you will see in the next video. What can I do to make that picture clearer for her? Maybe I should start saying Side? Also, what should I do when she does go into Middle- reward or reset her some how without it becoming a reward? In my mind if I cued it – unintentionally- shouldn’t I reward her? Feels like what came first the chicken or the egg? LOL!
Next we tried the U shape turn & toss with me stationary 🙂 Some mechanics to wotk out and how to handle when Middle happens 😀
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
She seemed to be really targeting the prop on the get out and not waiting on the cookie throw. Super!!
Yes! not like previous sessions! I think switching the cookie arm was the ticket!
She is shifting her leads away to get to the prop and that’s exactly what we want.
COOL! Thank you for pointing that out 🙂 Yes! I will take this outside. I think it will be fun to see her really Get Out, in increments of course 😀
Tonight we went back to the Rocking Horse. I lost her at to the birds, you’ll see @ :13 us walking back from the distraction. To get her back focused on me I said Get It and did a couple throws of the back & forth game, but I really need something better than kibbel for those times! She needs to see it & make it worth her while, no? I moved the barrel out a little bit after a couple reps at the start of the session and used our verbal wrap cues 🙂
Next up was Strike a Pose with a lotus ball. She had a hard time when I placed it on the ground. After some failures I ended up just throwing it. In her defence I haven’t used a lotus ball as a dead toy, honestly only introduced it a while back as to what it was! I realized this after the session was over what had happened. Next time we can try a bowl, but that one position when they are right next to it is a hard one- good goal to work towards tho’!
Oh good! I was hoping you would stay with us awhile longer!! 😀
Quick morning session before the company was awake. I was a bit more “quiet” since I had my other 2 dogs are in crates right in the vicinity and the 13 y/o has serious FOMO 😀 This area is much smaller than downstairs, but I tried to adapt! The Get Out isn’t huge but hope it made sense to her.
This felt much better! I started Sunnie on a mat since that part of the flooring is tile, she was scurring a bit when she took off for the first couple tries. I edited that part out since you couldn’t see her anyway lol! My marker words got a bit jumbled – “Good” is I deliver food to you! But then quickly changed my words 😀 Fun session even if it was a bit squishy 🙂
Thank you Tracy! I will try your suggestion having cookies in the dog side arm.
Will you be offering Max Pup 2 again when this course ends? 🙂
Good Morning!
This was yesterday’s session. Too much craziness going on yesterday with family arriving to sit down LOL 😀
You can let her hit the prop then throw the treat after she hits it.
I tried doing this. And tried staying ahead of her too, but sometimes I was ‘waiting’ for her since she was looking for the kibbles I threw. I did use CB for the “prop reward” Then I tried the other side which was harder I think for me LOL Some mechanics to work out, thankful I have you for that! 🙂 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Another thing to consider as she enters adolescence is that if you have a particularly intense period of training or activity in general, giving her a day or two off of anything formal or structured is great for resilience. Wandering and sniffing, romping in the yard… all of that is a great way for her nervous system to regulate and reset
Thank you for not only giving me feedback on my videos, but also giving me a heads up on what’s coming up – age wise – and what to do in this stage of life. This is not the first time you educated me on Sunnie’s behavior- so Thank You!! 😀 We have company coming soon from Germany, my niece, her husband and 7 y/o daughter. Our week will be a little out of the norm, so I will be going light on the training 🙂
Get Out looks easier in your video than it felt this morning LOL! The video is a little long, but I included the beginning reps of no movement & then moved on to movement. I started out with kibble but then swtiched the charlie bears. The handfull of kibble I was tossing became a scavenger hunt lol!
I feel like I was mushing every thing together. Moving, tossing and saying Get out all at once smh! Sunnie had a little difficulty switching from Get Out to just staying at my side. It just felt all messy to me! Sunnie liked ‘getting out’ the girl loves movement and if the cookies are flying even better 😀Tomorrow is our last nice day before a week of rain so I think we’ll up the ante as you suggested & put a bowl on the ground for strike a pose & get in a few reps of parallel path- those 2 exercises need Room! 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂 for being so patient with me with these RC’s 😀 I see what you mean, just DOING it now LOL! Left turn is harder for me to get my arm back up! I guess left turns are both of our weaker side! 😀
I can’t wait until it’s daylight at 6:00 am so we can take the Max Pup stuff outside in the morning too 🙂 We had an awesome session tonight. I wasn’t nervous about Sunnie taking off on me. Been working one on one with her in the yard before I let her play with the big dogs. Took me a bit to figure out the better routine. Cheese stick for the win! 🙂
First up was Strike a Pose- so much FUN!! I trialed a sit stay (first time outdoors!) & was ready to abort it & go with a cookie toss the moment it didn’t work. You will see I did when I switched sides. You will see me measuring an arms length in the beginning too LOL! I’m using a rolled up towel for a jump bump.
Next up was Rocking Horse wing wrap 😀 I rewarded generously with this one- a mix of cheese stick & kibble. At :40 sec I had cookies in my hand so I distracted her a little 😀 About half way thru I used my verbal wrap cues – hope that was OK!
Then we did a quick game of parallel path commitment. Last week when we played this for the first time she got distracted by a flying leaf, tonight she was IN the game! However after watching my video I see why a clicker would have been better than me just tossing cheese for her Get It, along with my movement or non movememt! She looked at me alot, my mechanics need to be better- eeek! 🙁
I really loved your lecture on Resilience Game: Decompression & Completing the Stress Cycle. During our training session I’ll end an exercise with a scatter and often give Sunnie a break to just wander in the room. Sometimes we play a little fetch or personal play and then lately I have been ending the training session with a snuffle ball. 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Ok we tried again this morning 😛 I had time to look at the video in slow mo.
Started with a few straight warm ups. The onto RC’s! This time I used my area rug as a distance guide lol!
Right side – is she turning the correct way because she is looking at my hand reaching for the pocket? When she breaks on her own (she did this on both sides) was I correct and not following thru & setting her up again?
Left side – I can see I am still late, is she’s not ‘driving’ ahead enough? I was also thinking am I creating too much emphasis on my hands by showing her they are empty after I set her up? I was thinking – should I try this with a dead food toy instead? Like a tree hugger, that will give me time to get up there & cross while she’s eating or is that cheating on my part? LOL!
I need to give this a rest, but I want to feel what is right too! 😛
Ok we tried RC empty hands 🙂
We did a few straight ones. Still sticky. I think it may have been helpful to say Get It to send her to the prop in the entire session?!
Right side we started to get in the groove, but the left we are still struggling. I think I’m still late getting the cross in? I can’t seem to get there any sooner 😛 Also, in later reps I started looking at her , she looked at me & then I cued the prop. Is this the correct way to do this?
Thank you for your observations – SO helpful to learn! Especially on those stays for the strike a pose game!
I thought we had the groove for RC until I added the prop! I’m not sure what I am doing to cause her to turn the other way. I did try to problem solve, used a cookie, didn’t use a cookie & then removed the prop at the very end. I know it’s me, but I can’t figure it out 😀
Good Morning! Thank you Tracy! 🙂
How is her belly today, post-string-cheese?
Not terrible, a little soft. I think I’ll try chicken next 😀
In the new outdoor areas, you might need to have a really long crazy toy and get her chasing it as you swing it around: think of making the toy into an insane bunny for her to chase 🙂
Love this analogy! You have helped me learn how to play with toys with your descriptions of what to use & how to use them 🙂
For post breakfast this morning we played with the RC.game. I may have went a little long but the lecture said use alot of cookies LOL! and we were having FUN! It was magical watching her follow my lead 🙂 I did try this last night but I tossed the cookie way too far ahead so I shortened it up and it was much clearer picture for Sunnie!
We also revisited Stike a Pose 🙂 started with rewarding from my hand & cookie toss, then added the bowl (we’re using the “DISH” for other stuff now 🙂 ) and a Stay. The first time we did Strike a Pose Sunnie wanted to go thru my legs instead of a HT because at that time I was teaching her middle too. Check her out now ( I made sure I looked at my hand -like you suggested!) no question at all! HT also has some history too now! I was trying to line her up with middle when I was using the bowl, but now she’s mixing up left turn (which she can now do on a verbal 🙂 ) I also had some breaks in her stay, most likely because we haven’t really worked on middle and stay together? I started saying Wait, that seemend to help. I’m saying Wait because that’s what I have been saying for IYC- waiting in her crate until release, at the deck gate, etc… Ok to use that in “agility stay” contexts? Also, going back to the Stay game and adding more distance & duration too? This was fun going back to this game and upping the ante!
Good Morning! Thank you Tracy! 🙂
How is her belly today, post-string-cheese?
Not terrible, a little soft. I think I’ll try chicken next 😀
In the new outdoor areas, you might need to have a really long crazy toy and get her chasing it as you swing it around: think of making the toy into an insane bunny for her to chase 🙂
Love this analogy! You have helped me learn how to play with toys with your descriptions of what to use & how to use them 🙂
For post breakfast this morning we played with the RC.game. I may have went a little long but the lecture said use alot of cookies LOL! and we were having FUN! It was magical watching her follow my lead 🙂 I did try this last night but I tossed the cookie way too far ahead so I shortened it up and it was much clearer picture for Sunnie!
We also revisited Stike a Pose 🙂 started with rewarding from my hand & cookie toss, then added the bowl (we’re using the “DISH” for other stuff now 🙂 ) and a Stay. The first time we did Strike a Pose Sunnie wanted to go thru my legs instead of a HT because at that time I was teaching her middle too. Check her out now ( I made sure I looked at my hand -like you suggested!) no question at all! HT also has some history too now! I was trying to line her up with middle when I was using the bowl, but now she’s mixing up left turn (which she can now do on a verbal 🙂 ) I also had some breaks in her stay, most likely because we haven’t really worked on middle and stay together? I started saying Wait, that seemend to help. I’m saying Wait because that’s what I have been saying for IYC- waiting in her crate until release, at the deck gate, etc… Ok to use that in “agility stay” contexts? Also, going back to the Stay game and adding more distance & duration too? This was fun going back to this game and upping the ante!
The nerdier we get, the better we understand how to train our pups. It is great for all of us!
YES!! 🙂
Thank you for the feedback 🙂
Yes – short session, tiny pieces mixed in with food I know they can digest easily.I did 2 brave things tonight LOL! Took Sunnie off the property for some training AND used sting cheese 😀 Figured I better have something better than kibble or charlie bears for this excursion!
We warmed up with the Resilience Game! First without a distraction and then with. I kept it short because I wanted success and I was a wee bit nervous too LOL! As distracted as she gets when it’s time to potty in the backyard, I thought she did pretty good here! This area is behind the library in town. Cars were starting to come in as we were leaving thankfully.
After our warmup we tried Parallel Path. I used a rolled up beach towel as you suggested 🙂 After some crazy reps on the one side, I decided to try the other, which worked out much better. Any idea why? Or was she just getting into the groove by then? String cheese for the win- she could find it! I did have a tug in my pocket which I tried to engage with her after this session, no beuno so we just walked around a little bit by the playground 🙂
