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Good Morning! Thank you for getting nerdy with me- I LOVE that stuff and you explain it so I understand it 🙂
And no worries if it is a game that needs to go outside for more room – we add this to barrels soon and that will make it easier for her to see.
Tried again this morning 😀 I’ll give it a rest for now. Sunnie was having fun, it was really more for me LOL!!
The verbal is specific to the context it will be used in.
Thanks! Good to know for alot of stuff I’m doing 🙂I am lucky in that my dogs have really solid GIs and don’t get upset stomachs, but I also introduce the food in tiny quantities.
I think I just need to cut the cord & start trying new stuff! When you say small quantities, just try a few pieces of a new food items in a training session & see how the poop goes with that particular food? So silly asking this, but like I said she’s different than the others who had the typical lab iron stomach LOL!!Heading to a private agility lesson tonight in a new location – dirt arena! 😀 Send a little prayer for me!! LOL!
You can also add in tugging – that will increase arousal, which helps tune out distractions. You can use a food reward then tug, then a food reward, then tug. Or tug after every 2 or 3 treats.
Interesting! Do you mean after she goes thru the uprights & gets her cookie? Maybe I should be using cookie tosses when she gets fixated on the birds or flying leaves too? <when it’s potty time!> We went to Lowe’s today, there were moments she was fixated on a thing, she wouldn’t take cookies (I had her lunch kibble) as a lure to move her off of the object. First lab that never took cookies like that! And she is my 5th one 😀
We had an amazing tunnel session tonight 🙂 She’s flying thru the tunnel no matter where I send her from! I would have loved to show you but my phone fell 🙁 You can hear my verbals really well tho’ LOL!!
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Ah yes I see on the Tandem turn where my left hand was not visible. This morning we tried again with better arm position and no cookies in my turning hand. I don’t think she’s really seeing the prop she’s just doing the turning exercise and I see why my arm stays there the entire turn! It’s hard for me to execute the turn without following thru (making the complete circle) Hmm should I start the turn then pause & point the prop? At this point we are not calling this turn ?(or the lap anything yet right? I don’t have a word!)
Concept Transfer 2:Rotated Send – oh this was super FUN! Back in Jan we discovered Sunnie was a righty, left turns were took a bit of thinking when we were doing ‘wing wrap’ & last month with turn & burn, left side was a little ‘harder’ Look at her now! 😀 She was funny when I was trying the motions without her she jumped right in and circled the barrel lol! (not on the video) I dropped cookies on her line rather than feed from my hand – was that ok? For the right turn I used a lotus ball for the last few reps so I could throw & she could get the cookies easily – except the dang LB didn’t stay closed! I need to get the good one next time. I used this one in the beginning when teaching her the LB so it would open easy. I think she’s ready for the secure one LOL!
We did a little Beep Beep – backup for fun! I only got 1 rep out of her, it was so cute 🙂 After that I’m not sure why she didn’t understand. But in all fairness we have been working on a few other things with me facing her like that – stand by & down stay, stays with catch to name a few! Not sure if I was showing her a different picture after the 1st rep of backing up. Did I push too long trying to figure it out? Definitely not the end of the world I was just wondering what her little mind was thinking we were doing 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Changed my foot placement for Tandem turns like you suggested & used an empty turn hand – wow what a difference! Now I need to work on my arms 😛 I got stuck when I had her on my right, I’m not sure why!
Look! No snow! Now the yard is a whole new world & I don’t have a recall on this kiddo! Since we had SO much snow for so long & it was cold, I couldn’t practice recalls in the great outdoors 🙁 That’s why she’s on a long line. I don’t trust her to run off because now we chase leaves. It was especially windy today 😛 Sunnie gets SO distraced now (my other 2 labs were not like this lol) between leaves, birds, noises, she freezes in her tracks, except for the leaves that’s more like a pinball machine LOL! Anyway, here is our first outdoor training session! 😀 I warmed her up with the resilience game/pattern game. I’m using charlie bears so she can see them. Then we into parallel path commitment. She mostly stayed focused on the game until a leaf flew by 😀
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
I’m not sure what happened to our tandem turns! 😀 I’m not sure where to place the prop so it’s in her view lol! My cue arm smh 😛 I want to clean this up, but not sure how 😀 Thank you Tracy!
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
I’m not sure what happened to our tandem turns! 😀 I’m not sure where to place the prop so it’s in her view lol! My cue arm smh 😛 I want to clean this up, but not sure how 😀 Thank you Tracy!
Good morning! Throwing in another video! Lap turn with prop from this morning! 😀 We have our last puppy class tonight so I wanted to get this here for you. Tandem didn’t go so well, I was doing a post turn LOL so I stopped and watched your video again. We’ll try that another day 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
One thing to add is walking away from her forward rather than backing away
Ok! Got it! 🙂 That did look kinda awkward 😛
We gave it a Go with SSC Fold It In, way baby steps because of the bowl & keeping her from it. I think I may need to work on some IYC bowl games! She will wait (with a reminder) for anything I put in front of her- food puzzle, snuffle mat/ball, food bowl, but in this context not so much.
You mention in the lecture to use my wrap cue. Thinking of verbal cues… I want to teach her a cue for left and right wraps, can I say Check for left & Dig for right? I’ve never used these words (just had switch & tight with my previous dogs) so I want to do better this time 😀 Anyway, can these be my L & R wrap cues which is a 180 turn and then use ??? for a soft turn – anything that is not a 180? Switch I’ll use for turn away from me, but I don’t know what to say for those soft turns! 😀
Here is our Left & Right Wraps! 🙂 Thanks!
OMG what the heck?? I must have had too many tabs open LOL! But I thought checked my post afterwards- Jeeze! Sorry about that!
Here’s the proper video! 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
Stay Game without clicker – I like that better- less for me to think about! LOL! and like you said she doesn’t need it.
Question! I have been using OK as my release word for other things pretty much since day 1 – for example when she has to wait for her food puzzle, topple or if she’s waiting in her crate to come out. It didn’t occur to me until this Stay Game that I am also using OK for drive to handler- I’m rewarding her at my side. Do I need to use Break instead for the agility context or anytime I have her in a stay and she is driving towards me, which could be in a crate? I keep referring to being in a crate for 2 reasons, she’s been in the crate for a period of time & I’m allowing her out or our routine for when she comes in from pottying or play. I have a craete setup by the back door (not the one she’s in during the day) this is just there for anyone to go in. When she comes in from outside she hops in there so I toss cookies to her. Now since the stay game has been introduced to us, I say catch! But when I release her from being in there I have been saying OK and giving her a cookie. I guess 2 questions- should I say a different word like Break or do I even need to release her from the crate?
Back to the Stay Game 🙂 I added in duration, distance & used the quiet praise word Nice – she broke on “Nice”. She thought it was nice too & deserved to get paid 😀 Do you think I pushed too much with duration & distance? When I do distance (in a real space lol) should I always maintain eye contact? So like a for real start line stay, always maintain eye contact when I lead out?
Thanks! 🙂
Thank you Tracy! 🙂
We took a stab at the Stay Game – Catch & Ok. Am I understanding this correctly, the only cue we are giving the dog is the Release cue? We never say Stay (or Wait is what I have been using when she needs to wait before exiting her crate) When does the Stay cue come into the picture? Once they know it then we start saying it? Or are they learning this position (sit) means stay put until I release you?
Catch – once I got my mechanics were correct it went Ok. My mechanics meaning I was clicking before I moved (not in this video) in our first session.
Here is OK (Drive to Handler) – The first 2 reps I forgot to click, then after that Sunnie released on the clicker. I stopped after 2. I didn’t know what to do. When I release her from her crate I am sometimes in this position (drive to handler) to do a hand touch, sometimes I face her & she does a hand touch. Most of the time she gets a cookie for either the HT or “driving” to my hand. I don’t know if this carries over into this, but I thought I would mention it! 😀
Tracy we got a Beep Beep! I let this one rest for a bit until now. I wanted to see where we were at. Look at this!! 😀 I was so excited as you can see LOL! How can I fade away that down? We tried it again tonight, all I got was her wanted to down & zero back up LOL!!
Before I added the prop, we needed a warm up with tandem & lap turns 🙂
Here is our shot at tandem turn with the prop
I think I went a bit too long with the tandem turn because I got confused at one point while doing the lap turn & had to cut it short lol!
Question – for the start line game, should I use a different word for agility start line? Right now I say Wait before opening the crate door. Once I open it & she gives me eye contact I say Ok, she hops out or sometimes have her come to my side for a hand touch 🙂 Other than that she does not have a formal stay like in a sit or down outside the crate. Guess I should teach her that at some point, lol!
Good Morning! Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
First I gotta tell you about our lesson 🙂 Sunnie walked in the arena like she owned it, gazed around & walked thru the gate like it was nothing. Check out the equipment, as we got closer to a tunnel she went in by herself- she knows play tunnels from the breeder- although her technique including launching herself on it! 😀 We did some tunnel ‘handling’ which was so much fun for her & she understoof it! Then Deb held her & I did a bunch of handling (L/R sides) – all the handling we have been doing in my 10×10 space, but this time we got to run!!! She latched onto the toy-toy too! This is HUGE for me personally because all of my other dogs worked for food only. (I didn’t know how to teach toy play) Yes, I know each dog is different, in terms of toy & food play, but you gave me the tools to enhance what Sunnie already loves – now both food & toys!! THANK YOU!
Now I see what I was doing with the Tandem Turn- I wasn’t doing it at all – good to know what I was doing is “something” LOL! After the lap turns, you were doing threadle wrap foundations where she did a complete circle while you kept moving forward.
And thank you for giving me feedback on the threadle wrap 😀Here is our morning session of Tandem Turn & Lap Turn.
I stayed close to her for Tandem turn & did a lot of luring so we both could get the mechanics 🙂 When I switched sides I started to get Middle 😀 So I broke it down, just did the turn & then tried with a ‘start’ Do you have a cue word for this one? Do I need one for this?
Lap turn- I tried using a lotus ball so I could toss her cookies (kibble) and thinking this is better because all the pieces wouldn’t go everywhere. You’ll see what happened with the lotus ball. Took me a sec to figure out why she wasn’t moving, I’ve alwayd thrown the lotus ball for Get It. If I’m thinking correctly she saw it & expected me to throw it so she froze – like she does- So I switched back to food in my hand. Do you have a cue word for this one? Do I need one for this? 😀
Strike a pose with a bowl 😀 she knows her bowls from vito games! I probably should have showered her with cookies when she made the connection? Thinking it is important to imprint the behavior she figured out? Also, she was doing a drive by touch, barely touching my hand & I rewarded her for it- should I have done anything differently here?
