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We are supposed to get rain the next few days so I did the BC barrels. Reese still struggles to send if I have a toy in my hand. She leaps up to grab it. Then, gets distracted by the hackberries. What exercise can I do to help her leave a toy in my hand alone? She’s still target the junction of the toy and my hand in general. Biting the bottom of the toy just doesn’t occur to her.
This went reasonably well, but she got tired. Too many reps. Sprite had a turn before I repeated the last 2. She just lost interest so we stopped.
I think there’s a typo in your response. Did you mean the bumps were easy for her? It was definitely harder to place her feet in the left turn. I agree she liked this game a lot! I’ll try to be more mindful that she’s actually lined up before I send her. It’s a bad habit of mine that comes back to bite me.
We tried find my face. I started outside, but that environment was too hard. So, we moved indoors.
I have treat huggers and lotus balls. Either might work. Tomorrow is lawn day so some of the leaves will be picked up. Unfortunately, the city only dumped half of my leaves trash can this week. Sigh.
We tried the Minny pinny. Ginger needs to stop her bad habit of sending before Reese is actually parallel to me. I’m not sure why I’m so bad at working on line ups! She liked this game. Towards the end I got a clue to stop her toy on the line to prevent the leap up to grab it. She nailed me once.
Hi Tracy,
So….Reese is still not sure about the parallel path if I just walk. I had to be ahead and jog to get her to take the jump. The treat was a chunk of cheese, but she still had trouble finding it even though I was in the hackberry lite section of the yard. What more can I do to get her to go ahead of me to the jump?
So basically I need to be more exciting? It’s so opposite of Sprite where I need to calm down. We shall figure it out. But, she doesn’t run many places except trying to chase a squirrel!
We tried the threadle wraps again. I’m very confused about my arms and I’m bending over to get her attention which isn’t functional while running. My feet were not correct when she chose the “wrong” side. It’s hard in a small cramped space with entertainment center as well as coffee table pressure.
She’s walking through this.
Hi Tracy,
I’m not sure what you mean by she’s not driving into it. That’s Reese’s personality in general. So, do you want more arousal first?
Here’s volume dial with food. She’s just not a crazy dog at this point.
I’m playing with pivots into a line up. Line ups are the bane of my existence. You can tell she’s more comfortable coming into my left side versus my right side. She’s usually walked on the left side.
It’s a good start though. Only our second session of asking this question.
Guess who did three threadle wraps in class last night? Yes, I find it hard to set my feet and be far enough off the jump to give her room to come in and turn. I’ll try to be more consistent with my hands. You are correct about the decel. I tend to run past things.
Yes, the yummy hackberries. We have about another month before they are gone.
I tried skin rolling Reese and didn’t find anything.
Here’s heating the porridge. I used a toy as I feel she needs to come up more. Should I try food only next time? We don’t have a ton of tricks. Working on your version of baby bear which I call dancing. She likes to jump up so why not make it a trick?
The threadle wrap is my worst cue with Sprite. I think I started with two arms, but she struggled. Then, I took a class and tried the dog side arm down low. That helped her a bit, but she didn’t always see it. So, I’m not consistent. I’ll keep playing with it.
I do use an off side arm for the tunnel threadle. Reese was having trouble flipping away to the right. She grabbed a few hackberry snacks along the way. But, I’m getting leaping, turnung the wrong way and generally not understanding to flip away into the tunnel. She did better turnung left.
Previously she was a definitely right turn girl. So, I’m not sure why it’s harder now.
We also did some reverse retrieves. You can’t see the end. Sometimes she brought it to me and sometimes she bypassed me, but came back. MUCH better. I on.y had the one toy as I decided to try it outside after filming the tunnel. Sprite had a turn on the advanced tunnel threadle in between before the retrieve practice. This tunnel is pretty short.
Hi Yracy,
Too wet for tunnels at the moment. We tried the threadle wrap. I’m unsure, and therefore inconsistent, about which hand to use to indicate the turn. How does this differ from tandem turn hands?
She’s usually a righty, but left seemed easier today. Probably me!
I do have agility videos, but there will be barking dogs. So, I’ll hold off on that for a few days. Bark free walk today! Yay!
I used toys that are usually out and a bag of treats for my slice. The high value toys will be used later.
Then, I tried to clean up the remote toy reward mechanics. Still some leaping and she’s meh about tugging. Clearly not as high today.
Leaping up is becoming an issue. You’ll see in our remote reinforcement video she’s leaping if I run or she’s too excited. I definitely want to work on this now. She’s got an open mouth and I’m not liking where this might lead. Do you think it’s frustration, arousal, confusion or just impulse regulation?
We also did the Sh**pile with unstable equipment. I’ll leave the backside for now. We could get more lateral distance on the parallel path game.
Also, which slice would you recommend? I have Sprite behind the gate usually. She does like to bark at dogs. Do you think low level barking dogs while we play a game would be helpful? She’s having a pretty barky day today. In person class Friday with lots of barking dogs, Halloween doorbell last night and then today lots of dogs on our walk. I literally had to pick her up and carry her about three houses. My food was gone, neighbor chatting while her beagle kept barking at Reese. She’s reacting back and I couldn’t distract her since my rewards were gone. Sigh..
That makes sense. Thank you!
I decided to do three training things today so I don’t stay too long on any one item. Rocking horse went better. The rep where she was leaping up is because I did have food in that hand at the start of the rep. That went better overall. I just did the three reps.
Backside is hard for Reese. I think I tried to move the line too fast and I need to keep it at position one and then maybe 1 1/2. If I tried to go up the middle she took the front side. I did one front side for balance.
Then pivot with poles. I did a few more, but she got sloppy. Hmmm. I’m sure she was tired by then. These show intentional foot placement which seems unusual for an 8 month old puppy. Go Reese!
I can definitely add more poles. But, they’d be at the same height. I think I can get 4 in that pivot item.
So, we tried the backside lecture. First, Ginger cannot walk a straight line. Ever. I’ll put a line down next time. It’s definitely not a parallel path!
Molly was out barking. I was tossing Charlee Bears, but into the land of hackberries. Reese isn’t completely chewing or swallowing them, so she chokes before grabbing the toy. She found the hackberries more exciting than this toy.
It’s a start. I do have a question if the dog runs parallel to the jump bump. What’s the fix? Asking for Ms. Sprite as that was her choice during her turn. It’s become a thing for her on backsides to go to the back but not turn and take the jump.
Traditionally she turns right much better. I think the issue in the head turn video was I started with food in my hand when she was DOL and turning right. Also, it looks like my hand was maybe too high. It should be closer to her nose I think? So, I’ll go back to step one next session.
I have a pole she can step over. Cool fitness equipment where the pole fits in the pivot disc.
Today’s plan is strike a pose part 3
The second side was harder for her. I actually changed to a higher value toy. Not sure id that was correct or I just should have stopped. Reese didn’t understand “look, look, look” as a release command.
And, some more pivots. She doesn’t really have strong value for side line ups, so I don’t think she’d pivot into my side yet.
