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Yes, it is Dot’s first seminar and with Loretta Mueller. I am bringing my snuffle mat. Honestly, I’m not sure what we will do. I will have to bring a long line to attach the toy! Lol. We are working on the Sara Bruske games independently now in the living room with higher value toys,
Dot will NOT potty on a walk. It’s very odd behavior and a bit frustrating. I think she gets too excited by the activity and cannot relax enough to pee. I’ve tried taking her out front after rest time. She won’t go. After about 10 minutes of her pulling on the leaah and staring at the environment I give up as it feels like a battle and she needs to relax to go. The minute I take her outback she squats.
We tried hold the line. OMG…why am I not stepping? Maybe the space is too small. I’ll see if i can fix that as it seems habitual based on the oast 2 videos.
We also played treat toss and leave your sister alone!
Hi Tracy,
Yes, I had played this game at the agility field after Sprite’s lesson. Sprite was in the car. However, equipment was out. We have an agility seminar coming up this week. 1/2 day puppy on Thursday and a full day for Sprite on Saturday. I can try it there. I’ll look to see if another facility has any CPE coming out. There’s nothing local for Sprite until maybe late March to April. I don’t see traveling with Dot at this time since she can’t be loose with Sprite and won’t potty in new environments. Hopefully she will go at the seminar this week.
We tried SSC with a treat bag.
Ok, I’ll see if I can clean up the mechanics.
Today we tried the resilience game. It’s easy inside so I tried the driveway. Someone walked by which pulled her attention. But, she was able to re engage. She really gets interested in the world around her.
She’s not a big ball girl, but I haven’t tried it much either. We’ve played a little two ball game in the kitchen. When she runs off it becomes a game of chase. She’s not interested in whet I have. Sometimes a second toy might work. Independently, I’m working on a retrieve with her toys and a platform. We aren’t up to the higher value toys yet.
We tried turn and burn today. One rep I lost grip on the toy and she ran around for about 5 minutes. She wouldn’t come for cookies or me sitting down. I ultimately went inside to get another toy. The video says she dropped it as I left. It’s a work in progress.
Here’s turn and burn. I ran Sprite after the right turn and then brought Dot back for the left turn. We are struggling with the ready dance and she’s trying to jump to snag the toy out of my hand. Also, I moved the leash the wrong direction on the left turn. Oops!
The collection sandwich is challenging to get the reward in the correct hand. Still p,eying keep away with the toy part of the time. I let her run around and just sat down. Eventually she came back. But, it’s not efficient using toy rewards when playing with me isn’t rewarding to her.
I’ll try parallel path later this week again. It’s impossible to cross behind when you are ahead! Go figure.
Sprite had an agility private lesson today. Afterwards, I let Dot run the field for about 15 minutes. She was able to do the tossed treat game for eye contact. So, I’m counting that as novel exciting. It’s not on video though. She had some nice recalls and we played some hide and seek.
Here is parallel path and some sends. On occasion she was leaping over the prop and I didn’t reward. Is that correct? She was in the right line. I’ll work on leaving with the sends. At first I thought she wasn’t turnung the correct way and I was focused on that. But, she was correct in the video. I couldn’t figure out the rear cross part. I’m so ahead of her on the parallel path. I’ll rewatch the video as I tried with Sprite in the living room and she didn’t understand it either.
Dot is feeling better today, but still on a bland diet. So, limited treats. We played two toy game and she was better. It’s better, but she still wants to stay on one toy.
Later in the afternoon I took two identical toys into the backyard to play. It wasn’t filmed. She was cracking me up trying to get the black toy out of my pocket! However, I played toss the toy and she actually returned it to me several times. I was smart and didn’t push it. I only did a few and it was all very successful. It’s an N of one..but the first time she’s done this in the backyard. Yay!
Hmmm. She doesn’t always come back for the second toy. I’ll try that when she feels better. Yes, she does like lining up between my legs! You are remembering correctly!
This was yesterday when she wasn’t feeling great. Still sick today. Poor boo. Giardia cysts negative, but that’s not overly reliable. Hopefully better in a day or two on a bland diet. Plus, she’s chewing through toys and occasionally swallowing some fabric before I can catch it. I wish she liked to chew on rubber toys!
Ok, I’ll try that later.
Here is yesterday’s toy race. She was not happy when I won! It’s still taking too long to find her treat to give me a head start, so I only tried that twice. You can see toy possession is still a big thing. We are working on it. But, it still needs a ton more work. Not much value for returning to me in a large space.
I took some air out. But, after she got on the first time she seemed to avoid getting back on them all again. More air out? Maybe the nubby side fee,s weird to her?
She did better with the plank.
That makes sense!
Ok, shaping in arousal. Dot knows where her front feet are, but not the back feet! I can’t tell if she was a little worried about the wobble board. I did two different sessions.
So, I am apparently confused about which keg to use on the hold the line exercise. When she was on my right and turning left I had my non dog side leg (left” and left hand pointing to the line. On my left to turn right I picked my dog side leg (still left) but right hand. Which is correct?
She did pretty well regardless. Once the bowl was further around I think I said go. Not sure what verbal to use as “bowl” in theory means go to the bowl and she might not go around the cone. Pretty good toy and food switch today. It’s a new day with a puppy!
No…she’s definitely not ready to be free without supervision!
Today we did collar grab and she did well. Sometimes in real life she mouths me when I go to grab her collar.
Also, our second session of cone wrap with bowls. This AM we played with the toy first. But, when I put it up she did three reps and then sat and stared. I think she couldn’t transition off the toy to this game and two toys isn’t useful yet. After a little vet scare we played again in the afternoon. She’s fine! But, I used food tosses as her warm up and break. It went MUCH better.
I need to become an octopus!
This is SSC. The neutral object is a photo frame. In all fairness she came off the cot to check it out before I had released her to the game. We are still working on “place” meaning stay put until you get a release cue. But, this is the reps after I put her back and released her.
