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Haha. I did your little experiment! She went to the closed hand.
Wow, I left I was supposed to go on a diagonal line for the RC. I’m definitely not moving on that line. We are getting rain for a few days. So, turn and burn will need to wait.
Yesterday I took Dot to the school for resilience training. It was pretty empty, but she heard some birds.
The food was NOT in my send hand. But, the other hand had a bunch of Colby jack cheese. Dot isn’t wanting to chew crunchy stuff the past few days including her kibble. I’m sure she’s teething,
Yes, the grass is wet. I’ll dig out something to put on the game case.
We tried turn and burn. Ginger is twitchy and did too many reps! She left to go eat hackberries.
I also redid RC. It still isn’t correct. I’m trying to immediately cross. But, she likes to turn right.
Haha. I’m wondering why you haven’t responded. Oops. I didn’t post anything. Hmm.
I revisited the prop with counter rotation. Dot is VERY excited about the cheese in my hand and leaping up. But, this looks better. Filmed a few parallel line and she’s still bypassing the prop. I’ll give that a day or two and try again. She did better with sends when I tossed the cheese versus using my come to hand marker.
I also filmed the RC homework. However, I’m not sure I did it right. Am I supposed to call her? Right turns do seem easier for her. I can’t toss straight apparently.
I tried the wingless. Mostly she’s just following the toy. I’m not really seeing her understanding a send. So, next steps?
Hi Tracy,
I’m not understanding the toy on the line with cookie in a bowl comment. She’ll take the toy, run all over the yard and not come back. So, I don’t want to rehearse that behavior. If I send her to the cookie, I’m assuming I’d toss the toy in the correct line as she commits.
I was using white cheese. Obviously, it was too small. She’s refusing crunchy treats these days. Might be teething?
Last night went much better. Her schedule was off as Sprite had agility class. She hung out in her car rate with a freezebone and part of dinner. Home at 10 pm. Well past bedtime. But, she’d been crated for a little over 3 hours including travel time. I let her stay up about 30-45 min then into downstairs crate. We went up stairs around 11:30. The bigger varikennel is right by my bed. She did bark within a few minutes, so I took her outside again to be sure no need to potty. She didn’t need to go. So, back upstairs to crate. She fussed a little, squeaked her toy, but fell asleep and slept all night. I gave her a little bedtime snack too. She’s growing so fast. It’s hard to know if she was hungry or just unhappy with the different crating arrangement the other night.
Here is today’s training.
Line ups are the bane of my existence. I rarely get it right!
I think last nights issue was I trued to change her crate. She’s outgrown the 209 varikennel. I thought I could just put her in the wire crate that’s in the room. However, it’s not right by my bed. My guess was that was too big of a change. So, I dug the 300 varikennel out of the garage so it’ll look similar, be in the same spot, but give her more room. Fingers crossed it goes better tonight. She’s been a good sleeper overall.
Today we did resilience in the front yard. Windy, but not much else going on. There was some delicious smell in the wood section of the driveway. We also played retrieve in the kitchen. She’s pretty good here. But, outdoors she snags the toy, runs away and has a party of one. Should I add a leash to the toy outdoors?
To clarify, if she walks BESIDE the prop I still don’t reward? If she leaps over it and doesn’t touch it, then I do reward?
Ok, I’ll work on the hands with the turns. I was feeding her for coming into me. So, I’ll try after the head turn and then with no food in the turning hand.
I do have a wingless jump or a tall cone. One of yesterday’s videos was lured around the barrel. Let me know if I should try the cone or the wingless. Do I go back to the two bowl game first if it’s a new prop?
Dot was extra cranky last night for an unknown reason. She barked in her crate on and off all night which is a first for her. Prior she has slept all night quietly. Took her out several times and she didn’t necessarily have to potty. She just couldn’t settle for some reason. So, I suspect she’ll be tired today.
It’s definitely both sends. The prop still doesn’t have much value. On the parallel path she’s walking beside it about half the time. I’m not rewarding that as she’s not touching it. Do I need to go back to the beginning? She’s just struggled with this concept from the start.
It’s similar with the barrel. I don’t think she understands she’s supposed to wrap it. Go back to two bowl game and add more distance with standing? I really feel stuck. All games build on these concepts and we don’t have them down.
I tried parallel path and turns. She got leaping thoughts with the turns. I’m assuming I need to slow down.
I’m still really struggling with sends. Thought I’d try two toys with the barrel. This went ok.
Later today I’ll try parallel path again and maybe the lap turn sends. I just can’t seem to get a send behavior at the moment. So, turn and burn and moving on will have to wait. I’m not really sure what I’m doing wrong.
As always you are so smart. It makes sense about the tug toy in the video.
I found a bunch of rubber toys. I’ll keep them by the door so there aren’t too many out. She’s interesting with potty. I can take her on a walk around the block and she won’t go on the walk. But, then I’ll take her out back after the walk and she’ll pee. Yesterday we tried a long line and she just kept chewing or trying to tug on it. It’ll work itself out. However, I don’t want to practice keep away. We do eventually have to come in. I do typically give her a chewy. Maybe, I’ll try a snuffle mat. I bought her a giant stuffed dog that she can wrestle with so it saves Sprite. She really enjoyed that this afternoon while I watched agility live stream.
Ok, I’ll see if I have some toys I don’t care about to leave outside. It’s more that she’ll grab a branch or a small piece of a chew and play keep away. That becomes worrisome as I don’t want her to swallow it. She threw up a piece of bark last night in the middle of the night. She also just doesn’t want to come in sometimes and she needs to. Potty training is slow as she won’t go when she’s outside and then wants to come in and pee in the kitchen. So, I’m taking her out constantly.
Here is back up and some resilience for today’s training.
I think the nope was because she was hot and tired from running with Sprite. I should know better…but, apparently I do not! I obviously didn’t like her clear answer to my question. She was tired and hot. So, it wasn’t a good time to ask her. It’s interesting that she did do the send to prop. But, food is more calming.
The running around is in general. She will grab something she shouldn’t have and zoom zoom all over the yard. No interest in coming to me as she knows I’ll take it out of her mouth. That’s a new keep away from the mama behavior in the past few days. She’s only 13 weeks. This does not bode well for adolescence. It’s not necessarily training related. But, she’s started to steal things she can get her mouth on and run away with it. Normal puppy behavior.
I do play with her with a soccer ball or sometimes just sit while she runs around. If she checks in I give her a treat. We went to the nursery today where she saw lots of things, goated on a hay stack, met people and kids, smelled some pumpkins , heard noises etc. I’m going out to a play tonight so it’s a chill day.
I’ll try turn and burn again maybe Monday. Tomorrow we can try backing up and maybe a resilience game.
Yes, I just found piggy in a pile of toys. She thinks it’s fabulous.
So, a few videos from yesterday. The first is baby sit stay. “OK” is my release word. I’m concerned if Sprite is “ok” and Dot is “break” I’ll mess it up. Often I use jump as the release for Sprite on course.
I tried turn and burn and got nada. Dot wouldn’t engage, wouldn’t send and wouldn’t come to me. She’s started running around the yard and doesn’t want to come in as the run ends. Also, I stupidly let her run with Sprite a few minutes before I tried to film. Epic fail and we stopped. Then, I tried the send to prop video. I had trouble with her switches sides. Not connected enough?
