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Hi Tracy
Nope didn’t edit. It was just me getting confused when he was on the right 😂. Good to know I hid it well 🤣🤣🤣
Should I move on to do next steps?

Lol poor Dublin doesn’t get not tugging. I feel bad.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. Toy play might need to wait till after my Dr follow up Thursday lol. Hand is doing well but tug pressure might hurt too much. I will work on the other things you mentioned.
Today we tried the tight turns. Not sure why I got confused for my mechanics on this one even though I watched the video a few times. That messed us up but overall I thought it went well. My in person agility instructor had commented on how tight his turns seem to be the other day. He seems to like going around things for sure lol.

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Hi Tracy
Sorry have been quiet this last week. I had Carpel tunnel surgery on my hand last Tuesday. We did little things like delayed reinforcement during the week in my family room but no videos. Today we did quick video in the basement for the delayed reinforcement. We started the new weeks games. We had done pivots before so showing where we are. I have pivoted up and down from foam pad also but have not done over a pole. We also tried strike a pose for the threadle. That was surprising in his excitement towards the MM. guess we have not used it in a few weeks so it was more challenging. Plus it had better than his kibble in it 😂. Overall I think I have the idea ok but things to work on.

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Hi Tracy
We took a few days off. Today we went back to the strike a pose concept transfer. I was going to use the dropped toy but he had trouble with the held toy for my warm up. He didn’t want to stay as well as he did before. Maybe because I had released him right away prior when I put my hand out. Overall I think session went ok. We also redid the out with me trying to do better with my eye contact. I thought it went great. What should next steps be on these? Toy on ground and maybe more distance? Was hoping to go outside but rain is interfering lol.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. Today we went outside. Mother nature seemed to create its own resilience game. The wind was blowing our glider so it squeaked and was making the umbrella cover which ripped flap. Dublin did great going past all of the oddities. He knew I had some better cookies to work though lol. We did the rocking horse game with movement and also tried the rotated sends again. Sad to say this was 2nd attempt at video for rotated sends. 1st one my stupid phone totally zoomed in for and you couldn’t see anything 😢. The better cookies and toy were a win. He was engaged well most of the time.

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Hi Tracy
For the remote reinforcement. It looks like you just had the food on that crate. In the past I have done this with treats in a container/cookie jar that I can use at trials. Is there a benefit in leaving the treats more open? I could see that as an additional challenge. My marker is the word Cookies for this but I usually say it more like COOOOOKKKIEEEEEEEs. With a very excited tone. I noticed how calmly you say it. Do you see an issue with making it more excited?

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Hi Tracy
Hope you had a nice weekend. We had a break the last couple of days without any heavy training.

He was impressive with his ability to chew and back up! It is like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach 😆 do you have a cookie that he can slurp down to make it easier?

These were new cookies. I was trying to break them down but obviously didn’t break them small enough. He is talented or driven for sure LOL.

The smaller mat is harder, of course – I think we wasn’t always getting all feet on? That seem fo be the case especially when he was going from your left to your right. You can try him again on the narrow mat and see if he can get all 4 feet on. If not, we can use a wider mat for now 😀

Yes he was not doing as well going left to right. Seems to be a pattern with him with that side of him facing me he likes to come closer to me. Should I try to stop him with all 4 on 1st? I remember doing running contact work with Brighton and that mat that we started with a couple of cones next to the mat to keep him going onto it.

I looked over the threadle game. Dublin can do left and right turns next to me on both sides of me with hand signal and verbal. Should I still start with all of the same steps or do you want to see where he is at? I don’t think he will need to stay on the earlier steps too long.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. That all really helps.
Now that I think about it I had better treats last time we were outside.

Release word go vs go ahead. Guess I didn’t think of that as much. Frisco and Brighton are such good dogs. I usually would just repeat the go as go go go and they would move ahead. Run would work for Dublin.

Today we did some backing up to a dog bed and I raised my running contact mats. Hopefully they were ok. I thought this all went great.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks.
I guess I get confused with when I need to look at him vs looking where he needs to go often.

I will make corrections to change up the release with a pause. I am assuming I should not use the same amount of time each rep so change it up. Since we have not done many from a stay I had not thought about it.

Try to get the serp hand in position separately from the release – you can extend it then quietly praise or wait a few heartbeats, then use your release verbal. I think you were saying ‘go’ but your normal release word will be more effective because ‘go’ means to go straight and we are turning him here.

my release word is go. I guess I never thought about it being an issue. To me go means move.

Since I use my phone to record I can try to set timer on my watch or maybe the Alexa device in the basement.

Today we tried the concept transfer for the rotated sends outside. Not one of our better sessions. He was very distracted with thinking there were cookies on the ground or bunny poo and afterwards I questioned when watching the video if I was sending for the wraps on the correct side.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I think he enjoys this game.
Today we did the Out and also the serp concept transfer again. I think the out went well. He did better coming with me for more reps for the out. I went too long for the serp exercise but he seemed happy. I was going to try removing the hand target when I realized how long we went. I know the toy play adds time and does make it longer but need to make sure I don’t over do it with him.

Question for retrieving. Dublin loves to retrieve his tugs but the harder items all of a sudden he is having trouble. I question if it is his teeth since he is losing more. Is it common for the to retrieve one type of toy but not others. Might be something I am doing.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. We did go outside. It was warmer than I thought it would be lol. I think it went well. I believe my lack of connection with him/looking at the cone is the cause for the miss.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. Yes this was the 1st time he wrapped those cones. Do you think I am good to move outside and further apart?

I will try those things for the back up. I figured we had issue with the planks and thought about sitting down. I went back to earlier set up to make easier since we seemed off.
No training yesterday or today since I am volunteering at my clubs agility trial.

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Thanks Tracy.

Today we tried the rocking horse with my new cones. Sorry not the best video since missing my face. Some good but then I lost him after he hit the cone.
Also tried some backing up to a different set up. It didn’t go as well. I went back to the other pads instead.

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Hi Tracy

For the out is there anything else I need to do differently to get the non out? I realized I had used his name and shouldn’t have. Tried to catch myself on other reps. I need to see if I do that with Brighton too. Using the off arm seemed different for me so I am sure I was concentrating on that too.

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Thanks Tracy
I will figure out if I want to get the cones or more pop up barrels.

Today I redid the Shpile after securing the cato tippy board more. Hopefully this is more what we want. I also did one and done on the supported wobble board. Then go out and a treat scatter. I forgot to do that straight call to me and added a little late so that was challenging for him but all my fault.

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