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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I will try the one rep with the wobble board and cato tippy plank. I am assuming just do one or the other? Would I do it every couple days or daily? The good news is he still loves my bigger teeter type board. As the weather gets better I can go outside with my actual teeter. It has a chain to adjust to the ground.

For the cones. Would 28 inches be ok? Has anyone used those collapsible ones? I was going to buy those for another fitness exercise for that older dogs. My vet suggested them for rear independent leg lifts.

How do you use the fresh pet as reward? I had thought about freezing some in my larger dot pans.

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Hi Tracy
Today we worked on back up and some Shpile. Lol love that word btw. Dublin seems to be having issues with things like my tip board and wobble board all of a sudden. It seemed to happen after we used them in my one in person class. Thinking it is the noise more than motion. I tried the tippy board this time and not sure I should have.

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. I will try this for sure. Heck I need chocolate just to start my taxes 😂

For moments when he is caught in a distraction, to start the pattern game you can move him away, show a good cookie (put it on his nose to help break through the challenge he is having), then toss it. It might feel like bit of lure but it completely designed to help him out in moments where he might not know what to do. (I mean, I would personally love it if someone put a chocolate chip cookie on my nose to help redirect me when I am freaking over doing my taxes hahahaha)

Here in this edition of Supersized, the games are released every 2 weeks so you are stuck with me for another 12 weeks!!

Yay!! Happy to have you.not sure how I mixed that up 🤣. I got bad news last night and the funding for the work is pushing my start to the beginning of May. Your reply here made that bad news more tolerable for sure. Thrilled to be working with you for another 12 weeks 🤗

Rocking horses:I am so happy to hear your feedback. I felt good about that game and he seemed to catch on so quickly. Then again we have seen he like to wrap 🤣. For taking it outside I will really have to weigh those down. Would switching to cones be option or are we wanting to keep with bigger items due to his age and size?

So for tossed treats, will his kibble bounce less and not need chewing? If the kibble will still be unpredictable, we can go with a stay and either the toy or the pumpkin treats (or any treat since it is not being thrown)

I have switched his food off of kibble since we had so much trouble with his stomach. I can try some other treats too if you want me to go back and forth with the stay and toss. I will definitely work the stay with a catch. He seems to like that. He doesn’t seem to be a dog that gets overly excited with a start. His release isn’t terribly explosive lol. Should I move on to next steps or toy on ground for him?

But he was tugging like a beast 🙂 so I guess his mouth doesn’t hurt too much or he just really loves tugging (or both!)

I think he likes to tug. Later after this I played fetch with new harder toy. He didn’t want to pick it up

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I thought he was doing really well in class too. I will for sure have her toss the toy next time and try the pattern game when things like that happen. So do I just try to get his focus for a minute then start in? Guess I am not sure on how I interrupt him.

Fun to see the next games. Sad that these are the end of Max 1. Will you be doing two soon? I saw 3 in an email and on FB. I have really enjoyed the class. I don’t think I had mentioned I was laid off right before it started and this has made my time off so much more enjoyable. I was supposed to start new job today but they pushed it out to next Monday. The good news is I have more time this week to play the last games with Dublin.

Today we tried the Rocking horse game which I thought went really well and also the strike a pose concept transfer. That was more challenging. 1st I had issues trying to figure how to set up and video for you. Sorry not the best. I also found the cookie toss harder. Dublin is eating those pumpkin treats and they were not breaking well 🙄. I tried one last set with a stay and toy.overall I thought it went ok but know I need to work on some things. I noticed I kept pointing my feet wrong so will have to fix that too. Afterwards I played a little longer and found one of is teeth is very loose. Poor pup can’t win with food or toys today.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I will work on that. I did try a stay outside the ring before class and he didn’t do as well. Thinking I need to work the stays in more locations a little too. Sorry no video of that.

Yesterday was in person class. We tried some tunnel work and pattern game. You will love his accidental wing wrap. Already starting with my handling errors 🙄. At the end he was a little unsure about cart in the ring.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. For the stay with toy should I click or not use clicker for that anymore either? And I assume I don’t move yet. Just maybe count in head to 2 or 3 then increase duration?
RC would the next step be adding prop target?

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. I will look to see what I have.
I am having a hard time with posting. The site keeps erroring out. Finally got it to stop I think by closing and reopening.
Today I did two sessions. Debated not posting part since my head wasn’t showing 🥲. We did some alternate RC, combos, rotated sends and some stats

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Thanks Tracy. Any chance you have a picture of an example of it raised? I am not sure I have anything as big as that mat. I do have feet for my box to raise it off the ground. I have large running dog walk mats that I can raise up easily.

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Hi Tracy
I tried the mat with the toys. Afterwords I realized the mat was closer than you had suggested. Hopefully I got the basics down. I think we have Dublins tummy worked out better which is good since he lost one tooth during this tug 😮

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Hi Tracy
Thanks!

When the instructor is talking, you can kneel and hold his collar – then re-engage when she is done. He kind of mentally wandered in that moment

lol kneeling and getting up isn’t easy for me 😂. I have been wondering about stating peekaboo with him. I do that with Brighton or at least try to remember to do it. That way I have him between my legs and give cookie to keep focus. Would that also be an option?

For the running contacts with the toy. I was getting mentally confused on how to do it with two toys? I am probably overthinking it. So do I toss toy when he gets in box and then use 2nd toy if he doesn’t bring back to me to play?

For the parallel path do I try more lateral next time?

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Hi Tracy

Thanks. A lot of this feeling good so glad I am doing most of it right.
Tonight we had class. I did the pattern game and the parallel path with the wing. I didn’t edit so sorry it is a little long. We did do some toy play also which I didn’t include.

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Hi Tracy
Thanks. He seems a little better today but still is issue with his tummy. The pumpkin treats seem to work ok.

I will try the parallel path with wings for sure. I have a smaller narrow wing I could use in the basement too. Should I try that? I thought he caught onto this exercise really quickly. I will be curious how it works with more space.

Rear crosses. I think I get what you mean. I tried a couple more today to show you. I knew this would be a harder one for us thus why I picked it to start on sooner. Mentally for me in addition to him. I walked this without him a few times yesterday before I even added him. Sure my husband thinks I am goofy walking around the family room next to that sectional pretending to do a RC 🤣

Running contacts. I think I get how with the toy. I will try it and show you.

Today we did the Concept Transfer 2: Rotated Sends, more rear crosses and also went back to the tandem turn.

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Hi Tracy
We did another short session later today with the running contacts games.

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Hi Tracy
Today we tried the transfer concept 1 parallel path and rear crosses. I think he picked up the parallel path well. The RC I question if I was just going off on a few.

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Thanks Tracy. Looking over the games for week 5. Other than the retrieve can we use toy for them or should we do food 1st. Sad to say Dublin is having some more tummy troubles.

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