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I just stalked Jinka on Facebook and oh golly does she look like a good time. She is a quick little thing and looks like she enjoys doing lots of adventures. Hopefully we can get you hooked up with some nearby teams for some of the passing/racing drills. But luckily we can do majority on your own (just like how I train all my flyball dogs!).
Can you change the permission on YouTube video to be unlisted – right now it is set to private and I can’t view it. Thanks!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVED every second of this video. Textbook perfect toy play. You will clear with what you wanted her to do, you were silly and fun and engaging and thus she wanted nothing more than to exist in your bubble with her treasure. I was curious if she would chase you around if you ran away with that Wubba in her mouth and clearly she would!
“I feel like you are going to need gloves with this one” OMG that was hysterical.
Great job having the tug be low for head driving down. This was a long recall, so be sure to mix in some medium and even short recalls. The short recalls where the dogs are right behind you are great for that quick collection off the box (simulates the fast steps they need to get in for striding before the jump). When they do longer recalls they stretch more and it’s not as urgent.
She’s going to be a lot of fun. 🙂
Here Game – She is getting super snappy!! I feel like she turns left majority of the time – do you see that already in day to day living?
Change up one part of your game since you are using cookies to get distance – when you say HERE – you give the cookie to her. The idea is that immediate reward is on your person. Find me cause I have the best thing. After she gets that cookie, send her to go get the lame other cookie (you could 100% hold her and say Ready Set Go or just toss the cookie really fun like you are already doing). In this game – I could use two levels of values like a charlie bear for leaving me, and a meatball for coming back.
If you think about it like a recall off the box – the idea is to go straight to the owner – you wouldn’t toss the cookie/tug reward. You would be engaging! So it brings back in that one piece.
If you were to just walk her off leash at practice does she stick to you? Or would she take a few steps away to sniff something where you can call her off? I like to also have some of the dog’s agency built in where they 100% are making the decision to leave that person they wanted to visit or smell that was interesting.
Hey Jo!
Working on figuring out why I didn’t get a notification on this thread you made! Sorry for the delay in responding.
I didn’t use the mat for Mose because he didn’t have the foundation for it. He knew the Cato board to target before the box, but didn’t know targeting the mat for his back feet like I teach in my foundations course. I love the mat target training – I feel like it easily transitions from mat on the Cato board, to mat on the slant board, to mat on the box (I don’t do vertical wall board).
Working on that online Cato – I feel like such a juggler right now trying to squeeze 48 hours into a 24 hour day!
I’m so sorry I didn’t get a notification on this post!
Is the ball on the slant to give him a visual cue of where to place his head and his feet? And are you releasing from the similar position/place?
If you are doing hit-its and seeing inconsistency that isn’t uncommon – there are so many variables and the criteria is “get your feet up” to which it sounds like he is meeting it.
It’s so great to see another video!!
When you do another run from further back like the last one – I want you to move about 10′ back from where you were standing (might put you where jump 1/8 would be if it was in). Yumbi didn’t have enough speed while entering the jumps, had to toss in a double stride between the jumps, and was then still accelerating into the box. She had to toss in a .5 step to get closer to the box because she landed short of the box. She is thoughtful enough to fix it on the fly, but it doesn’t make for the cleanest turns.
For the clean catches and rotation off the box in those up close clips – would you have the time and ability to send a quick session of the same setup, you releasing (not the one where you stood to the side)? I want to see what she looks like with a U shaped prop setup – keep one gutter in front of the box, then place one on each side of the box parallel to the lanes on the outside edges of the boxes. So if the box loader looks down – the props make the letter U. If the reps look good you can back up and add more distance as well – that overhead view from the box loader was super helpful (sometimes the side looks great but I don’t see how wide she comes off the box). I have a theory for Yumbi I want to test – and that will decide which future homework/prop setup you have.
I like adding some spice to the tugs is bringing back that joy. I challenge you with a special one – I want you to video different play styles with the tugging and watch them back. I’m wondering if you had more play styles that will help continue the tugging relationship as well.
-Tugging and slapping and shaking around really hard and fiesty you have footage of.
-Tugging and using the finger tickles to the front of her chest (think “I’m going to get you motion”) that’s a little more teasing and less effort on her part.
-Same as the above – making sure the front feet stay on the ground.
-Tugging and having her pull the tug so it slips slowly out of your hand like she is ripping it away from you. Then you hand over hand choke back up on the tug to play and engage again – little more of a give and take on both sides.The pieces together – BRAVO!! Doesn’t it feel like fun Flyball?! She has all the pieces and now as you add in other dogs and the slant board with the ball to this picture – she will be confident because you already taught her the little pieces.
Feel free to add that prop with the cato turn work/slant work as well. I liked everything that I saw. Keep up the work and on both directions. I can’t wait to see you both in person hopefully soon.
Tugging –
I would stop asking for the tugging. GIR did a very similar thing, and we decided to stop adding pressure and just let him choose. Sometimes he had a stuffie he wanted to play with, sometimes he wanted a tug or ball, and often food was the winner. Kiki sounds very similar. I’m betting if you stop asking, she will one day ask for tugging. Make it insanely fun, but end quickly. Leave her wanting MORE (versus her saying, okay enough I’m done). I also love to have an arsenal of tugs, furry tugs, bottle, squeaky, grunting, you name it – I find the novelty can often keep a dog that isn’t intense with tugging into the game. I challenge you to have a timer on your phone/watch or a handheld one, and limit your sessions to 2.5 mins. See what she thinks of that. I average 5-6 mins for a full training session with most dogs.Kick Back – try these two alternatives and let me know if neither work for you.
1. Send to retrieve tug
2. Kiki returns so tug on the tug. 1-2 seconds of tug (fast), say YES!, give cookies.
3. Ask her to tug on her tug.1. Send to retrieve ball.
2. Kiki returns ball. 1-2 seconds tug on the ball or moment it touches your hand say YES!, give cookies.
3. Ask her to tug on her tug.Backing up – nailed it. Loved the individual steps!
Pivot – WOW on the pivot on the flat – that was really neat. The inflatable was much more of a challenge – which makes sense because inflatables add difficulty.
Bow – smooth! Looked great.
RSO – Mat – Tug = Those first two reps are TERRIFIC. She slipped on the floor when you switched directions on the lineup. I don’t know if you saw that in the video. So she stepped forward and you took it as her not listening and tried getting her back into position. But she was really upset you thought she was bad. So I would say anything with her training – you will have to be her cheerleader. Mediocre effort = low level cheerleader. A+ effort = throat sore from woohoo cheerleader. It will be so exhausting because everything will take something from you. But if you do it for a little bit – I am curious to see how it builds her up and she might be a little more eager to try and toss things at you. You have the perfect understanding of this exercise and I’m glad you let criteria slip a little after she struggled switching directions.
Mat time – I did not think this was bad. At all.
I saw her wondering a few times – but I didn’t see that as a stress response or a quit. It seemed more unclear on what was expected. And can we compliment her for how well she is driving away from you to the box. Right now she’s going a$$ over kettle at the box when she gets her ball versus decelerating and getting it cleanly – so we will keep an eye on that. I’m not overly worried about it transitioning because her mat work looks so good. The only change I could think of is maybe shorter distances for her catching you (like maybe only work from box to where jump 1/8 is) so that’s less of the environment she has to scan and move through. But honestly I was impressed with how she handled that.
