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We did out first set of exercises yesterday. Here they are:
Focus Forward: I found if he was looking forward at the toy and I said gooood softly he would cut his eyes to me. If I said ready ready he wouldn’t. Hope that’s ok.
Hand Touch: I tried to play with him, but it was 83 degrees and really humid and he was tired and hot. And with treats around he still prefers them although I can usually get him to play if I keep trying. seemed like he wasn’t going to this time, so I just tried other stuff between touches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IejY5MD1u0
Foot Target: Well, I forgot my target so I used my jumper cables. He seemed to generalize to it will. Again – had trouble with play between. I always think I should redo when it is a better time and we are doing better, but I guess I need to just show you when it isn’t really working well and get all the good advice I can get for those times. We went way longer than we should, especially with him not wanting to play and get back to being excited. As you can see in the background a big storm was headed out way and it was our last chance outdoors for a few day. will stop sooner next time.
Totally agree! I was the first time he’d seen a MM so now will work on getting him off of it now that he knows the joy of it. LOL!
I worked on a few things before leaving my poor baby at Catherine Laria’s kennel for Christmas. (first time away from mama, eek!). He loves it, btw, played with 2 other puppies his size and age yesterday and Santa is coming – will be live streamed on FB Christmas morning. But I digress… LOL!
Anyway, here’s where we are on front foot targeting. Will work in a bigger space next time. Was happy that he actually was still interested enough in the toy to not go immediately off it when I set it on the couch on the 2nd or 3rd rep and brought out the cookies. Still is more a cookie dog in these training sessions but I think we are gaining ground. Anyway, here’s targeting…
We worked on tugging up against me – he really likes this and does it on his own often.
He’s funny about a retrieve so I’m so happy to have these exercises breaking it down. He chases and will put his mouth on whatever I throw, but often will drop it when I move away or call him back, so I really like this game where he’s only needing to make a minor attempt to come toward me. I plan on playing this one a lot. 🙂
OK, I said I’d share the bravery day video once I got it. I showed the ‘course’ first then cut to Spot’s turn. The iPad was just sitting at one corner so didn’t capture all of it, but you’ll get the idea how he handles weird and unstable surfaces. She walked around with crutches too – prepping for CGC I guess. Once you get to the manners minder you can stop – that’s the last thing and it goes for a bit longer than needed. Didn’t realize my last trim didn’t go till I had downloaded to YouTube.
Submission 3 – Perch work (see other two above posted separately)
I did a few just getting on it but also tried to get back feet moving too. I see that I was trying to lure him with a treat and turned his head about as often as i used pressure. I also see it didn’t really work. LOL! Anyway, here’s the perch work first video effort. I left the play part in because when he thought there was food on the ground he didn’t want the toy. Eventually he went for it, but had to work at it. Any thoughts on that?
OK, submission 2… Goat tricks – He seemed perfectly comfortable on the couch cushion. Will move on with this one. In puppy class last week we did a ‘bravery day’ where they walked on and interacted with lots of stuff. Instructor taped it – not sure the quality, but will post here when she gets it online. She had us lure, but he seemed fine with everything. She was walking around with crutches as we did this, but no noises. Will add that too. On to a wobble board!
Will do! Thanks! I taped 3 different things – do you prefer that we just send one at a time, or just let you binge watch all 3? Since I had trouble posting before I think I’ll just do one per post and you can address them as you have time.
This one is dual training. We’ve worked on both dogs in stays and releasing 1 at a time before we started this class. Haven’t really worked it inside, so I started with a hand cue and plan to fade that as Spot seems to ‘get’ what I am asking. Anyway, here’s this one – it was long and I trimmed one rep of each dog out and Spot’s last trick time out.
I worked on Cookies in the Corner again – here’s where we are. He had been carrying around a toy and brought it in and dropped it so I just left it there – not trying for a treat distraction yet, but he seems ok with a toy there to me. Am I see that correctly? Oh – also I’ve been using white cheese so it’s easier to see.
Here’s two in a row so please see video above also. 🙂
This one is long also, but since he’s a bit slow on the uptake with the tug I kept all that in there. If you want to fast forward thru to just the reps of cookies in the corner please do. After a couple of good ones I threw a bag of treats off to the left of the screen. Anyway, here’s where we are with this…
OK, so this morning I looked and ALL the times I tried to submit finally went thru. I posted a text message saying ‘please disregard the above’ and now that isn’t showing up a few hours later. I think I”ll start a new thread and see if that makes a difference, since these seem to be going.
