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Ok great! She’s already kind of ok with Rebecca and Paige. She sort of likes Laura and she actually likes Katelyn. Chris is going to be learning to run Combo and she wasn’t worried at all working with Chris out with Combo last time.
Today we went to a new park and tried some things. I was proud of her for not having to roll all the way back to flat Wallboard. Typically, she wants to not try when she is stressed, so I wasn’t sure how a new park would go. I left in a part around 18 seconds that I would usually cut, but usually when we get about 2 jumps away she seems to go into this mode like she doesn’t think there’s anything up there. I don’t know what else to do when it’s just me?
Is she coming down far enough out from the wallboard?
I was also concerned about her hyper extending her back when she decided she could single stride. Is there something we can do to minimize this? I have long back worries.
My current plan for working this with other dogs is to have her work next to Combo and keep it fun for her for the rest of the year, roughly 8 practices. She said Combo brings all the good vibes. Combo is going to be working on running for someone else, so it’s a good chance for him to do that too. Then after that, maybe she will have built up enough value for the building being fun to branch out? It’s just so demoralizing for her to shut down at practice every other time. What do you think?I guess snorkel thinks the jumps are for tall dogs only.
Snorkel – 2 strides + slant + ball
I think she’s getting nice and high and parallel to the ground now but she’s still coming off wide more than half the time. She’s like “oh, I can just jump all the way to the end of that triangle box. That’s fine.”Snorkel- 1 stride + slant board + ball
Here we are mixing it up again because of our lack of concepts of a stay cue.
Last week we had an incident where the board moved a bunch underneath her so we are working on regaining confidence that the board is safe. I released her from front feet at 4′. I thought she had a couple that looked really nice. Front feet land around the sides of the ball, grab the ball before the back feet hit, back feet pointing somewhat down to push off, and nice rotation through the core. She does have a tendency to go wide/not push off as much. Is this just a small dog thing or something to work on?Here’s Snorkel’s 2 jump recall featuring a helper since she doesn’t have concepts of a stay. Also we are back at the school soccer field because she hates all the people at practice. We are also still working on commiting from the side.
Fwiw, she’s like 12 inches and I noticed she started singling once she got a little bit of speed. Does it look whacky?Snorkel is way more behind on jumping than on box work 👀
Snorkel higher prop + prop further away
Is this high and far enough? This one the ball is about the same place as our box (14 inches from the floor iirc). She definitely thought “woah. That’s higher and further and I can’t do it.” for a minute.
Here is what we have come off with since last time. I can’t see her repositioning her feet as much and we got the ball commitment. She seems to be coming off wide and I’m not sure if she’s coming off more up + out for a tiny dog stride or if she’s just powering down like her medium size siblings.
She’s kind of all over the place and it can be hard to amp her up- too even keeled!
I might have some success if we play tug before trying to do the slant board. I can try that to see if she gets jazzed up.
Sometimes she seems afraid of the prop (especially if she sees me moving stuff around), sometimes she seems ball obsessed, sometimes she’s like “we have never done this before and I have no idea what you want.”
I think practice has been scary for her with people moving stuff around during her turn or suspicious new props. She has livened up a little.Snorkel – target mat + incline
She says it is very difficult to do the feet and the ball at once. How do we clean up resetting her left front foot every time?We started working on ball to hand. So far only my right hand exists, but it’s a start. I’ve done colleen’s “hold your balls class” before so I would think next steps are targeting left hand, targeting my hand with my back facing toward her, etc.
I am curious on how to bridge the gap for a dog that is like 3 feet shorter than my hand though. Any ideas?
How does this look? It seemed like she was calling off the ball, so I’m not sure if my timing was good. Also, there’s not much space to run so I don’t know if it is encouraging her to go fast.
Snorkel’s mouth is back to full use, so we are catching up on our tugging homework. This one was hard. I guess I don’t teach my dogs any self control.
Things we struggled with:
– going after everything that moved
– remembering what we were doing after the leash stopped the lack of self control
– thinking there would be snacks on the ground when I said “good girl”Anything we can do to make this less full of errors?
