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Here’s a snorkel doing some jump + retrieve. We still aren’t doing any tugging after her mouth surgery for the rest of the week, but she feels good enough to eat treats and get a ball. I’m not really sure how I threw to ball to hit the edge of the mat and ricochet off like that, but here we are. She’s still a little more suspicious at the practice building than at home so we didn’t get as much distance, but this is looking way happier than the last time we tried a ball retrieve.
This is our first time shaping the jump. She interacted with it right away and I got some good distance. This was the end of our ~3 minute session so puppy brain started to come out.
PS – we are getting to these kind of rapidly because of dental surgery early next week.
I put the triangle box in front of it so she would look where she was going? Is this what you had in mind from when we were doing the target mat without the turn?
I think she’s a righty.
Snorkel – spin both directions
Should these be slower/bigger to try and get the back feet to move separately?
This one feels weird with a tiny.
Snorkel – retrieve from ground
She has a pretty natural retriever with just a touch of “I’m just going to stay over here and shred this up on my own.” She has been a lot more reserved about any kind of play at practice. I’m not really sure how to bridge the gap.
Her “here game” seems pretty strong, and she’s interested in chasing the toy, but she won’t really grab it. Also, she doesn’t really go very far from me so we didn’t get any super long ones.
Snorkel – target Mat + platform
Here’s Snorkel trying the target mat raise on some bricks and then not raised. Her hearts desire is to just stare and or jump on me and get treats, but I think we have a good start with targeting since we have been doing fitness. Do these look ok to keep going?
I do think she might be a food girl for flyball. She enjoys tugging at home and is really into it at the park but at flyball she’s been a little more sensitive and saying she wants food.
I tried to do a ball to hand touch but I think that was too advanced and maybe she would carry a tug better at this point. I’ll try that.I did try two-tug with more space yesterday before practice. It was even worse. She’s a lot less interested in tug outside of the home, so we only played super short, but she just chased me around with the tug in her mouth and never switched to the other one even with me having a lot more space to move around and act interesting. She’s also got some dental issues that maybe be bothering her. She sees the veterinary dentist this week.
Here’s how our 2-tug is coming along. There’s definitely a lot to work on. We have already had some improvement on staying on the first tug until cuing. Obviously it’s not perfect. In the video she tries to switch and forgets the first tug exists at all. We are also struggling with just hanging out with the dead tug instead of wanting to play with me.
This one is CHALLENGING for Velcro dog 2.0. On the first rep, she didn’t want to grab the tug (only chase no grab) but after that she was grabbing it. Anything you would change? Or build it up from here?
That’s weird. I don’t know how it got set to the same link. I didn’t make them on the same day. I updated it. Does it work for you now?
