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Here’s our rocking horse!!
I’ve been trying to get him out more fequently when there’s people still in the building. I have been coming inside with pattern games regardless of if we are alone or not bc he’s been beelining to and into the building since it’s now the best place on earth. So this was after all that. Came in on leash tugged but then Heather was cleaning the crate and life got hard. So I kept at the tugging since we weren’t working and he loves to tug. Not sure if that was ok.SERPs are in the works. I screw up thinking he really needs to touch and I wait. But then again Chase is very meticulous so he likely will continue to touch lol.
Lap turns – I worked on the hands but I also went back and just stood still and turned and he had a hard time. This is our 5th session and it felt pretty good!
Rotated sends- I do not know why or what I was trying to accomplish mid way when I like touched him or held his chin? No idea but it definitely made his questions what he was supposed to do and stalled out. It was early. I hadn’t showered. That the excuse I’m using!
Working all the things this week because I don’t want to just do the thing and move on to the next even tho I’m falling way behind! Please tell me there’s a break week coming up! Lol
– can I go back to ask about something we talked a few week ago- the restraint. I have done the recall game 3 times now. I always include someone he loves ( yesterday he picked one of his loves and wouldn’t come to me. It was funny…not funny…). Not sure I’m actually doing it right. We stand in a circle all give the good and the next person calls… he’s doing fine but the one person who’s done it the last two times says he’s still biting food hard. His body language is softer but clearly it’s a lot. Should I be doing something different?
I tried again with help of a friend.
Here’s what I know- if I lock knees dog on right he can do it but I’ll fall over. We do all things tricks on the right- middle leg weave circle etc and that’s probably not helping. Doing on left went well and switching to right seemed better.
Our jump: I think I needed to move with him vs being ahead on the first reps before we took play break? Also I have to be careful on timing of a get it. He’s a weird little man and he very much understands do the actual thing then get the cookie. When I tried to mark him Looking at it and do it earlier before actually taking it he left to go get his cookie on that side…
So my only question is and I had it the last time I was thinking about it this my head how slow do I need to turn? Is there a too slow to maintain connection where I should go back rebuild the decel? Not sure we ever really nailed it
This didn’t seem to go as planned lol
The turns are ok? He had to poop so maybe that was why it seemed like pain drying
I got brave and tried rear crosses today. I failed on them with both Chata and Julee. Of course Chase was like hold my beer 😂. We had trouble finding orange cheese… and I didn’t really know how to use the mat ( tho when I practiced a mat it didn’t help much ) but I enjoyed playing this with him!!
Didn’t even think to toss back I’m so used to dogs running off with their toys lol.
This was way more fun and easy then I thought it would be
Gosh I just forgot to post all the things.
Sits are our happy place. I love training them. Most times my dogs have amazing stays. Chata sort of traumatized me but chase is having a blast and I only
Play these games. Have not asked for sits under any pressure and won’t ask at clinics. Which brings me to a restraint issue. He had a preference to restraint and Christine is his go to. At the seminar last weekend he freaked out when Soshanna took him and he was fine with her until that moment. I felt awful!!! Christine took over but hoping we can help him with this.
Our handling sandwich is work in process but it’s getting there!!
Props- to answer the question from last post, I spliced it together so the video looked as an all in one. I went back to sends and it went alright until I did just…one..more. Sigh.
Turn and burn. I am sort of splicing it together. We took a break so I haven’t done commitment much in terms of leaving earlier so I wanted to just work close and pair the word. Plus I was thinking about how he wasn’t sure when to go and I wondered if adding a word would help. It seemed too. Certainly there’s mechanics I need to clean up? Also I swear I didn’t know it was so long training!!
Tina
Ok our handling Sammie did not go well lol! But he’s cute and he tolerates me. I did two sessions about an hour or two apart
Here is the SSC framework- I was a jerk and dropped the toy off screen initially and went to work not even thinking he would have to deal with the novel object and chase cookies facing the toy. He did really good. I stopped when I realized and reset. What interested me was that second set he literally was like oh hi fan! How long you been there.
I’m doing my prop parrallel/sneds/ rears. The parallel went amazing ! I’m avoiding the sends bc of the issue I had initially.. thoughts?
Folding in focus forward
This was our first session. He did better at home. Thought toy would be easier. It wasn’t lolBacking up we haven’t practiced In a few weeks. I thought he figured it out fairly quick in a new place. He’s all legs again!
Practicing our toy races with a novel neutral ( we only have done this once)
I almost lost a finger on the done when he launched as I tossed the toy. I didn’t see that coming lol!Props- so I have a love hate relationships with them apparently. We are still having a hard time. I’ve tried a few different ways to motivate. I physically am ackward most times. He’s actually pretty good with forward but no good things are happening beyond that. Here’s some sessions that show what most are like. I actually put it away for a week. Chata loved this skill so much. It was so fun, julee and Chase not so much so it must be me sigh…
Turn and burn-
I’ve done the wings a few different ways so we are here, happy with it but I see that he’s swinging wide initially not sure why
