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As I’m trucking through the course, I’m getting to the find my face game: would this one seem appropriate to skip for now? Wink wink. I understand the concept but generally she already comes at me and has eyes for me..
I have an arms issue 😂. It’s not her it’s me!!!
Tunnel threadle- I should have an arm out. It’s not really…
Threadle barrel- I have not trained any dogs to do a threadle wrap so… I don’t know if I want an arm ( you had asked this on the flat work too) I think I should? You tell me!The tunnels: I see I’m rotated a lot to her, shouldn’t I be more feet forward? Also I’m almost to the entry she’s gonna take so not sure if I’m too far up. I’ve never actually trained it this way!!
Also I’m not tossing toys or fodd bc we have a massive KC outbreak here and it’s making training suck but I don’t have space at home. Lotus ball with barrel was not ideal.
Also: she did her jump up thing and clipped me in the cheek! Member how we tossed frisbee and it was HIgHLY rewarding? When I toss frisbees she had a hard time the next couple training sessions to know we aren’t doing that and she got a little over stim when I took the toy for the first “out” and thought she was either getting a frisbee throw or working….
Revisiting our pattern games with people and slices. Some moments of this is hard. Over all seemed ok. Had to adjust tugging when it was to hard to throwing. Also learned the game of toss the frisbee over rides it all. Faith was dead to her when I was just throwing rollers lol.
Did you know they make Gouda in pre cut cubes? Cheese is one of julee highest and Gouda ( that’s how I know about the cubes) and that’s what I used big chucks too. I tried the frisbee. Really never thought she would say not to it. I mean you have seen her with the frisbee!
– she was either on Leash or left to her own. There was a crate but trainer had just taken her dog from that crate and put in car. We have a massive KC outbreak here and I wasn’t comfortable putting her in there.
Undecided if I’ll go back. It was an ackward situation but I wanted to get julee out bc she needs it
I shouldn’t have trained today. It was a horrible day of mean girls but we still had lots of success I just was a bit distracted. Took me a full minute to realize I wasn’t calling julee name out of the tunnel. Sigh.
Also you probably will notice she was off camera more and didn’t come when I called: I truly believe it’s that whole rehearsal creates rehearsal.
I finally got on dirt yesterday and I just keep replaying the crap training on my part. Julee went to a new place. Never seen dirt. Didn’t know the person. I was managing her but pattern games were hard and she slipped my hand and – almost cracked the person in the nose. Everything you and I talked about already and I felt terrible. Julee felt it immediately and was nervous around the trainer for the rest of the time.She couldn’t tug so all I had was a lotus type food toy but not the ball and it just got caked with dirt and she had a hard time getting the cheese just all mechanical snit show… and she thought the dirt was a place to sniff. She worked when we asked but there was no crates and it was very hard for me to keep her with me while th person was talking so she sniffed and sniffed and today.. when we got to FF she sniffed and sniffed
Callling a reset on things and staying home for a day or two but here’s our tunnel whammy 🙂
Tunnel threadle- I think I was supposed to be moving? Also funny not funny : julee between the leg is huddle. Never ever thought it would sound like … tunnel. Until it did. Sigh.
More backsides. I enjoyed the session because it wasn’t perfect. I don’t know why I’m in this mind that it had to be perfect and she’s never going to make an error. But she does and we handle it.
Should I move the collection drill to the barrel or wait for a few more sessions?
We bought foam ones as I don’t like the potential slip on the pvc but the foam one presents a different issue. I have stair tread tape I use for my fitness equipment that I’ll add to those for sure
Somehow I have fallen like 3 weeks behind!!!
Here’s our collection head turn
And our backside slice. I need to get some sticky stuff for the bumps. First time really using them and I don’t want them to move like they did!
I do find habits are forming so dog on right she almost goes to set up knowing I’ll be taking her collar. I think that will be ok. I don’t foresee any issues with the routine and she likes it.
I will work on building the skills to get better distance based on your suggestions and I’ll try to get thr frisbee in the right spot. I was thinking so hard bc of the stay that is living on the edge and the toy control and then my feet …
Secretly had hoped you did comment as many near me need to hear it. LOL Especially those with big dogs getting ready to pit them in the ring at 15 months which means they did all the training things before they was done growing!!!!
Continue to build on our rocking horses: I had some bobbles along the way lol
Beginning threadles.
We took a short break and had x rays done because I’ve had some concerns about her rear end development. All good but she is still growing and will be for a while!
Props question: I’m getting no where lol. It’s the counter motion and if I toss food she just starts running forward. Can I put a cookie on it like 2 times? Even I hate doing that but I have not attempted any prop stuff beyond sends and a few parallel lines.
Initially I moved away and did some pattern games and she regrouped fairly quick. The person was continuing to encourage her which was making me need pattern games lol. Julee left me to go run and jump off her basically so I didn’t bring her to the person per se when she started to let the hackles down.
It’s on record big time bc I don’t want that nonsense back in my life lol!
And yes I had no food on me for Chata. I showed her where her cookies were and we left them to do some tricks and cues back to get her food.
So I had the opportunity for both dogs to work some of this. Julee with a new person and then Chata doing the remote reinforcement with just some tricks and the person…. Julee lost it. Like the person she hasn’t seen since a puppy and before we even thought about training she was on full stranger danger mode. She did recover and then was bouncing all over the person but it was conflicting not I adore you human. So I waited to attempt working her. I did eventually try some short cookie recalls as far from the person as I could and she was good. One look when the person spoke. The person was very sweet but didn’t take directions well to just exist so I had to be on like I never have before. Julee was successful. Tugging was good. Session was super super short and I’ll prob let this sit for a bit until I determine what’s going on in the bc brain this week.
Chata threw me bc the session was high high success. Good foods she was offering the tricks and wanting to do stuff. Kept it to 4 reps but she did take off to pick pocket the human on the third. ( forth rep was just a recover super easy rep). The person had walked toward us so their movement made her leave. Anyway just sharing that Chata moment and I’ll keep working her and maybe try the cookie recalls too
We did our self control slice correctly this week using cookie recalls. Other than her tugging harder she did fine from what I could gather.
