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Revisiting the toy race with the verbal- I can’t do the cookie and run because she will choke on the food but I feel like she’s got this pretty good?

Working hard on bringing toys back. The holly roller frisbee combo might just work!

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I try to mix up the collar vs come to side and through legs. I wasn’t focused as much to when she was saying that’s enough collar stuff for sure.

With this game how do I know when to continue to progress the bowl? I’m not sure at what point she goes into oh this is the game you go around the come to get the thing vs look at the line
( I may also be asking for a friend who is red and is struggling with FF and totally looks at the cookie bowl but will still go around the cone to get it vs be lining for the cookie itself

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Oops!!

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She did well. Hard to see what line she’s looking at so made it easier at end. Not sure she’s looking or just knows to go around…

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Can I stand bc if I’m next to her on ground she’s going to actually hand touch the hand

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I want to do fold it in but I think it will confuse her bc she already knows get it vs go around a wing verbal and ignore the toy so we are working on it in that context.

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Starting self control- I tried working on my right lol! She still gravitating to the left but seemed to handle this well.

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Awesome thanks!! She is awesome I just don’t want to put that pressure on like she has to be my agility dog but all agreed

Left- we started heeling very young so yeah she offers and gravitates to the left. She totally called me out the right side stuff 🙂

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I forgot to edit this and I may be over the week limit but if not- here’s my actual question- clearly we had errors it was actually me I was dizzy literally. I had a screaming headache all morning and foggy so this was not the right skill to do 😂😂. But I didn’t feel like with holding reward was best either. Julee is an easy dog and bc I didn’t get her for sport , I feel like her and I just well-
Screw around a lot. I don’t want to be u fair to her tho if paying her anyway is the wrong answer. In the end I was just doing circles to break it down and then I don’t even know why I kept going but I didn’t feel like we left unhappy if that makes sense.

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The toy and retrieve are my winter project lol. She likes toys. Doesn’t love toys but loves the frisbee. Only the cloth ones tho so I don’t want to use that for thr go bc she will slip on the pounce and grab.

She always brings her toys and food to the same spot. Same corner at FF. She was born with the lovely genetic piece of resource guarding. Initially humans and even more so dogs so… her first instinct is always to go hide the toy. At home she prefers to play with her bone behind the couch. So I’ve dabbled with trying to make it fun and to bring a toy to me but she’s been a bit more difficult to encourage. I can use super long toys on leashes but then she just tugs that much further away if that makes sense. Ya know most dogs grab the strap by your hand instead or the huge long toy. She grabs the tip of the end of the toy at the furthest point from the human lol. I can get her to bring a frisbee near me if I take off and run. Two toys simply do not work. I’ve tried all the combos of value on that.

I’m all for ideas as I don’t want another dog that runs off with rewards. She’s good about not stealing them if I place it but when she gets the reward she’s outta there.

Ps usually I play. This was her second round and she ran into the building and straight to the ring with eyes on me

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I am not liking my prop. It’s big enough it not easy enough for her to place her big feet.

I used really good food so she was a little stuck this session.

Here’s our advanced version of FF

Not sure you can see it but her first rep the wind blew and it startled her a bit but she recovered super fast

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Here’s our pre game. The last thing we trainee was pick things up in the mouth so there was some residual from that which made me laugh. Sorry you could not see her prop or her feet on the first round lol.

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Makes total sense!! I was looking at the chunks and not star smaller details. I reward a lot for efforts but you’re right it’s not consistent and the weaves I always reward when she gets something I know is hard effort but I don’t always pay the weaves when right- I think that’s bc she was stopping and looking for food but I need to be better about in this context or that context. So if we are doing something easy I don’t need to pay her weaves but when there’s challenges I need to pay all the things!!!

Thanks!!!!!

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I finally got my act together and set up a class for chata. Small group but she can’t expect to handle any type of league or trial if we always train alone. So we got together and I worked this course. This was so good. She did way better than I thought but still has no threshold for fixing an error.

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Week 1 courses were fine as long as I didn’t have to handle anything lmao! No video bc I accidentally did them in slow mo. It’s fine. Moving on!

Week 2 – the layering went really well but I am wondering if it’s simply because it’s a tunnel. If you say that
my handling cues match what the layer should look like yay! If she’s just zooming to a tunnel what do I do?
I don’t trust her back sides a lot so my first attempt to reward was a bit scary lol! But overall this went well!
I left all the yucky stuff in. Not gonna hide my crap dog training or frustration with the starts at this point. I can’t even hold her collar bc it makes her nuts

. https://youtu.be/hJGOMGFgTsQ?si=14rs8xye9_Wb9v_L

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