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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
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
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.
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!!!!!
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.
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 nutsI think it’s actually the focus bc we started this with her when you were here for the seminar and she did the same thing going around it. It’s like she can stay but can’t jump. 8” seems to help.
Yes I think the mark hand is good for her and will build that as part of her regular cue. I also think “break” has baggage so I liked how by saying jump each time and her getting food it seemed to release pressure. Normally doing some stays and using the break she gets MORE amped where here she seemed steady other then my ready cue which is a rev up cue and probs don’t ever need it with her. Lmao.
I’ll keep working!!
So I just combine all my trainings. She had breaks and I was working all 4 dogs on things I do know we went a little too long the last reps which is why I thought best to end on simple success for the focus.
She could not take the jump at all for any reason with it set to 16” so that’s why I dropped it to 8” and she was totally on board!!!
Using my obedience mark to bridge the gap which is working well. And her panties keep her quiet! Love being able to work stays with panties lol!
I don’t know how I forgot to post these!
She offered her start to let me know she’s ready before I asked. She does this now in a quieter setting yay!Next week I will start to incorporate the friends in the ring with some patterns
We worked the Jww course yesterday. There were only 2 other people there and I could tell Chata was more relaxed. Just enough distractions for her as we progress!
I don’t even know where Kathy was hanging but chata didn’t have any trouble with “ring crew”!
I was so good and opted to skip poles and of course she went right to them lol!
Second run opted to let her do them. She did most of them!
Rep 1
Rep 2
We did revisit this today just for training and I wanted to see how better she was with out friends there. I’d say about the same probs a little better starting. Given she took the jump lol!
All good things I can adjust for next time and I will incorporate people standing by.
The leash off cookie was a total panic moment as I need to rid the leash and I was afraid to toss it. The leash I use that’s small and I can tuck away is at camp to the leash was a challeng but sounds like I am not giving her credit and should pause 🙂
Today I did the back side and it worked better. Lol! She also stayed on her frame after a few warm up reps.
Thanks for helping me make better choices!
The plan was… do some patterns a little warm up. Get in the ring. Pattern and tricks again. I had Donna all prep pro feed at the end of the frame since that’s her harder contact and she steals targets even with treats on them.
Course plan: skip the back side in the middle and run a straight line.
Well… that snuffle mat that we have been using at the end is training must have been spotted ( in the corner by Donna) with out my knowledge and she be lined but after she checked for a hot second she did come right back. Was just hard to get going!
Both times her and I didn’t handle the wrap and the pressure of the gate at all and I was just internally focused how did I screw things up that she needed to leave early on…
She thought Donna feeding her was dumb and her poles don’t work. I did want to try them again the second time because she didn’t hit any and she got 6 that time. I think it’s only 12 pole related. She nailed 6 at league last week. Not concerned but wanted to give her another shot.What if anything can I do when something f like the snuffle mat happens? I see it as young dog stuff but maybe not?
Also I think I need to only throw food back to start bc the collar is not working
Take 2I did not see any of this skill set as stopping in the manner that I may be testing her resilience at all. There were so many mini skill sets and not much running or handling that I saw it as training or teaching moments. That’s why I stopped and fixed . I will make adjustments. but especially with the back side she does has trouble moving outward to get them and I knew taking her collar to set her wouldn’t work. I don’t have a stay and tossing a cookie could lead to a wrong set up. So that was my mentality not to fix”. But to keep it in motion at the least by resetting in motion.
The courses are getting harder for the baby dog so I may just need to take fronts or not work the skills but use my time to simply work on teamwork and resilience so I myself don’t get frustrated.
Here’s the jww pop we worked this week! This run was about 10 min after doing some Super Bowl games while Josie was running. Her ability to stick with it I felt was a hundred times better! We had some moments I wasn’t sure how to keep going but kept it as smooth as I could! Skill wise this was way above her pay grade but was awesome to be able to use some verbals to help her. She doesn’t have an “in” yet so I was able to use other cues yay!!
