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I 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!!
You know I’m “channel” challenged lol!! As I get along with Ella on the process I will work chata in. I don’t want to mess with her poles. They aren’t bad they just have a blimp in the training.
We did the tunnel to straight weaves today and she’s not able to collect. It was funny I split them just to work em and she went in ran by and just flew through the last set. So we slowed it down a bit and I will have to revisit speed into weaves and she was doing well with it.
Love the ideas to get 14. Will be working that. Those are places on courses even with out a layer I always hesitate not knowing if my dog will find the line so I and the dog need that!!
I think my instructor is trying to kill me. Lmao!
So so happy with this! We worked just the skill earlier today to get the tunnel layer and the tunnel send. We broke our weaves! She has lost some confidence doing higher speed into weaves. I’m also going to have her checked over to make sure she’s not sore.
So how do I get her to take 14? If I had that the next piece would have been clean. Maybe toss a toy. She sees me hauling and comes right to me.
I admit it got selfish bc I had to get three dogs trained in the hour and got greedy with just getting her done :).
I need to get better at being creative with ways to turn her bc yes I knew some of the cookies and line ups were gonna buy me something I’d didn’t want. Post turning on the one helped! Wraps and dig/check also sent her into high arousal lol.
The leash comes off before I step out. Or maybe it doesn’t. Damn it. Now I gotta figure that out lol!
Look what we can do!!
Game changer on the physical and verbal “wrong” she was soooo good this roundNew thing coming up. She’s waiting for me to cue the set up. Is it ok to ask and if she says no change the plan? I know I have to be careful with it. I can usually read her eyes if I’m too hot or what are we doing now…
So. Wow! First- I left in prob more than I should have the in between stuff but that’s more important to me right now!!
That said man I suck bu. I recovered quick!lol. The rep she was wrong my body was all boo boo! But, I caught myself before she came out of the tunnel! I decided to avoid the quiet cues or words I May accidentally use and simply go to clear things I would say to get a reward- so “get it “ was going to be the same no matter if she was correct or not and it worked!!! There was even a toy on the ground after the second jump ) not intentional. And she was all in!
Also, I had her go for a run after our first session and that seemed to really help! I did move onto the tunnel being open again bc I had done quite a few with it down and when she shot past me on the last rep with such confidence I felt she was ready.
