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Wk2 Installation Getting Started – Jump
I have a question on this one regarding timing of the reward. I used “search” and was trying to not move my hands before I throw the reward. However, the delay caused her to look at me each time versus focusing forward on the jump. I was wondering if I should say search sooner and throw the reward sooner before she looks at me?
Wk2 Installation Getting Started
Since we’d done the wing earlier and she knows that really well, I tried something different for fun.
Wk2 Application 2: Placed Reinforcement.
I started back from the begging with her on this one as I wanted to change the cue. Here’s were we are currently at after the earlier sessions.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!!!
Wk2 Application 1: Catch
https://youtu.be/b6hD6jwo3qAYes, I’ve always used the “get it” before she can take the toy from the ground in her obedience vs her dumbbell/articles. I think she would probably be confused if I changed that up on her. :).
Looking forward to the next steps :). Thanks!
Thanks for the zoom call. That was helpful and fun to see everyone in the class.
Reinforcement Procedures:
Finding and keeping her in the best arousal state at trials and tweaking that for agility, obedience and nosework. Especially once we’re in the ring.Behaviors that need more value:
Maintaining agility collection behaviors when reinforcement is outside the ring. It’s getting better, but stopped contacts, table stays and weave pole entrances are solid with toys in NFC/FEO, and maybe another run. But then as Effie says “may the odds be ever in your favor”……. 😉Wk 1 Toy Remote.
Morning Tracy, Here is where we are at with the rapid fire sessions with toys/food and the toy retrieve. I tried to remember to keep the session short :).
Thanks! Good cue for me to remember she is getting tired when she gets sticky. Time flies with her during toy play as she cracks me up. 🙂
Thanks for the feedback Tracy. Yea, I noticed I wasn’t as clean on Search and Snack with timing when I watched the video. Too much auto pilot there on my end :). I’ll work to clean that up and also figure out how to differentiate the two cues more. That makes sense.
Yes she loves the moving cookie game. 🙂
I’m not sure about the reverse. Maybe my body stance, where I was looking or just the pattern???
Here is Wk 1 Toy Games 1
Hi Tracy – Below is our first video for the food games.
i have tried a lotus ball with her. She liked the ball aspect a bit more then the food, but she will eat the food out of it. Yes we have really cool toys, but plastic bottles work for her.
I’ve been experimenting with reinforcement at trials to see what works best. For FEO/NFC I’ve been using the toy in the ring for pieces we’re working on. I’ve been using food as we get ready to run. For non FEO/NFC, she knows her toy is back at her crate and wants to tug when we come back after a run. She usually checks to make sure I’ve left it. 😉 She definitely knows where her toy is at – either on me or at the crate.
I was thinking it would be a fun change too 🙂
Reinforcement Hierarchies
1=HighestFood
1 – Steak, McDonald Hamburgers patties, Dehydrated Liver treats
2 – Chicken
3 – String Cheese
4 – Bill Jack soft treats or cut up, dog food meat rolls
5 – Kibble, other hard treatsNotes: Then for all food: chasing food is the most fun. Tossed treats back to her are next, searching for tossed treat after that and last is handing treats to her. She seems to change up more on food then toys/activities. So 2,3, and 4 can change up more depending on what she’s had a lot of lately. But #1 food stays at the top and #5 at the bottom.
Toys
1 – Jute Bite Stick/sleeve, any tug toy she can really grip into
2 – Ball on a Rope. Likes the smaller, softer balls best
3 – Soft toys like furry tugs, leather/soft leash tug, furry tugs, rubber uders, leather braided tuggs, stuffed animals, denim destuffed toys
4 – 6 ft Horse whip with a tug toy tied to it. Chase and tug all in one.
5 – Plastic water bottle that crunches, tugs and slides. Toys you put the water bottles into.
6 – Hard toys, pinecones, kongs, hard balls, fire hose sticks
7 – Incredibly small pieces of trash, those little maple leaf keys or even half of one. Pretty much anything she things you might toss her way or can hold unto to tug.Notes: I don’t think I’ve met a toy or piece of trash she hasn’t liked. Toys crank her arousal and there is that line where she gets wild eyed and over roused. So you get the sticky or auto pilot BC. She can usually still take food even at pretty high arousal levels.
Activities
1 – Swimming: She is like a little kid (totally shivering) that you can’t get out of the pool/lake and she quivers waiting for permission to get back in.
2 – Tugging: A Jute bite stick is highest, then the ball on the rope, then any other toy/item will do. Things she can bite into rate over things she can’t grip as well.
3 – Chasing a thrown toy: Toys are ranked in the order above as she then wants to tug with them. Soft frisbees come in after the ball on the rope as she likes trying to catch them. Going after dead toys is not as much fun as chasing, but still is fun.
4 – Running outruns: She loves to do the big BC outruns with her BC friends on “Run”.
5 – Snuggling/Affection: She really likes this at lower arousal levels, but at higher arousal levels it gets in her way of “doing” and is no longer a reinforcer. At higher arousal I’d substitute #5 with the actual work. She’ll stay on the agility/obedience/nosework field after we all leave and look at us.
