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Helloooooo! And welcome to you, Fever and Callie!
I think you will find this a really fun progression, since he already has an understanding of it and value too. We will really emphasize the angles of entry – if you have 2x2s, I suggest doing that part specifically for the collection to enter because you can reward the entry so quickly (also in the channels, I put the Manners Minder at pole 3 to get that started, it helps immediately. And Miss Callie can join in for the ‘stay in all 12’ games which we will be doing with some proofing too LOL! I am excited to see you here!
TracyHi!
>>if my sides or clock is backwards let me know 🙂>>
Yes! Your side and your clock looked great! Great job working the angles! Nice mix of hard ones and easy ones.
Question – does the pet tutor beep? It sounds like you are clicking then triggering the PT, it will be easier if you only need to do one. Even if the PT is a quiet click, it will work nicely 🙂 It is fine to click and have the PT remote and the cookies for now, but it will be hard when you start running – I try to only have one thing because I drop things all the time or click something by accident haha!!
He did well here, it is definitely the harder side for him! I suggest angling the poles more open on this side – it is a hard entry! The first pole was at noon here, you can try it more at 1 o’clock and the 2nd pole at 7 o’clock (relative to the PT at 6 o’clock. The dogs all have a harder side and an easier side… the other side is easier for him and this side is harder (my Elektra was the exact same way – one side was straight and the other side was angled open for 2 sessions, then her harder side ‘caught up’ to where the easier side was).
Great job with the happy oopsies – you can call him right back after an oopsie, chat him up, so he doesn’t spend too much time asking the Pet Tutor where his cookie is LOL!
He was definitely figuring out the really hard angles: 3:26 was a big moment! What a hard entry! So was 4:00! and 4:17! Wow! He is a smartie, those are hard entries! So I can see that he is going to figure out quickly, so angling the poles on that side will help him get it faster with a higher rate of success.
Great job!
TracyHello and welcome!
Great session, he is a rockstar! He got the idea immediately. Yay! Because he is so clever about it, you can mix more angles in during each session. You got really good angles on the right side sends here, he was fabulous, so you can also go to the other side and do some left side sends too, to keep working around the clock. He found the hard entries brilliantly here! If the next session with the left side sends goes as well as this session did, you can totally angle the poles for the session after that.
He was offering the weaves on the way back to you after the MM reward. You can reward on the way back because it is a correct offer and we will sometimes want him to weave towards you. If you don’t want him to take them on the way back, you can call him around them. I couldn’t see if he was getting rewarded or not when he got back to you 🙂 And you can use the reward (or the ‘come here’ cookie as a line up cookie too: he is super keen to go offer the weaves, so the line up cookies will help you get him turned and his butt lined up before you send him for the next rep. He was SO funny with the MM, being so patient while waiting for the treats when it took a little longer! Ha!Great job here, he is off to a fabulous start!!!! Looking forward to more 🙂
TracyHi!
>>2×2 in the video the dogs can enter from either sides, right shoulder and left shoulder into the first pole, the entries for weaves are they using the left shoulder to find get into the first pole? Will they get confused if I allow the dogs to enter the 2×2 with both left and right side of the dog? Not the handler on the right or left side, but the dog.>>
Do you mean in the very first video when the poles are at 3 and 9 o’clock? They won’t get confused – it is a value building game with the easiest possible entry. It is such an easy entry that technically the left shoulder is entering correctly, but it is so easy it doesn’t even seem like that. Then, usually within just a session or two, you can go to the angled poles – pole 1 is at 2 o’clock and pole 2 is at 8 o’clock. At that point, it is very clear to the dog that is it the left shoulder on pole 1, right shoulder on pole 2 entry.
Plus, on all of these, the placement of reinforcement really clarifies what the entry is (manners minder or reward target).
Let me know if that makes sense!
TracyGood morning!
He is doing really well here! One thing to add for the next step – angle the plank a little more so the bottom of it is either touching the ground or just above the ground. At the horizontal angle here, he was shifting his weight forward to his shoulders to be correct so angling it will allow him to get on his rear more.On the first video, backing up: He was really sorting out how to use his hind end independently, good boy! It helped him when you were lower in front. And I think the angled plank will be easier to get on too – if he still wants to back up to the side on the angled plank, you can start him closer to it so his back feet are practically touching the board. Or, you can use the long jump boards to create a channel so it is easy to back up and hard to curl to the side.
On the 2nd video – Good boy with the 2o2o! He did run through a couple of times when you were really running, but that is fine – you dialed it back to ‘mostly running’ and the was fine with that. We can gradually build back up to having you blast past. The angled plank will make it easier for him to weight shift back and almost slide into position – you can reward him lower to get his head lower too, that will help weight shift: try to get all rewards right between his paws as close to the ground as possible. The toy throws are good for that, and you can also toss a cookie to his paws. When you go back to reward him, he will happily try to assist in the cookie delivery by raising his head to meet your cookie hand – but you can still lower the cookie to his paws. Then he will just anticipate the lower reward and keep his head down. The lower his head, the more the weight shift, the faster he will run across the board.
Great job here! I am looking forward to beginning to combine some of these game!
Tracy
Good morning!
I think he is really loving this game LOL! The opposition reflex was great, he had no worries and only went faster. Running past was indeed a bit too hard, we will visit that when we add end position challenges – I think because his frame of reference is all running on the planks right now from the RDW training, we will definitely be sure to work the stopped contact with you running past so he knows the difference.
On this game, he had no concerns about the little bit of extra noise without the mat. So, time to get creative about adding tip – if you can lower the little bench, that would be ideal! Or do you have something a tiny bit lower?
Great job here! Looking forward to wobble board fun!>>Would you be able to email me the details for signing up to the weave course with the discount for doing two courses when you can? >>
I will do that math and send an invoice through paypal to your email. I will get that done in a few minutes 🙂Tracy
Good morning!
All of the games here look really good!
He is a man on a mission on the mountain climbers, I think you could have done cartwheels behind him and he still would have driven up the board. And it was also so nice of him to do the down while waiting for you to come back 🙂 His performance was consistent throughout the session, with all the different challenges – he just kept driving up the board. Good boy!!!
You can add a little more tip now 🙂 If you think the noise is something that is bothersome for him – I draped a little towel over the metal of the teach it (under the target plate) so it was not as noisy but as you mentioned he doesn’t seem to care about the shake, rattle or roll of the board at all!Bang game – he is off to a good start here too! To get a bit more leap right into position, you can have him start a little more forward so you are both right at the very end of the board, so he jumps on right at the end rather than at the top of the yellow. Because we are not asking for any choice on end position for now, get the reward in as quickly as possible before he even ha a chance to look at you – you can be moving the reward in as he is leaping on so your hand is there before he even makes a decision about where to look. He was getting faster and faster each time, it was fun to see!
I think when he was on your left, it was fine to reward with the opposite arm but on your right, feeing with your left was curling him towards you a little so you can try rewarding with the dog-side arm and see if that helps keep him straighter. Also, he was faster on your right, so the momentum might have caused him to need to work a little harder to get his hind end on the board (which he did, good boy!)On your teeter-table setup:
Nice rattley whippy teeter board on the downhill game! He didn’t care – so far he is pretty impervious to any noise or motion. That is SO NICE! Adding drop was easy for him too. On this set up, you can switch it around to take it to the next step – the table can be on the landing side and the teach can be on the top – so he gets more downhill feeling – you can start the teach it higher and have him go down to the table, then lower the teach it for more tip. And you can put the MM on the table for when you add in the various challenges – so far, he seems to have zero questions about the challenges, which makes me do a big happy dance!Great job here!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! He was one happy dude on this game! The back and forth looks really good, happy and fast. So…. now we go to the next step of only downhill 🙂 Starting him at the higher end (I think that is the teach it on that side), only go to the table and add in the challenges – you move with him slowly, you go faster, you lead out (have him stay at the top of have Kevin hold him :)) and recall him, you send him ahead, etc. You can also put the MM on the table or a bowl with a cookie – start with him at the top and run and since the reward is on the table, you can keep running and do crosses and dance moves, etc 🙂
If he is happy for a couple of sessions of that… add some more tip! I think the teach it will be easier to adjust for a half inch or so of the tip, the table is probably hard to adjust.
Great job! Keep me posted, of course 🙂
Tracy
Yay, it worked! I see what you are saying about going totally to the end of the board. I think she is running up it on her forehand, so when it moves she is stopping a bit early – if we can get her to run up it and then get very comfy weight shifting into her rear – she will drive further across it. So the uphill and down hill games are going to help, and also the adjunct weight shift behaviors will help too. More coming soon that will get even more specific with the weight shifting. Have fun! Can’t wait to see more 🙂
TracyGood morning! This is going to be fun!
So far, I think the dogs will pick this all up easily so the contact training will be more “involved” and hopefully the weaves will be more straightforward. And being on a different rotation was deliberate so that none of us lost our mind 🙂>>Maybe his weave cue will have to be “Tracy! Tracy! Tracy>>
OMG that made me almost spit my coffee out lol
>>Training and editing videos for three online classes is crazy
If your sessions were relatively straightforward, you don’t need to edit – just slap them up online and I can scroll through the resets and stuff. Editing takes *forever* LOL!!!
>>And I can’t even begin to imagine the challenges this creates for you!!)>>
Time management, 4 dogs working as demo dogs so no one gets over-worked, lots of coffee and many prayers to the weather gods haha! I am actually a few weeks ahead in the filming just so it can be progressive and I don’t go too nuts LOL!
On the video – he is off to a great start! You can add you interim cue for the sends (mine somehow is sounding like a space laser noise) so he knows when to start. With the poles at 3 and 6 like they were here – add motion now, he seemed super fine with the sending. And I know I posted the threadle side entries as a separate game, but I bet you can mix them in here too.
If motion goes well… angle the poles after that. I think it will be fine!
In these early 2×2 stages, you can probably add motion in to the same session as the sends while the poles are at easy angles. Then his response will guide you as to how quickly you can move through the rest.
Great job here!!!! Looking forward to watching him learn!
TracyGood morning! Really nice start here!!
He was on your right side for these reps when he was on the 11, 10, 9, 8, etc side of the clock. That is fine because it is the threadle side entry (where he turns away) and he did well with finding the poles. But also be sure to get him on your left side to line up for that side of the clock, because that is the challenge he will see very commonly on course. Cookie bribes work beautifully to get him on your other side if he is used to working mainly on your right – my dogs prefer to be on my left so I just lure them with a treat to get them on my right 🙂 The threadle entry side is actually harder so I am confident he will find the entries easy when you start him on your left. You invoked the 2 failure rule at about the 7 oclock entry, good adjustment! It looks like he is really solid until you get to about 7:30 on the clock like at 1:34… and that is great! Take your time working on the really hard entries like that 7 o’clock and also when you tried it from 6 o’clock – it is possible that it will be easier if you start him on your left for those entries so he sends forward to it more rather than send/turn away. But those entries are not as important for now – I am really happy with his other entries!
at 1:34 he got it more like 8 oclockAt 2:34 you switched to other side of poles (for the 1 o’clock, 2 o’clock etc entries) with him onyour right, and he did well! I think you only did one rep on that side – so for your next session, start with him on your right (the send side) and work around the noon, 1, 2, 3 o’clock entries and see how he does. Great job here! He is off to a fast start!!! (The invoice is coming, I wanted to watch videos first :))
Tracy
They both have strengths and weaknesses so I am going to work both! I think channels might get slightly better independence with less training.
Hello and welcome!!! You totally have a working spot! I am looking forward to seeing the amazing FizzLin 🙂
Have fun!
Tracy
