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>>I left out all the reps where my ball throwing on the Go was embarrassing
Bwahahahahaha I feel that!
The Go reps at the beginning were really good! And the toy throws were great 🙂 It looks like the value is currently more on turning, so you can throw sooner: as soon as he looks at the first jump, throw and keep running 🙂
On the wrap – you pushed in a little towards his line at :10 so he curved away before setting up the turn. I think the push in was a product of indicating the takeoff spot with your dog-side arm and leg at :11… so you can tighten his line by continuing to face the wrap jump and decelerating facing it and rotating as he passes you (not need to step to takeoff) – that will get a tight line and also getting you outta there sooner 🙂
The other thing that will happen without pressuring into his line as you step to takeoff on a wrap is that he will move away more easily when when you do want him to – at :15 and :20 when you wanted the backside cue – he was unconvinced for a few steps, because the pressure is similar enough, so you had to hold position and be really convincing LOL! So the change of line on the wrap (moving to the wing and not stepping in) should help him see the difference when you do pressure in to the backside 🙂>>Anyway, Mags is in full standing heat, Sly has barely eaten in 3 days and won’t take a treat, not even last night’s pork chop and there hasn’t been much sleep in the house for a couple of nights. Wish us luck and we’ll see you in a few days.>>
Ah, I feel this too! I have 2 intact males and 2 intact females… and both females are due to come into season at some point soon. Eeek! As annoying as it was when Voodoo was young (he is 7 now), it has helped his ability to focus at trials now that USDAA and UKI allow bitches in season! I imagine Contraband will have the same reaction as Sly when Hot Sauce and Elektra are in season. So, I am sending you thoughts of EXTRA peace during this holiday season! If I lived closer, Sly could come hang out with the boys here so he could have a break and so you can sleep 🙂
Tracy
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Thanks for posting these! I definitely see him driving up that teeter without seeming to hesitate at the tip! YESSSSSS 🙂 And on the bang game – he is doing well too but I don’t think he is a fan of it when you drag him over into position LOL!!!! So for that – prop up the board on the other side of it so it is an inch off the ground and that way you don’t have to hold it – so you can get him into position by tugging or hand touching.
The other thing I noticed is that he is wanting to leave you to start the game – and since we don’t want to tell him he is wrong to drive to the teeter and I agree that you don’t want him to scare himself… as you go out to get ready, bring a crate so you can start him in the crate, or have him sit on the table that is nearby – so you can get sorted out, then you an release him from the crate or table to the teeter when you are ready 🙂 And maybe block off access with wings so he can’t get on it without you LOL!
And if he gets slippery and gets on it before you are ready, go with it and whip out the big rewards, especially if it was more tip or movement than expected 🙂
Great job here!
TracyHi! I hope the blizzard is over and you are headed into a SHORT winter!!!
The countermotion is going well! When you get a chance to do this again, a couple of ideas for you –
He seemed fast and happy on all elements where he could chase your line and drive to you. And he seemed to think that the sends behind you and countermotion was stuuuupid LOL! And he was not as speedy on those because he prefers to chase you and not leave you. So, mix in rewards thrown back past the wing as you are leaving, so he loves to leave you as much as he loves to chase you. I also tuck in a manners minder behind a wing sometimes to have a high value reward for leaving me 🙂On the race tracks, you can also run super close to the wings, so you have more room to make the decel and transitions to the wraps in and out of them. He did a great job with all of his commitments, particularly on the racetracks into the wraps! Running closer to the wings can also give him opportunity to drive ahead of you on those!
His motion override game is looking great, he was lovely with the snappy sit while you were jogging!!! Yay!!!!
Great job here! Have a great holiday!
TracyHi!
>>For the next live seminar everyone can run with a 16oz bottle of water and the person with the most left at the end Wins lol!
Because I am a weirdo, we have done this at seminars – most recently at the live Crazy Commitment seminars on Zoom, it was SOOO funny!
>>Although if it was a glass of wine I would be way more careful not to arm fling 🤣
YESSSSS but we need to hone the skill first on a low value beverage like water so when we go to the high value one like wine, there is less chance of spilling it LOL!!!
>>Well once we get plowed out since we are in the middle of a blizzard.
Fingers crossed for a short winter!!! Stay safe!
TracyHi! The blinds here looked really good! Your blind at :04 and :18 were both really timely and she had great turns on that wing.
I think her questions about the wing at :06 and :21 were more about you position – by not being able to run, you ended up blocking the line a little so it looked like the tunnel was next (she didn’t really see the wing). So, you can position yourself very close to the middle wing so she sees the far wing after the blind. The other option here is to position yourself very close to the middle wing and then do a 2nd bind to get her into the gap between wings 2 and 3 – so she will go to wing 1 on your right arm, for example, then you do a blind to get her past 2 and then another blind to get her back on your right arm – so she goes around the far side of the wing and exits facing the tunnel. Let me know if that makes sense 🙂
Great job! Have a great holiday!Tracy
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These were great! Your running line was spot on – she did give you a look or two of “what the heck??” LOL! So as she turns back to the wing and you move up the line, you can toss the reward behind you, to help her maintain her speed as she does the countermotion – then you can add even more speed!
And the reward behind you when you do the blinds will be even more important, because the connection break when you look forwrad to start the blind is hard for the pups to ignore.Nice work!
TracyHi! This also looked really good!
>>e. I really wish the ground was clear – this would be so much fun for both of us with the ability to do more running. I would also place the jumps farther apart on good footing>>
You can do this with the bars on the ground or locked into the 4″ cup, so she can work concepts without jumping – in the snow, she is changed her mechanics and slipping a bit, so it is better to just let her run through and not have to jump. That can allow you to add more distance between the jumps and tunnels too! You probably can’t go faster because of the snow, but you can keep working earlier! However, I think your timing was really nice on these and you were leaving early! She was driving forward nicely on the go! The timing of your rotation on the FC wrap was great, you were rotated and gone up the next line before she got tot he wrap jump, while staying connected. Same on the blind – rotated and gone but also connected, before she got all the way around the entry wing. And the RC looked good too! So, since you can’t sprint right now, you can keep pushing the boundaries of how early you can turn and leave 🙂
Great job!
TracyHi!
>> I think it’s good for her to have to pay attention to what I’m cuing, and not just take anything she wants.
This is totally true!! The presence of a tunnel does not always mean to go take the tunnel LOL!
I think I see the moment you were talking about, at :28 – it might have been a tunnel-looking moment, but also you were blocking the path to the wing a bit so she couldn’t see it and was probably trying to find a line. So, be sure she can see the wing more clearly as you move away.
A friend of mine posted something on Facebook that rang true for those folks who are playing in the snow: since we can’t go faster, we can go *sooner*! Ha! So since you can’t run full out in the snow… you can do the deceleration and then rotation sooner, so that you can move away from the wing sooner on these! When the grass is green, you can run faster and be sooner LOL! But for now, just walk and see how earlier you can send, rotate and leave! Her commitment looks really good here, so if the snow stays soft, you can try it!
Great job 🙂
THi!
>>We are working on moving around. She also has a raised plank. With the round wobble board there isn’t a clear “on and off” and she comes off sideways. I have some landscape fencing to give her a correct on and off.>>
Perfect on all of these – the landscape fence can help keep her straight while you move all around 🙂 I also will use a manners minder on 2o2o training, so no matter what I do, the dog uses that to help her to stay straight and focus forward (rather than curl in 🙂 )
On the wing video:
>> I did it as a lap turn send because she didn’t seem to be getting it. Also thinking my Chest and feet might not have been clear to her.
She did really well! It might just have been figuring out which side you wanted her to be on – this game is the very end of a FC, so the pup goes around the outside of the wing (putting the wing between you and her, as if going over a jump bar). So when you stepped back and she did that, it was all good (on the reps at :10, :20, :23, and 1:38 for example) – and that will allow you to leave earlier and earlier. You had her come between you and the wing (lap turn) and that is also a useful skill, it just requires a slightly different & earlier transition as you rotate to bring her in between you and the wing.
>> I really happy she worked it out and stayed with me!
Yes! She was totally engaged! And even on the reps you were changing where you sent her, you stayed super connected so she was perfectly happy to keep trying.
Great job!!
TracyHi! She did a great job here!! Yay! Right up on the box, totally confident. Happy dance! So… what else do you have to do more with? A couple of discs are good, or if you have a box with a low edge that she can get in. If you have a tall engouh chair, you can also work on getting her to go under the legs! I like to teach goat games to include getting on something, getting in something, and going under something. Perfect for a blizzard! Hope you didn’t get too much snow 🙂
>> And then we just did the back and forth with the toy a little and showed off a little with a “High Five”. Fun!
Yay! Fun stuff!!!! She is doing really well with all of this.
>> And yea, I threw the treat while I switched and that worked better too. I noticed that in one of your next video’s.
Yes – you can use a treat toss to help her get off the thing, then a little toy play, then back to the shaping. This will both keep her in a high state of arousal and continue the easy going back and forth from toys to food.
>>Hmm…I think I need to be a little quieter when she is offering the behaviors? Why do I always do that? Get too loud when she is thinking. >>
Yes – when she needs to think bout something and offer a precision behavior, be quiet 🙂 Chew gum! LOL!! Then you can be loud and talkative when you are playing with the toy.
Great job!
TracyHi! It was fine to do this with movement only and add sound later on – she did great! I give you a massive high 5 for how FAST you were in the transitions: tug- cookie toss – wobbly thing in – reward – toss cookie – wobbly thing out – AMAZING! So fast and it made for a really efficient, high success session. She did not seem to have any trouble with the movement – nice! One way you can add more movement to it is to put a tennis ball in a sock and tape or glue the sock to the bottom of the mat or a board. It adds more motion!
I think for something like this, where she can be a little wild and make it wobble, it was fine for you to be higher energy and talk to her. And the toy will take on more value when you are running around, so no worries about her wanting food a little more in this situation. Great job here! Be safe in the blizzard!
TracySo totally agree!! And now that we can easily look at things in slow motion or play them repeatedly… the advances in training and handling have been amazing!!!
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Hi! It should be visible as Lesson 5 (2nd from the bottom) in the Week 4 Games Package, between the Wing Wrap Foundation Part 3 and the recording from last night. All of the back end things say it is visible, but let me know if it is not there.
Thanks!Tracy
Hi Donna, welcome and congrats on getting your pup!!!!
>>We are auditing and starting late because Indy (BC) just arrived on Thursday at 8 weeks old. We have been working on the PreGame tasks since she arrived along with numerous other puppy skills. We have done the Prop value game almost every day and it is improving every session. Initially she was way too busy just exploring everything. As she is becoming more comfortable in her new surroundings her ability to associate cause and effect is starting to increase. >>
Perfect! The first couple of weeks are basically all about developing that ‘training’ relationship with the puppy – you are figuring out what she needs, she is figuring out what it is all about 🙂 Then it gets easier and fun!
>> I hope it helps diminish the puppy biting!
OMG those sharp puppy teeth! I redirect a lot, onto things like toys and away from my flesh LOL!
>>I plan on watching those videos one more time to make sure I am doing them correctly. Then we will move on to some week 1 tasks.>>
Great! Keep me posted, I am looking forward to updates 🙂
Tracy
