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Oopsie! I got a little ahead of myself 🙂 It should be fixed now, let me know if it is not when you have a moment 🙂
Awwww, perfect boy here! He did a great job!!! Did you see him waiting on the prop when you reloaded the cookies? Gah! So adorable.
This session went really well – I think at first he was not sure when he was supposed to start, so he just started offering it. When you added the ready ready and the very very distinct step & point – he nailed it. Nice!!!! (Your ready word is very exciting, both of my pups came running over to see who was saying it LOL!)
Sideways and backwards also looked terrific – it is not easy for baby dogs but he got it nicely. The backwards required a tiny glance back at you to be sure for now, but he wears still awesome (that moment of checking in on the harder ones will go away). And his paw hits were SUPER distinct, which is great – part of the concept here is to teach the pups to do a coordinated body motion on the prop because eventually they will need to do a coordinated body motion (collection) on a jump.
He also did really well with the self-control element of leaving the cookies to go to the prop.
Because he did so well here, you can try these with a toy and tugging as the reward. Basically, the toy brings more excitement so it might be harder for him – but he is quite ready for more challenge. If it is hard, you can start closer to the prop.
Great job!!!!
TracyGood morning! Great session here!!! Yes, mission accomplished with keeping your hand low so his head stayed lower and straight, that was fabulous. I love how he finds it important to come to you so he was still chewing the treat on a lot of them LOL!! Such a good boy. I agree – his butt was swinging out a little wide when he was on your right and he was pretty darned straight when he was on your left. It was subtle though – as I was watching it, I was thinking that it would probably disappear when you added the turning. And sure enough – it did! The turns at the end looked really great – you started on the left and it was perfect and then when he was on your right, he was pretty much exactly the same as he was on your left. YESSSSS 🙂 So he might be the tiniest bit more coordinated when he is on your left or he might be showing the slightest preference to being on a right lead – but it is miniscule and overall, he is really balanced and lovely. It might have been that you did your right side first so by the time he got to your left side, he had it all figured out 🙂 Either way, no problem with his butt now becauase you can keep adding the turning in.
Great job here!!!
TracyHi! This also layers in some good self-control, because he had to leave your cookie hands to earn the cookies! In the middle section, good job pulling the cone in (or putting your hand there, the video cut for a moment) to get success when he was having a bit of a vortex of cutting between you and the cone. He was really getting the rhythm by the end of it!!! Without moving the cone away as much, try to start your next position like this and then move to sitting on something higher (or kneeling if your knees allow it) and then up to standing. It might take a couple of sessions but I think he is ready on the cone. We added a next step on this too, which can be done with you sitting just like this.
Great job!!!
TracyOK I am laughing: I was saying YUMMMMMM just as you starting saying Yummy too hahaha! The squeeze tube is great! Great job with this! Try to bring the squeeze tube over to the spoon to deliver on all the reps so he can stay there (and it will make for a quicker delivery.
The spoon has value and salience, so no need to play with it til next Tuesday (I think it is next Tuesday that we actually use it for real LOL!!)
What you can add to this is back and forth from the squeeze tube of food to a tug! Or begin with tugging in the presence of the tube – one of my goals this week is to advance tugging skills, especially in the presence of food, so we can start with the food tube. if it is too hard, you can go to something more boring 🙂Tracy
Hi! I am glad you are already playing a ton of these games with him – the process is all about variety of exposure, then revisiting it all frequently til he is full grown. Each time he grows, his feet are in a different place, so we kind of have to let him sort things out again.
He did great here! The next step on the suitcase would be to get a bigger one and teach the trick of packing himself: open it with his nose, get in, close it. It is FREAKING ADORABLE and also a really fun chain of tricks haha!!And yes, you saw that I added more goat tricks – that will be easy with variety and movement if he is confident, so you can start adding in the noise element. And did you look at “Plankrobatics”? That is a dog walk/teeter foundation where he is going to learn to really think about where his feet are and how to balance 🙂 It is how my dogs learn to go fast across the dog walk without falling off 🙂
Great job!
TracyHi again! The send to the toy is looking really good, and it helped get her comfy in the basement! Yay! You can probably let her go a little sooner – when you held a little too long, she would look back at your face or hands. So, let her go about a second after the toy lands like you did at 1:15 nd at 1:38 on the last rep 🙂
I love how she was driving ahead with speed and focus – perfect!!!!
When you are resetting between reps, you can start from wherever you were when you were tugging with her. She didn’t seem to love being moved around by the collar too much yet, so taking the collar and resetting in that spot will help her offer the collar to you, which will allow you to move her by it later on.
Head over to the course syllabus page – there is more to this game that I posted today (Toy Races) – she is totally ready for it! Great job!
TracyHi!
I agree, she needed a moment to explore the basement before being able to focus on the bag send. You can bring her down there and just play with some toys so she gets comfy being there to train and not play with the other dogs 🙂 And when sending to the prop, the toys and treats will help her focus so you can reward the sends too! (And so she doesn’t think the bag is a toy LOL!! It is really just a foot target) When you do the sending, use the arm next to her line you were, that looked good! You can also step forward with your leg (like you would be sending to a jump on course) That will help her get a lot of support so we can add more and more distance. She did really well sending to the bag – it got a little too far away towards the end, so maybe stick to distances of 2 or 3 feet for a couple of sessions, and reward with a tossed cookie on the bag when she goes to it.Great job!
TracyHi!
The spoon lick to kibble is going well! His mouth looked MUCH softer here! Yay!!The toy play is also looking good! I have some toy play ideas posted in this week’s games package , you should see it in the Course Syllabus section for some ideas on continuing to strengthen tugging 🙂
>>I think Hamilton is a cue to work for him
I was wondering if he was thinking it was a cue LOL!!!
I love it when dogs chain things that we don’t even realize we chained LOL!! Oops and yay, all at once haha!! Good boy.
The drive to handler looked great! It was very smooth when he was driving to your right side, and you were able to get lovely turns and even add speed to them. On the left side, try not to step forward as he is approaching before turning, that was causing him to go straighter than needed. He looked really nicely bendy on these!
Wrapping – you can bend to drop the cookies so they don’t go flying around 🙂 We will be eliminating the bowls and cookies soon enough 🙂
I think the upright might be a little too far away, he had a few too many times moving between you and the upright or thinking about it 🙂 So for now, bring it in a few inches so it just past the end of your toes 🙂 There is more to this game being added today too!Prop – NICE with the MM added, I really liked this session!! I think you sends were nice and clear. Don’t let him self-send LOL! Dogs are so clever about figuring out the puzzle with the MM and then want to do it without us haha!! So, after each MM click, you can have him come to you for engagement or a cookie or spoon lick, then do the next send. We don’t want him to do a lot of fast reps on this skill, we want him to wait to be cued to send (I know, we are asking him to be patience, and puppies do NOT lick patience 😂)
When you were sending backwards, he was not sure if it was a hand touch or a send. You were getting a little of both. So, two things to try – be a little closer to it so the prop I more obvious. And cue it with a closed fist and pointing finger so it doesn’t look like a hand touch hand cue (open hand). You started doing that at 3:37 and I think it really helped him!Great job! Head over to the Course Syllabus and you can see the new stuff (email about it coming soon to :))
TracyGood morning! This must have come in right after I watched the other videos, sorry to not see it til now!
Great job with Ribsy here! Using the food you have progressed nicely to having the upright a good distance away! You did a great job if presenting the cookie when she made the choice to go around the upright, which was great early timing to affirm that choice. Because she is doing well, you can start to change your position to work up to sitting in a chair then eventually standing up, still dropping the cookies downwards like you did here.
She was VERY excited to do this for her toys!!! Yay! This might have been one of her first sessions with the toys and upright, so on the next session start like you did here with getting the rhythm of the back and forth – then delay wiggling the other toy and see if she finds the rhythm to it like she did with the food. The toys bring more arousal, which is good, so this layers in a way to help her be thoughtful in her decisions even when she is super excited 🙂
Great job here, you and Ribsy look terrific together 🙂
TracyHi again! This was an interesting session! She appeared to be just fine with the prop on the first couple, then she decided she didn’t like it when you switched sides – I didn’t see anything that changed other than I think she prefers to NOT leave you 🙂 And when the cookies were coming from you, she didn’t want to leave for the prop. You recognized that and switched to feeding her on the prop itself, and that helped! Very very smart dog training moment to recognize that it would be better to plop the treat on the prop. She was still not as fast going to it as she was coming back to you (loves da momma!!!!!!!). So another idea is to toss the reward past the prop when she hits it – she hits it, you click and throw it to the other side of the prop – she runs to grab it, then on the way back, she hit it again (hopefully LOL!) and then you can click and toss it again away from you, so she is running back and forth over it to get the treats.
I think she was also trying to figure out how to set up her turns – hit the prop and turn towards you. Smart!!! It will e interesting to see how she decides to fo it 🙂 And yes, you can totally keep this prop and work it, and try some of the goat games to shape her to get on all sorts of different crazy things.
Great job!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi there! This is looking great!!! On the drive to handler sections: on your first couple of reps, you were a little too early and quick on your turns. But then when you came back to it at :16, you waited for her to get to your hand and then you started the turning – perfect! You could see she was much more on your leg for the turn (when you were too early and fast, she wasn’t as sure of where to be). After a couple of sessions, I think she will know the game well enough to let you turn earlier and faster. Great job getting your hand low for her to come to!
And also great job balancing that game with reps of driving to the toy and treats mixed in there. That was brilliant! She was showing what appeared to be equal value for the toys and for the food – that is unusual with puppies but it is GREAT! Her focus forward and drive to whatever you tossed out there was great. That last toy was crazier – what was it? Also, loved your singing to her, I am glad I am not the only one who sings to the puppy during training LOL!!
Next time on the drive ahead, I think she is ready for more of your motion moving forward as you release her to the toy or treat. You can also throw it further, so she can drive ahead even more. Great job on these!!
TracyHi! He is doing well with this! Good boy, touching the spoon wherever it was!! nice! I think he was having trouble with the saliency when it was on low your leg – too much to see/smell so he had a moment of trouble picking put the spoon. You can split that by having it elevated by an inch or two above your leg, then gradually get it lower and lower. For what the future holds for this particular game – do a session with you standing and the spoon extended a little away from your side, at approximately his nose level. This should be SUPER easy after the spoon being in all those different places, but it will prime the pump for where we are going next. It is a low priority after that – we don’t need it til week 3 and it is looking really good.
Nice work!
TracyHi! I think it was perfectly fine to bring the toys to life on this session (and absolutely adorable to watch him too :)) It was more a session of ‘can you leave the fur toy to go to the over’ and the cone wrapping was incidental (which is also fine, because that part was easy 🙂 Separately, you can work the two high value toys without the cone: just have one go dead and wait and see what he does… the throw a GIANT party with the other one if he even looks away from it. I am confident he will be able to do it within a session or two, this was looking really good!!! With food, where I think he will offering going to the other side, you can try moving the cone a little further away to add some more challenge too.
Great job!
TracyHi! Totally happy with how these are coming too! And I think he *really* likes the prop sends, they must appear to be very much like ‘real work’ for him LOL!
He is doing well with the wrapping!! The bowls being a bit further back were not a problem for him at all (yay!) and they helped create more of a bend/wrap (double yay!) I think the upright got a little too far for a while early in the video, I liked that you pulled it back in at :56 – he had a lot more success when it was a little closer. You can keep it there (relatively close) and see how it goes with you standing! I think he is a righty, he was more fluid going to his right and not as comfy going to his left – that is good to keep in mind as we move the upright out away from you over the next few sessions – you can move it further when he is turning to his right and then bring it in when he has to go to his left, to build value equally and get success on both sides. We normally see a side preference at this stage of this game – Contraband is a strong lefty and Elektra is a lefty but not as much so. I thin he got a little mentally tired towards the end? Nothing really got harder but he was not as successful, so you can keep the sessions shorter – it is easy for us humans but the pups are actually doing a lot of work 🙂
Prop send looks great, he looks like he really loves it!!! And being able to send from 5 or 6 feet away is awesome!!! On those forward sends – you can add in a front cross: send him on your left, for example, then as he hits it, turn away and reward from your right (by throwing the cookie straight out ahead of you) or rewarding with a toy.
On the backwards sends – these are harder! He was thought it was a hand touch for a moment there! It was hard to see where you were looking, so we can use connection to help send him behind you to show him the beginnings of countermotion: start with the ready dance with him from front of you and you looking at his eyes. Then when you do the arm and leg step back to sen him, also shift your connection and look from his eyes back to the prop (he will see you turn your head) and that often helps with commitment. You might have been doing this, I couldn’t see your head on the video 🙂Lovely work!!! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
