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Hi! The footwork on the wrap and on the slice looked really good. Think about sending and running away more rather than staying near the wing. On the blind, you run towards the wing then directly away from it (back to where you started). This is what you were doing, it looked good! On the slices, you can show the difference by running away on a line that is parallel to the wing, to create the letter “L” with your running path. On your slices here, you were a bit too much like a wrap.
Nice emphasis on connecting on the exit line!!
And nice job getting it done with ChiChi, she will for sure let you know if you were wrong haha!T
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He did well targeting the mat! He isn’t quite sure about the MM, as you mentioned, so it was not exactly as reward for him. So since Sue lent it to you (thanks, Sue!!!), you can work it separately from the mat – just get him eating from the MM without it moving (I toss treats into it for a while til the dog isn’t afraid of the device) then add the churning wheel sound with high value food, then eventually the bee;ing sound. He is really very food driven so I bet he gets happy with it really fast!
But no need to work on shaping anything with it til he flies to it when he hears it – in this session, he was offering lots on the mat but wasn’t going to the MM for reward, so the mat behavior deteriorated. Keep them separate for now til he thinks the MM is a magical, amazing thing 🙂T
Hi there! Nice commitment to the wing here! I think we can make the whole thing more revved up – you can start with your hand in his collar, a bit of ready ready ready… then let go, cue the around with verbal and step. And when he is at the wing – take off and run run run 🙂 You were a bit too stationary so he was not driving. Running to get him to chase you for the reward helps with the commitment and makes it super fun – especially when using food rewards.
Tracy
Hi! He did really well on this pill bug! He checked all the boxes: ran without jumping up, ran fast, stayed on the side you wanted. Nice! You can reward across the body (rather than from the dog-side hand) to added connection but overall, really nice!
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On the first video, chase da momma with blind crosses: she was fast and really seemed to read the blinds beautifully. Yay!
On the pill bugs, she was doing well here too – you can start to fade the highly obvious toy and just keep your dog-side arm back and give great connection. You can then present the toy and drag it or throw it as a reward to keep the toy engaging – I think she did really well going back and forth from food to toys, and if the toy is dragging or flying, she will be even more excited to engage with it 🙂On the wing wraps – she is definitely building value and offering lots – terrific! You can now start to call her back (and reward) to reset between reps – I think sometimes she isn’t sure of where the cookie went or what to do next so you can totally clarify that with a reset/restart for each rep. This is especially important as you add the backwards wraps. She got hesitant because she wasn’t sure of when to start & stop, but that is an easy fix with resetting and restarting her.
For verbals – what are your wraps verbals? Use those on these, the value is in place and she is ready. You were using break or go, and those aren’t as applicable as the wrap verbal(s). For example, when you were doing the 360 wraps (big countermotion) you can send ehr to the wing with a directional verbal rather than break (she isn’t in a stay and also break doesn’t give much info about what to do at the wing).
She did really well with the 360 wraps! Those are the hardest ones! You had good connection and good treat placement, which really helped.
Try to never ever say ‘oops’ to this dog… she really deflates. For example at 2:05, you tossed a cookie, she got it, but didn’t finish the wrap (she doesn’t have to finish it after a reward), you ‘oops’ed her… she was all like, “huh??” and it took a while to get her lined up again. I don’t think you realize you are using oops but it marks that something is wrong – and something totally wasn’t wrong and even if it is, just call her and reset happily, like you did when she was wanting to offer the wing before you were ready.
I think she had some trouble seeing all of the thrown treats, so maybe try something bigger or more obvious like a Charley Bear or white cheese? The timing and placement were really good so it was just a visibility matter.
Overall, she is doing great on her wing wraps, pill bugs and blinds! Nice job!Tracy
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The tight blinds on the wing are going well! I think the slices towards the end were easier than the wraps but the wraps are off to a good start too! And yay for using your verbals 🙂 Starting a bit further away and leading out less will give you more motion coming into it, which will help him a lot in terms of committing especially to the wraps. You can also use the wing instead of the wingless, to give a bigger visual. And better commitment will help you turn sooner – right now your timing was fine because he needed to commit but as you add more motion, he will commit sooner and then you can turn before he reaches the wing.
Nice connection and rewarding on the exits too!Box & MM session: great job clicking for hind end! You can incorporate reset cookies into these sessions, so you can get more of a ‘start now’ and less wandering into it from him. So you can line him up next to you, gently hold his collar, get him stoked (ready ready ready!) then let go – you click for hind end in the box, he gets the prize, you call him back for a cookie, reset him, and do another rep. That will get a little more giddy up into the behavior, and you can send from different angles as well – the reset cookie will allow you to move to different positions.
You can also turn the box over at this point so it is a little raised, making it a bit more of a challenge because he has to step into it more.
RC on the wing – nothing wrong with luring here 🙂 The hand signal for this cue can always look like there is a cookie in it, so you can have a cookie in it for a while 🙂 He was happy to turn to the wing, but he was not all that excited about driving into your hand – that is pretty normal 🙂 My Voodoo did the same thing 🙂 So, we can get him really excited to come to your hand (so you can then set him up to turn around the wing) but mixing in rewarding from your hand when he arrives, and also throwing the cookie straight back behind you when he gets to your hand (or a ball, or whatever her likes). That will put some value on driving hard to your hand even when the wing in there, because that wing has some nice value now. And, to keep things exciting, I really liked your cookie dance break at about 1:30! He isn’t ready for toys in the picture with all the food yet, but that dance party got him pumped up (rather than getting into a cookie sleepy moment) and that is exactly what the toy play is intended to accomplish. Nice!!!
Well done!!
TracyGood morning!
Lots of good stuff here!
BC on the flat – overall looking really good! A couple of ideas to help prep for when it goes into sequences –
A smaller detail, but it can become really important – I would put the cookie toss away on a verbal get it cue, to give a permission to leave to get it. Otherwise, tossing or putting down toys/treats is not the cue to get them. I couldn’t hear if you were saying anything but it sounded quiet 🙂
The single blinds are looking great, nice attention to the detail of connection & how to reward!! That opens up the connection so nicely. When you do the double blinds, which simulate running a course, run with your arms back the whole time and act like you have a reward in each hand – mainly so the connection on the first blind can be as good as the connection on the 2nd blind (or on the single blinds). Here on the video, on the first blind with the non-toy hand (dog-side shoulder) your shoulders are closed forward (like at 1:33) so even though your head is turned, the forward shoulder will block her being able to see it and she won’t pick up that blind. Running with the arms back behind you and making the big cross-body connection (as if you are going to reward, even when you don’t) will help make very clearly connections.RC on the wing – looking good too! 2 little tweaks –
make sure you present the cue (magic cookie hand extended towards her) before you release her, otherwise the cue gets muddied and she might think you want a wing wrap rather than the RC.also be sure that the hand/foot draw a line straight back then turn her away, rather than towards the wing and turn away simultaneously, which is what you were beginning to do in the reps here. That can muddy the cue by cueing the jump before she is turned, so it might end up looking like a throw back (rotated wrap cue) rather than the lap turn/RC on the flat cue. She might also start to anticipate and take the jump on a slice, which we don’t want, so you can give a cookie from your hand before turning her away.
BCs on the wing – starting on your right, looks really good! You can start her further away, which will give you more time to start them sooner so you are starting them before she gets to the wing – which gives you more time to finish them and reconnect before she zips around the wing 🙂
For whatever reason, starting on your left is less comfy for you, so keep working the mechanics like you did until it becomes more second nature – I always tell myself to turn away from the dog, or you can try to pick a spot in the correct direction to turn towards to help your muscle memory get happy with it 🙂
Nice work here!!!
Tracy
Hi! You can totally adapt it! And take your time working through it – the MaxPup 3 stuff is probably fine for 9 and 10 months old. The MaxPup 4 will be too advanced for 9 or 10 months but by the time we get to it, the pup might be ready!
TracyGood morning! You function beautifully after being awake for 24 hours! And yes, I agree that flyball is a great foundation for a well-rounded sports dog (and helps some life skills as well, such as recall to me no matter what craziness is happening around you or how many balls are on the ground LOL!!)
The video looked good – nice job with the mechanics of turning her away and also the balancing in the step backs. She sometimes anticipated and did a wrap rather than the rear cross, but that had 2 causes – one, lack of patience on her part LOL! She was moving before released so was not yet seeing the come-to-hand element of the cue. Now that she has so much value for the wing, you can mix in setting her up further back in a stay and tossing rewards back to her for the stay element (patience is a virtue hahaha)
Second, on a couple of reps, you were stepping to the wing (mot straight back) as you were drawing her in and she in those moments was also anticipating a bit. You can help the hand override legs in that moment by mixing in rewards for coming to your hand, or have her come to your hand and reward straight back by tossing the treat out back behind you for driving to you – that can help reduce the anticipation and build value for the hand cue of ‘come in’ to balance out the great love of the wing.
Nice job!!!!
TracyHi there!
The first couple of pill bugs were great, you were connected and I think she had fun chasing you! At :35ish, you ended up a little disconnected so she wasn’t sure which side ot be on. Same on the next rep – you were getting far ahead but disconnecting so she ended up on the wrong side of you. You can reward sooner so that you don’t have to tempt death-by-pillbug LOL!! But overall keep rewarding and go fast for short spurts and short distances – that keeps it easier be connected and she will have fun chasing you.Dog walk planks – The recall was great! The first rep where you had your cookie hand in her face was not helpful for her because she was following the cookies and not thinking about the plank. BUt when you switched to recalls, she nailed it! You can do more recalls, adding 2 things – rather than facing her, face away from her so she is chasing you more than coming to your front. And also you can add leading out halfway then releasing and walking so she is doing the plank with you moving. Then you can work it up to jogging then running! She seems happy on it and confident!
While you are still walking, you can raise the plank so she can get the hang of it 6 inches off teh ground, a foot off the ground, and so on.
Nice work, she seemed super happy on these!!Tracy
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Good tugging to start, he was engaged with you til you got ready for the plank. Nice!
And if you feel like you need 32 hands for this, I feel your pain! When he gets on the plank, you can have the cookie hand hold his collar like you did at 1:24, then put the target in then let go (and when you run out of cookies in the hand, release). It takes some mechanics at first but you did get it on that last one especially! And I think at this point you can try putting the target on the ground and that will free up one of your hands.
Nice work here!Tracy
Hi there! I think it is safe to say that he loves his wing wraps 🙂 Yay! He cracked me up – as you were getting ready, he went and did a wrap then stood there all like, “DUDE I DID THE WRAP WHERE IS MY PARTY” LOL!!! Love him!
These were really good – excellent speed, no hesitation, you had the verbals going, all great. Nice! I think at this point you can start the next session as you ended this one: with the jump wing already out there and playing with a toy – then send him to the wing and reward with tugging. That will be really fun to add more speed and excitement. When you get more room, you can add a little more distance and also more running from you – but that might need wait til you have less snow and more grass 🙂Nice work!
TFound it!
Hot Sauce really hated the teeter for a long time – you can see she didn’t like it when her back feet touched the teeter on the first few reps, then she offered getting and turning around (I rewarded all of that). Then I was able to gently massage the shaping to the point where she was backing up onto the board. And I did some targeting to help keep her mind off of the teeter element. Lanna is a lot more confident about the noise and movement from what I can see of her, so you are likely to be able to get more backing onto the board. And you can do the targeting with 4on if you want, or 2o2o. This vide was filmed when 2020 was on the radar for me (last July).
T
Good morning! Wait, you haven’t trained your box turn and doing full runs yet? LOL!!! I am confident she will learn her box turn in a heartbeat when you get it rolling. Flyball training is great for agility dogs (and vice versa). Can’t wait to see you at CanAm, maybe?
First video – she seemed like a super happy monkey to slam it and get her toy. I didn’t see anything that looked like worry or concern to me! Yay! One thing you can do with this set up is have her back up onto the teeter, to help her realize that her BACK feet are useful here too LOL! I have a video of it somewhere, I will find it – I think Lanna’s backing up is strong enough that you can do it. She was primarily doing front feet here which is great, but we can add the back foot element as well.
The mountain climber video was a cool progression to watch! She looked like she felt it was weird at first – tentative and also note the style of tail wag. But after a few reps, I think she caught on and was outrunning you to the end. Perfect feeding position from your helper person! This is the type of game to put on as many different teeters as possible and full height teeters. We build it into a full teeter eventually by combining it with other games.
Nice work here! Let me go find the backing up video.
T
Good morning! Where we you in the wobble board video, and can I come visit? LOL!! Looks beautiful!
On the wing wraps – I think you can add in more excitement for sure! That can be in the form of revving him up more before the send, and then as he is finishing his wrap, start to run so he can chase you. His value and understanding is definitely building up nicely so now we can add back the layers of motion.
About the offering of the jumps… the easiest thing to do is not have any jumps around when you are doing other stuff (just removing the bars and putting the wings together). That way he can’t offer it – because he isn’t necessarily wrong to offer based on where you were, but we don’t want to reward him for leaving you to offer a jump (because that will encourage more offering of jumps without permission which makes it harder to put it all on stimulus control, develop criteria on turns, and also harder to get stay behavior or get him to NOT take jumps) and we don’t want to NOT reward or worse, tell him he is wrong to offer it, because that reduces value. So for now – avoid the opportunity entirely 🙂 And if he leaves you to take jumps far away, just have him on leash or in a stay as you are getting ready. He doesn’t need to be doing his own course design LOL!!Wobble board – the scenery is distracting! Yes, he got startled but it also shows us that we can build more resilience to things moving differently or loudly – super important for all the variations in types of teeters and noises he will encounter! Even on the seesaw, he was a bit careful. My Hot Sauce was like this too, at the same age. So a few things to try: one hit wonder sessions, where all he has to do is kinda interact with the wobble board and he gets a jackpot (like a meal) then the whole session is done. By “interact”, I mean even a gentle touch LOL! He doesn’t have to move it much or make it slam at first. With the massive jackpots, he will get more and more excited about it. The super short sessions really help. On the teeter slamming, you can also do the massive jackpots and one rep sessions (then go do something else, then another rep 20 minutes later, for example). If he has a toy he REALLY loves (ball? Frisbee?) or a treat he adores – reserve that for teetering 🙂 For example, my pup loves disc more than life – so her teeter work is done with the disc and as she was building value, it was the only time she saw the disc. In other words: the teeter became magical because it produced the disc 🙂 With my oldest dog, he loved the Cuz balls and also Vienna Sausages (ewww!) so the teeter was what produced those in his world. The one hit wonder high value sessions on the wobble board and on the teeter games is what got both of these dogs to love the teeter and super resilient to all of the different speeds and noises the teeter produces.
Blind cross foundation is looking really good! Nice job of getting clear connection and (generally :)) rewarding across the body – he read them all really well! This might be a god game to introduce the back-and-forth between food and toys – send to a boring cookie then he can chase you for a crazy toy. I know that toy versus cookie is hard for most of our dogs so this might be a good place to install this!
Nice work here!!
Tracy
