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LOL~ That is funny! When watching a video and something is not going as well as it could, I default to something Bob Bailey taught about a zillion years ago: when the animal’s behavior is not what you think it is, look at 3 things:
Timing
Criteria
Reinforcement (rate and placement)Your timing was good. Your criteria was a small part of it (mat not being salient enough as a hind end target). Rate of reinforcement was great! Placement of reinforcement: a-ha! It was bringing his head up so he was angling to lift his head sooner.
Let me know how he does with the intermediate option – we are adding more to this profession on Tuesday 🙂
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Hi! This shows a really strong progression (and it helped his commitment hold up beautifully today as we added complexity! Super! And yes – on the last 2 reps, seeing him turn and actively look for the line without needing much help from you is definitely happy-making!!! I don’t mind the cookie sniffing in the 2nd rep, we aren’t going to spend a lot of time on this game and he caught on VERY quickly as to how to earn the next cookie 🙂 Yay! This is something to revisit here and there but overall, I would say it has accomplished the goal os allowing him to work through today’s crazy stuff. Yay! You can add in lazy elements to proof commitment sometimes, and I will post more, all in the name of NOT having to be perfect in handling or connection. If you wanted to revisit these before the snow comes, add more distance and the one step sends we played with today.
Great job!
tracyHi! Long time no see LOL!!! Great job this morning, it is so cool to have you in the live classes!!!
>>He would trot to the tunnel on the wing wrap and galloped in on the lead outs.>>
That is so interesting! Dogs are so funny!! Well, if he has to have a preference, I am glad he prefers lead outs because he is going to see a lot of them over the next 10 years or so 😂😁
>>From the video it sounded like you were using a verbal for the tunnel but not for the wing wraps.
Yes I was relatively quiet on the wings, partially because I wanted to be sure the pups could do it before I named it and partially because coordination on sends AND talking is hard for me LOL!
Kaladin did really well here! He totally preferred the acton of sending after the tunnel and also he was really good about propelling out there automatically. I agree, you can add more distance, he had no trouble with this. When you did the FC wrap on the single wing, I bet you can turn sooner like we were talking about this morning. On the sends, there is no fast-slow-rotate transition, so the timing of rotating is more when you see him looking at the wing but still about a foot or two from it. You can then run out of it to reward because with distance, you will be standing still near the tunnel and that might not be as fun of a reward as taking off like a wild woman.
You can totally add your wrap verbals, he is very successful and you are more coordinated than I am 😁
Great job here!!!!That makes sense, I thought he did great in the video!!! Isolating the spots where he might have been a little worried about the movement – do what I call “one hit wonders” which is add a tiny tiny bit of movement, do one single rep (just one!) and deliver a MASSIVE jackpot. For example, when Export was worried, I would do one rep and give him 6 or 7 giant chunks of hot dog…. then he got his favorite toy and that was the entire training session. The goal is to pair massively good things with the movement and then be finished before the dog can think about it 🙂 Keep me posted!
Hi! These look great! And yes, he did like having more motion but he was also fabulous about driving away on the one step send! Interestingly, he did a little better on your left out of the tunnel (he seemed to propel himself to the wing more) and when he was on your right out of the tunnel, he was looking at you more. We saw the same thing in the live seminars with the other pups – a bit of side preference out of tunnel. Good to know, because we can add more handling and training to balance it out! I don’t think it had to do with more motion, because when you were running on your right, he still wanted to look at you. So, from a handling perspective, give him more of an exaggerated connection when he is on your right, both before the tunnel and on the send. And, from the training perspective – throw the rewards out past the wing when he is on your right to help him want to propel out to it more easily.
He was setting himself up for gorgeous turns on the sends!!! Super nice!!!!!!!! It is great to see him power into the wing with speed, set up a collection, then power out. Since he did so well – add more space to the wings where he is on your left, moving them further away so the send is bigger. You can keep the wing when he is on your right in close for now, until he is as comfy on your right as he is on your left.
Great job!!!
TracyHi! Your sends look really good here – they should feel a little lazy and like you are walking LOL! She is showing such beautiful commitment on the wing after the tunnel that you can totally add more distance by moving them further away. Your connection and sending looks great!! When you added in the FCs, she had zero problem with them – good girl! You can add more connection to her eyes after the FCs as you send to the tunnel: keep your dog-side shoulder back more while she is behind you, so she can read the line to the tunnel more clearly. When you were ahead and closed your shoulder forward a little, she ha a little more trouble reading the one back to the tunnel.You can definitely spread these out to add more challenge and distance on the sends (wings further away and you still stay relatively close to the tunnel).
I love the ramp! Perfect!!! She of course was perfectly happy on it. And it has peacock feather design on it? So cool! And that is not chaos, your dogs are all so good 🙂
Great job here!
Tracyhi there! Great job on these! Is that him making monkey noises when he runs?!? LOL!
The One step sends are looking really good. The first couple of runs were spot on! Those all had great connection, obvious step with the leg, and a low arm. Now, when he had questions on your left turns and the send to the tunnel… note how you were “pointier”, meaning your were pointing more and looking at the obstacles more rather than at him, so he couldn’t quite read the line of your shoulders. When he was successful, you were more connected and exaggerate the leg motion, but kept the arm lower. I will bug you more about that tomorrow LOL!
Lazy Game: are you singing a cheese version of a Christmas song? LOL! This went just as it was suppoesed to: super easy! He seemed shocked that it was so easy but it looks like he was happily driving ahead. You did the full course version of it LOL! you can also add in some lazy games on tunnels, so that he takes the tunnel that you are moving towards.
Teeter game: This is going well! Remind me – did you say he was nervous about the sound? Or the movement? I will go find it – He seemed pretty confident on these!! Yes, back it up so it isn’t moving for a couple more sessions and we can add some crosses and more speed and so on – mainly just too keep building the love for it. For the 1-2-3 elevator game – he is a little head up on this, so I recommend doing the bang game before this one to get him looking downwards to the target. I will take you all through the progression, but for the end position it is basically bang game then elevator game then sexy elevator game 🙂Great job here!!!!
TracyHi! Great job on the lazy game! Perfect for smooshy ground. She did really well – a couple of looks at you like you were nuts 🙂 But she seemed to have no trouble finding the lines as you moved each jump further away and also as you stayed closer to jumps 1 and 3, That will serve you well as we begin to add in sending so you can get away up the lines (you will see more of that coming out of this weekend’s live seminars). You can also do some tunnel lazy game, where you meander towards the tunnel and reward her for taking it.
I could hear it starting to rain LOL!! Great job, this is a really nice warm up for what is coming next 🙂
TracyHi! Before I got the teeter device, I used a heavy/solid wing jump and really shoved it in tight to prop the teeter. I have also used an agility table, a small step ladder, a metal chair, and a saw horse from Home Depot 🙂 As long as it is really solid, I can get it wedged in pretty tightly to hold the teeter.
TracyHi! Welcome!!!
Understandable that you would not want her to be nutty about it!!!Ideally, you would have her in a stay or throw a cookie away for her to chase, so you could be at the end of the board and facing her before she gets on it, to deliver the cookie.
Now, it is possible that she will still want to jump over or through you 🙂 So we can introduce the concept on a plank that goes up to a table – so it is lower, less speed, and she can stop on the table and not flatten you. Let me know if that makes sense!
TracyHelloooooooo! Dang snow! But… thank you for working in your warm & toasty basement! I think we managed to give Pirate a good work out 🙂 Fingers crossed for NO SNOW and warm weather this week 🙂 You rocked it today!!
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Hi! Glad to see you here! I can’t believe that all these puppies are growing up so fast! She looks great here. I would venture to say that she loved the lazy game LOL!!! She was VERY happy to do all the work and go fast, and eat all the cookies 🙂 Nice!!! You were appropriately lazy – she is getting very independent on her lines. You can spread these jumps out even more: she is a big striding girl so you can add challenge and get even more distance & independence.
She did awesome on the plank game too! To avoid any confusion with the 2o2o you are working on, you can use a ‘get it’ cue or something similar when you throw a treat, because that will be a permission to leave the plank. She was pretty darned perfect on this, so you can add in angles of entry by throwing the treat off to the side. I think that is where she will most have to think about lining up her hind end to get on the board and maintain balance.
For the teeter: I have used a really strong wing jump (if you have one, your wings might be too light) – but the 24” table can totally work too! I think I have also used metal folding chairs too – anything that you can shove in there to get it really tight and so the board will not move at all.
Great job here!!
TracyGood question! Nope, no issues later for 2 reasons:
First, the turning around and going back down is something I assist with so they don’t do it on their own.
Second, we put in a ton of value for the end position and then driving forward – so the pups quickly forget that they ever ran back down the other way. For the very small pups like my tiny Papillon who is 5 lbs – I taught her that waiting at the end was worth her while (cookies!) even though the teeter took forever to tip and she could have easily turned around and run down the other end LOL!
