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Hellooooo and welcome! This will be great for her – we started these games with the MaxPup generation just after her cohort 🙂 It is a perfect winter thing for her! Have fun and stay warm!
TracyWow Joni, she did a great job here! I agree – the foundation is paying off really well 🙂 She was not tooooo distracted by the barking. And you can give her a brain warm up with tugging before you start with treats, so she is a little more focused. But overall, she was terrific on her wraps here without the bowls and in BOTH directions. HAPPY DANCE!!!! The next session should be introducing the turn and burn, I think she will love that 🙂 Great job here, I am excited that she was so fabulous in a new location!!
Tracyhi! Sorry for any confusion!
>>I need to be able to SEND….her to the bag on these.
Yes! She leaves you to go to the bag… but only after you tell her to go with the send cues. She was sending herself in this video LOL!
>am I supposed to have a verbal for the bag? Or just ready, ready…get it or something?
You can have a silly verbal or a noise for now, but nothing you will use on course over jumps. I use sill stuff like “ready ready WHEEE!” haha 🙂
Hi! He did an awesome job here, he is a shaping maniac LOL! The box and the mat both looked good. For the running contacts mat versus a Control Unleashed mat… I use more of a dog bed with sides for the relaxation stuff, and a towel or yoga mat for the running contacts. The dogs are fine with knowing the difference.
Because the value building sessions went so well, for your next session you are not allowed to move 🙂 You should stand completely still at all times (it is a great lazy game for us humans :)) so that he looks at the box or mat and not at you, which includes initiated moving towards it. You can start perpendicular to it, then change angles or let him go forward to it, moving away from you then coming back to you. The placement of reward will get him out of the box to initiate the next rep, without you having to move. We add handler movement a bit later down the road and in a different context after he knows how to leave you in the dust for it 🙂
Great job here! Training running contacts will be FUN!
TracyHi! Oh crud, the sound is off on the video. I was clicking getting in it but the clicks are all over the place! Eek! I will try to fix it or replace it. Thanks for pointing it out!!
TracyHi Mea and Asher! It is pretty normal for dogs to be wary of the MM at first (especially Border Collies). For now, I suggest 2 approaches:
first, don’t turn it on and use it as a food bowl 🙂 You can feed him from it, or use it for treat delivery from your hand, or have a toy in it. That will help make it less scary.
Separately, you can have it at a fair distance away, turn off the beeper element – trigger it so it makes the grinding now and play tug with him (just to desensitize the noise). Then you can get it closer and closer, and eventually you can have him go to it for the treat.
You can also have it turned off and shape him to smack it or put his front feet on it, like a goat game 🙂 That can be fun and raise the value of it!
Let me know what you think, and keep me posted on how he does!
TracyYay, he looks fabulous!! I think it is a combination of one-hit wonders and also he had a couple of days of break from it (unless you took a teeter to the beach hahahahaha) so keep up that cycle: a few days of training for meals, then a few days off, then training, and so on. We will add more motion soooooon 🙂
TracyHi Patty, welcome!!! I love Corgis 🙂 They are adorable AND brilliant, the total package 🙂
I think you will find this good for all ages – on the demo videos, it was my oldest and “most experienced” dog that made the most mistakes LOL!!!
Keep me posted!
TracyHi!
>>Update on the prop 1 game. I think we played more which made her wait for the cue. She had no issues with the sideways or backwards cue.>>
Great!!!! That is awesome!
>>I was looking forward to trying this with her, I thought it looked like fun. She is doing great. I dropped a cookie between me and the jump, which initially made her not go around it. I also pushed it out too far too quickly. I have to watch myself!!! I brought it back it and we were back on task. I pushed it out again but not as far. She did go between me and jump a few times. I didn’t put a cookie in the bowl, she thought about it and did it correctly.>>
Do you mean the wrapping? She is only about 10-11 weeks old, so proceed slowly, you have plenty of time, and use a nice big barrel 🙂 Because she is so young, you only want to do repetitive wrapping maybe one session a week.
>> So my analysis is the pup is awesome and the handler needs to not rush the process.>
I agree on both of these 🙂
>>None the less, I am trying to do it as suggested and my brain is just getting in the way. (I know it shouldn’t, what you are asking for is simple).
Ha! Simple is not easy when it comes to changing muscle memory! It took me a while to get it into my bones when I was learning it.
>>I also tried it outside and with more room to move, I elicited the pant leg grab (instead of the shoe grab). I was also late because I was still thinking too much about what I was supposed to be doing! Second session, back indoors, I did much better. Third session was pretty good, but the handler regressed a bit.>>
Keep things slow for now in terms of your motion. You can do it as a restrained recall if you have someone to hold her, so you get a good head start without too much motion, because motion is so stimulating 🙂
>>>We did one session of the shaping goat work. I was using a large cardboard overnight envelope. She got 4 paws on during the session. I probably could work on playing in between shaping more. Is that object acceptable for now. I have other things (raised) for down the road…aerobic step, raised bed.>>
Perfect! I think it is a great object to start with! The more things you do this on, the better 🙂
>>(sometimes I think I cheat because we do some work before she gets her breakfast!!)
Not cheating at all! It is effective use of food rewards 🙂
Thanks for the update, it sounds like she is doing really well!
TracyHi! I think it is a possibility, depending on when you want him to do it. I think it will be hard for him to do it if you want him to do it as the board is falling (harder to balance) but you can have him land then sit!
Tracy
Hi!
Mountain climbers look great!! He seemed very happy to drive up the board, no matter what you were doing. My favorites were the rear crosses, it is good to train them this early – so many adult dogs don’t know how to maintain their forward focus on the plank while we cross behind them, he was perfect!>> I assume these eventually add some motion with the board. I’m guessing that is going to be a bit of an issue for us to work through. Hopefully we’re able to work through it as well as he has overcome his initial concerns with the height.
Yes! This does add motion. How adjustable is your device? You can add the tiniest bit of movement less than an inch, and see what he does! That will help guide you for how quickly you can get more drop involved.
On the bang game – he also showed a lot of confidence here! The one thing we can change up a little is how much he was looking at you. At :41 he was looking at his position so we want more of that. When you originally taught the end position, did you use a target? If so, you can totally use that target here too to train the position? If so you can use it here too so he can focus on it and not look at you – then we fade it out as we add all the other elements.
Great job!
Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I agree, he definitely did better with the backing up when you were nice and low: it drew his head downwards and made it easier to engage the rear.
When you were working it on the flat and on the object, you can give him more of a point for reference for a starting point by bringing him to you to reset before backing up again. I think he sometimes didn’t know if he should offer more backing or offer other stuff out where he was – that reset moment (like a hand touch when he is on the flat, or a cookie to draw his front feet or all feet of of the object) can reset for more backing up really easily and help eliminate the other dance moves 🙂
For the next session on the flat – try to click before he stops moving (like at :53) and befoe he gets into the bow, and you can also throw the reward further so he doesn’t stop to eat it. Being able to eat while in the bow position was getting more bow, so you can-create a response cost for the bow by having the treat further away – so he has to move a bunch of steps to get it – which will get more backing up but less bowing. On the 2nd session (after the cone wraps) –
having the destination there really helps! I think the reset will definitely help him know it is a backing up game – you can cue or lure him to step forward then let him offer the backing up. He was not sure how to start the procedure so was offering other stuff 🙂And you can have your sitting position be part of the cue for now – when you went to the session on the inflatable, he was not sure if it was a 4on goat game or a backing up game so he offered a bit of all the things 🙂 You can have him hop on all 4s to get started (he had really nice balance on that – it is far harder than he made it look!!) then use the seating position and the reset to let him know that you wanted the backing up. And if you don’t want backing up, and just want balancing with all 4s – standing up will make it look pretty different.
The wing wraps on the cone looked super!!! I think he has this going really nicely 🙂 Next step… fade the bowls! You can have them present and visible… but reward from your hands now instead of dropping into the bowl. Then when he is fine with that, you can take them out entirely. You can also use 2 toys for this! Fading the bowls will help you get to the Turn And Burn game, which he will like because he gets to run run run 🙂
The tugging looks good! He is such a great tugging pup!! You can definitely try this on the cone with a tug in each hand. I love how he switched between toys so nicely – and it looks like he did not grab too much flesh? And also was weight shifting really nicely on the longer toy at about 8:09, I love the weight shifting! You can also apply that super tugging and weight shifting to the wobble board, see if he can tug and weight shift while on it! You might have to brace it so it doesn’t move that much for now, but it will be a great foundation for the teeter movement further down the road.
Great job!
TracyHi!
>>Sometimes I’m fumbling adjusting to who I have.
I feel that completely! We need to start a support group LOL!!!
I went back and practiced just the wings and counter motion at home – with just a toy! She had a blast. We took the tunnel plus one wing on the road. I practiced some stronger tunnel sends and then the front cross wraps.>>
These looked great – she had lovely speed and commitment, and your connection was really awesome!!! Yay!! On the wing wraps, you were experimenting a bit with the timing of your transitions while keeping her committed – the first couple were good but could have been sooner because she was a little wide. But then at :40, you nailed it – you decelerated sooner and rotated sooner while maintaining connection and look at how tight she was! Happy dance!
The last rep on the bigger sequence – I did notice she was not as fast as she had been, good to know it was an ouchy that will heal. What a good girl to keep working!!! She did well with her lines and commitments on that rep – her only question was at :56 on the wrap to the outside. I think you stayed there for too long to help her, so she read that as deceleration and slowed way down. You can send and leave while staying connected, and she will be faster on that line.Great job!! Hope she heals up fast!!
TracyHi!
>.the I have the baby gate up and the cat is on the other side. She is worried about that. lol.
Yes, I saw the cat pounce on her at the end of the other video LOL!!!
>>But it said not to worry if they are turning the wrong way, so I just kept going.
Correct! Usually it is handler error when they turn the wrong way, so we reward in the right direction anyway 🙂
On the video:
I agree, I think the bag will be a better choice, she doesn’t have as much value for the boot here so she was looking at other things at first and not driving to it as much.
One thing that will help especially on the right turns: You can let her start moving before you, which will allow you to actually show her the RC pressure sooner without her feeling like she needs to push away from the pressure of the RC cue. When you were starting with her, the RC cue was a little last minute at the prop so she turned well to her left (her stronger side) but then it was harder to her right because the info was later. Starting it almost like a send til she takes a step or two forward then you start moving will let you cut in behind her sooner and cue it earlier.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
