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Hi! 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 🙂
TracyKeep me posted! I am thankful that we can watch the videos over and over til the answers reveal themselves LOL!!!
Awww this is a great update! I am so glad you had fun! Abbey and the Incredipaws crew are among my favorite trainers/handlers, it is really cool that you have access to them! I might have met the other Kelpie that goes there at a seminar in October? Cool dog, he is going to turn out great!
I am really excited that Ted handled a new location so beautifully – what a great opportunity! And I bet he loved getting to open up and run around there, so you probably had a very happy pup on your hands afterwards. Yay!!!!T
Hi!
>>Training with little kids is always interesting!
I bet! They seem so engaged and want to be involved – super fun!!
>>When he got worked up with the teeter he would get more and more frantic and sometimes take off running. That behavior has been getting better lately.
Glad it is getting better! One more thought – because it appears to be a high-arousal behavior triggered by the teeter and he doesn’t quite know what to do with himself so he takes off and runs – keep your sessions very very short, like 2 reps then quit. That way he can learn the behavior and never get into the take-off-running zone. You can do 2 reps, go do something else, come back later, and see how he does!
The handling on the video looked REALLY good! The GO after the tunnel at the end of each looked super strong 🙂 He is moving fluidly, with confidence and oh yeah: FAST! Love it!
On the wraps: On the first rep, you had a little too much slam on the brake and your dog-side leg stayed back at :13, so he didn’t commit. You took that one extra step forward with the dog side lef on the next rep and he totally got it. Yay! You can play with decelerating sooner to then rotate sooner – it is the deceleration that will help the commitment.
The backside rep looked awesome – super connected and clear so he was able to read it with speed and accuracy.
The rear crosses are indeed harder – the first one was a little late, you ran the wrap line from the first reps so he committed to that, and your RC pressure was too late. But the last rep on the video was totally different – you pressured into the RC line MUCH sooner and he was able to read it. NICE! And I am sure the training with throwing of the rewards there helped too. Fun!
He is coming along really nicely in the handling, and you look so connected! Great job!
TracyAs a reformed arm-flinger, I learned to be a good penguin/squirrel by running with a bottle of water in my hand. An open bottle – so when I would fling, I would also get water on my head LOL!!! That would be a fun holiday game here in MaxPup!!!!
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Hi! So in the previous post where I mentioned he was moving away and to consider it as possibly him avoiding – I thought his first 2 runs up the board here were stronger and notice how he whipped around to engage with you at :31! Progress!! I doesn’t mean we want to do a million reps LOL! But it is a definite sign of a change 🙂
About the bang game: He might just be stronger turning to his right to get on the board than to his left, or it could be that you start on your left side (he turns right) on these sessions, then switch to the other side – so he is more sensitized by then. The wing there involves criteria and when he doesn’t quite get all the way up, you are resisting temptation to withhold the reinforcement – yes, give him the food simply for interacting with it! That was a good decision. I would suggest a couple of things for the bang game:
– don’t use the wing, let him offer whatever he needs now and get lots of yummies 🙂
– have less tip, especially when he is on his harder side, so it is easier to jump on – that will make it easier to get all feet on it. He might simply be stronger pushing off his right hind than his left hind at the moment, and it will balance out as he grows up (still a teenager LOL!)You can also split the sessions into only the 2 reps of the mountain climber. Or only 2 reps of the bang game (and even only on the good side!). Separate sessions by hours or days – the pairing can cement that way 🙂
I see improvement already, he is doing great!!!!
Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! Catching up on the Stark teeter videos!
>>I have video of Stark doing the teeter for his dinner. He was great with the bang game on his left side but was a little hesitant on his right. I’m not sure why.Not sure either, possibly too many reps, possibly the proximity of the PVC thing, who knows 🙂 But you can also have less tip on the bang game, make it an inch off the ground so it is really easy to jump on.
You can also let him guide the session – we humans like to do one more… but note how after the release he was moving away from the teeter, not bringing the ball back, having trouble jumping right into your arms – so you can move away from the teeter as well to engage and not go back to it. He might be taking your proximity to the teeter as a sign that you are going to ask him to do it again, so he is avoiding a little.
>>His first time going up the teeter he was a little concerned and was a little more confident doing it the second time.>
Yes, I think both reps were stronger especially the 2nd one!
>>We stopped after that and it left him looking at me and saying WTF mom!! Hahaa!!that is EXACTLY what we want him to do LOL!
Onwards to breakfast below 🙂
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