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Glad you had fun! Spot is a superstar in the making 🙂 Hope your knee is better and you can get back to running asap!
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Goooooood morning! On the video: Excellent! I think the lala and roro will be great – when you are moving and being louder, they will sound even more different and that will be useful to him on course.
I love the way he slithers around the barrels 🙂 That is going to set up some really gorgeous turns over bars!!
He wasn’t always sure if he should leave the sit when you were doing the lala or roro, so you can add in a gentle collar hold: hold him (you’ll have to bend over so his feet don’t come off the ground :)), start your lala or roro, then let go. The lala or roro *can* be a release but really never need to be, so we can start it without a stay 🙂
Great job here!Good morning and welcome!! Great to see you here!!
On the video, he did a great job. Nice choice of verbals! Easiest session ever LOL!! He did a great job with the directionals being added – and when you moved back, I noticed that he was leading with his head through the turn. YESSSS! Good boy! And I see no difference between you being close and low, or further and low, or standing – it all looked good. The toy reps also looked great – yes, you will end up with fewer reps with the toy but the quality of the reps were terrific: fast and tight and accurate. Nice!
Question – how does he feel about you holding his collar? The next session would be, ideally: you gently hold his collar, you start saying the the verbal, then you let go and he wraps. This will help us be ready for some of the other games. Now, if he is happy to have his collar held, go for it! Usually my order of festivities is: collar hold, cookie (while holding the collar) then verbal then let go – this is to keep the collar holding high in value. If he is NOT happy to have his collar held, no worries, we will build it: touch collar with a finger or gentle stick your finger under it – cookie delivery and let go quickly (or touch collar then present the toy). Let me know what he thinks of it 🙂(Also super happy to see him being able to do cookies AND toys when associated with the wraps :))
Great job!
TAh! That might be why she was turning so much better one direction – all dogs have a stronger side and a weaker side, but I have never noticed Keiko showing *that* much difference 🙂
(Some of the games from the commitment class will be presented here in a more puppy-friendly way, I love the games so much and couldn’t help myself now that we started filming the commitment class LOL!!!)
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Welcome! You didn’t leave, you just graduated to the next level. Wheeeee! I am looking forward to seeing Brother Stark fly through these challenges!!!!
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Welcome back! Dottie is so cute – I think it is entirely possible that Corgis are the absolute cutest puppies of all. The breed is definitely on my list for the future: smart, driven, and absolutely adorable!! Can’t wait to see her in action 🙂
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Hello and welcome! I am so excited to see what you and Keiko do in this class!!! Big things ahead 🙂
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Hi!
Yes, we will be running Crazy Commitment 3 🙂 That is more of an adult dog handling class, masters-level stuff that builds off of the spring and summer handling classes. My 8, 7, and 6 year old dogs will be handling those demos – my big pup will be a year old by then and *might* do a simple demo or two (or not LOL!) and my 6 month old pup will not be demo-ing for that class at all. It is too advanced for them 🙂 (lordy, now that I have written that… I have a LOT of dogs LOL!!!!!)We will do something better-suited for the pups to carry us through the winter – I have a MaxPup “Putting It Together” class which will be fun for the Contraband, Keiko, and other teenagers group 🙂
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Hi! Great job! My only suggestion is to make the sounds a little more different – maybe extend one and leave the other shorter? Lalalalala versus riiiiii riiiiii riiiiiii, just to make it even easier to process when you are moving.
Was it just my imagination or was she perfectly smooth on the left wraps on the wing & barrel… but gazing off a bit on the right wraps? I couldn’t tell if there was a distraction she saw on the right wraps, or she is just stronger turning left. It is good to know which the stronger side is, for when we add distractions 🙂T
Sorry for the delay, I didn’t see this til now! Sorry to hear about your dad and your dog, that must have been so difficult, I can’t even imagine. I am sure Charlee and Dikkens gave you lots of love during that tie <3
Dikkens did a great job on this course too! He seems to prefer a more intense connection style, where you are a little closer to him and looking at him more - when you do that he is perfect. When you got too far ahead and looked ahead at :07, he dropped the bar. That is one of those moments where you can plan on getting closer to the tunnel before moving up the line to 3-4 so you don't get too far ahead. On middle section around the curved tunnel, you were closer to him and very connected - he nailed it! Yay!!
>>. Laughing about jump 14. I thought that seemed terribly difficult. I have the same error with Dikkens. >Ha! You were probably thinking: what the heck crazy course is this?? LOL! But Dikkens also made a great weave entry, well done training that and trusting him!
Great job here – yes, you can totally play with the handling suggestions we talked about for Charlee, but keeping yourself close enough to connect strongly – he is pretty amazing when you do that.
Have fun!
TracyVery cool!!!! Yes, the grids and so many things are much easier if the pup is happy to go to a dead toy. You’ll see some of that in the next class too – dead toy drive is SO helpful! He looked really good here! My only suggestion is to move the toy about 5 feet further past the last jump – he is doing a little ass-over-teakettle on the last jump, and that can often be resolved by moving the toy away (he might not be thinking about hind end, he might be thinking about the toy :))
Excellent job building the love for the dead toy!T
Hi! Yes, he did really well on the circles here – no thoughts of rear crosses and he showed really nice commitment. It is fun to see how he can really bend and power through! The circle cue sounds significantly different from the lala triplet, so I think it is a great choice.
He is also doing well on his slices – if you start him from a stay, you can move your line of motion over to show the parallel path further across the bar (moving towards center of the bar then eventually moving forward to the exit wing). Nice work dropping the ball in pretty early – when he comes around the entry wing, he is not yet in the mode of automatically changing leads/shifting his focus to the bar – that means he needs another session or 2 or 3 of the reward dropped in nice and early. When you see that he was already planning on going to the bar before you even dropped the ball in, then you can delay the ball drop and wait for his decision to come in (then reward it with the ball drop).
He did great on the parallel path – both in easily finding the front of the jump (it was a no-brainer for him, easy peasy!) and in ignoring the ball 🙂>>On another topic, are we going to do any circle work games in the next session? Because I’m seeing something there that I’d like your input on, but I can hold it for the next session if it’s coming up anyway.>>
We have some variations on circle work planned, but not the Derrett-style circle work. Fill me in on what you are seeing and I will be able to tell you if it is already or not – and if not, we can add it in!
Tracy
