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Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning! And welcome 🙂 She is adorable! It looks like she likes treats and likes toys and likes offering behavior: so fun!!!!
>>The last thing we trainee was pick things up in the mouth so there was some residual from that which made me laugh.>>
Yes, they always remind us of the other things we have trained 🙂 So you can play with this so it is feet-only by elevating it so it is more of a step up onto it, or making it heavy by putting something in it (so it is not easily picked up), or by marking sooner, so it is more about the movement towards it with feet not mouth. Or all of the above 🙂
One thing that might make it even easier is that you don’t need to click and then say get it. The get it marker is both the click and the location of the reward, so you won’t get any looking up at you (which happens after the click) and she will look to where the reward is more (and will really strengthen the ‘get it’ which is such a useful marker!!)
Great job here! I am excited to see more!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterWelcome!! Terriers rule!!! I’m excited to learn more about Tommy 🙂
TracyTracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
>Well, the world is burning and I had to take the day off to avoid potentially murdering anyone at my male-dominated office. This is after spending Wednesday & Thursday in pretty much a fugue state. 🙁 I hope you’re hanging in there – thank goodness for dogs.>>
Sending thoughts of strength!!! I am currently surviving because I stripped all social media off my phone (amazing how many times I reach for it to look at stupid social media) and all news outlets off the phone too. And now I am parked in a field at a 4 day flyball seminar with my puppy, so my mind is completely dissociated from the dumpster fire of the world. Sigh. But the puppy did spectacular things yesterday and his ability to focus and DO THE THING while other dogs are running and in front of a crowd at only 9 months old? Super happy-making. And Contraband got to race against the fastest dog in North America and he thought it was the Best.Day.Ever. (Also, flyball people have a lot of wine and snacks.)
Looking at the Jimster’s videos:
He is doing so well!!!!!!!! It is like these young dog know that we humans needed a pick-me-up this week.The play before the first sequence looked good! You can set him up a little further from jump 1 so he can stride into it more powerfully.
One spot to be more connected is on the send to 4 at 1:01 (don’t point forward ahead of him because it turns your shoulders away from the line – he saved your butt there :)) He didn’t save you at 1:48 because you had turned away a lot. So keep your hand pointing to his nose as you send. Your hand can travel with his nose and end up pointing forward as he passes you, but if you hand points to the jump while he is still behind you then the send info gets a bit muddy. This is basically what you did at 2:36 and it was great!!
He is responding really well to the skip cues (he missed it at 1:55 because it was not clear in terms of line of motion after you fixed the send to 4)
I don’t think you need to turn your shoulders away that much, as it creates too much pull off the line. You can cue the turn on the jump before the tunnel (his name is probably all you need), then let him see a little turn to the line you want and show him your threadle arm, and keep the threadle arm up as you stay connected and move to the tunnel threadle entry.
This should make it easier to handle without as much pull and push on the line.2nd video: It is really fun to see the teamwork blossoming here! Great connection throughout – nice connection on the send to the pinwheel jump and then excellent use of your ‘left’ verbal cue and shoulder turn to get him to turn beautifully to the jump and not take the tunnel! YAY!!!
3rd video:
He is getting so good at his forward focus on the first jump! That did not take him long to learn at all! Super!The first run was almost perfect – your cues through the pinwheel and to the tunnel and then through the pinwheel to the left turn was beautifully connected and well timed. The 2nd run had a little less connection on the pinwheel jump so he didn’t take it first time through but you were perfect at 1:53 and he got it.
The skip cue at :54 were late in that he didn’t know he was turning and your motion was very forward
You gave a bigger earlier pull at 2:01 so he got it – but you can add in a turn cue on the jump before the tunnel threadle so he is more ready for the threadle cues (and then you won’t have to pull as much).The timing of the left cue is when he lands from the pinwheel jump, and that is perfect. So the turn cue before the threadle (probably just his name, because it is not a tight left turn) should be at about the same time, then you can start the tunnel threadle cue before takeoff.
The RR game went well! You had the toy on the ground here and he was able to move away from it pretty easily. Yes, try not to call him but he was fine without that too. You can add in having him do things before he gets the marker to go back to it.
In this session, you were saying “let’s go get it” which kind of merges 2 markers. “Get it” would be great for a placed reward in a training session. And let’s go works best for when you are leaving the toy completely outside the ring, on a table or something – I think he is ready to see that and you can add in moving away, doing tricks, even lining up and taking a jump.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
I think you will have fun on Lori’s courses! They are very flowing for the youngsters with lots of tunnels 🙂
Looking at the videos:
For the RR with the toy – I agree that is great that the toy has higher value!! To help him, you can put it up on something higher so it is a bit more out of the picture Since the toy drive has really blossomed, you can make it really easy for him by putting it further away 🙂What is your toy marker word (it can be the same as food) – yo were saying “get your toy” which could sound a lot like “get it” for the thrown reward on course, so you can use something more distinct like “toy!” Or the same marker you use for food. The marker doesn’t indicate food or toy, it indicates that you will now be heading to the reward station for the reward 🙂
Looking at the tunnel sequence:
>>I think his attention was divided too because when I came out to move the stuff around I saw that a rabbit had been killed in the agility ring and there were…ahem…small remnants I had to clean up first.>
Oh dear, that would indeed be challenging!! Doing one rep was good because he got exposure to working in a highly distracting environment. Even after sniffing around, the distraction of dead rabbit parts was probably really hard! But he was able to engage with the lotus ball really well! And he ran the full sequence really well!! He read the difference in the 3 cues (straight, no tunnel, tunnel threadle) brilliantly!
In the 3 spots where he had a question on what to do on the jump, he was actually getting blind cross info (you looked forward, turned your shoulders forward, which looked like the beginning of a blind) so he was correctly changing sides. In 2 of the spots you were able to reconnect quickly enough to get him back to the jump (1:11 and 1:30 – you can see the accidental blind really clearly at 1:30!) At 1:18 he didn’t get the info in time so he tried but picked up the other side of the jump.
So remember not to just run fast – run connected and close to the lines on these pinwheels.
And getting success with dead rabbit distractions and ending on one rep was GREAT dog training!
Empty Hands looked great! He was definitely like “why are your hands empty” at first but then he got into it because you had some much energy, Then a nice simple blast up the line was perfect. He did great on both! You can add the empty hands concept into the other sequences, sometimes running with both hands empty to add that challenge in there too. I think he will be fine with it.
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning! I am think this went really well! The only real questions were handler timing questions which is exactly what we want with a young fast dog.
I think most of it went perfectly: Fabulous connection! Her jumping is looking good!!! There was one bar down when you did a big decel at 3:45 so she was preparing to turn, then you sent her ahead to the tunnel so she tried to adjust over the bar (unsuccessfully). Keep moving in that situation 🙂
She is driving for her jumps, digging in to get them even if you were a little late, and not running past. Big happy dance!
The exit line connection back to her after the blind at :34 was great , that was really a super strong moment!
Loved your big rewarding engagement after you both rocked the second run!!!
There were 2 spots that needed some timing sorted out:
The turn 3 to 4 without going straight was a spot where she read you perfectly – if you were facing forward as she took off for 3? She went straight. Trust me that you will LOVE that skill when you begin the big fancy layering craziness of the high level international stuff!!!!
When you turned to 4 before she took off for 4? She turned too.
The trick to that timing is that she needs to know that you would like a turn on 3, and that info needs to happen before she needs to make a takeoff position. Ideally, that happens as she exits the tunnel. That is when you can start to deliver the turn cues for 3 – that would include bit of decel in this situation, shoulder turn, and for her, a brake arm (both hands up while shoulders turn away) is a valid addition.
And you can’t just say “jump”, because, well, there are 4 possibilities and they are all jumps 🙂 So as you deliver the physical cues, you can be saying “left” or her name softly.
That will look radically different from the forward-facing acceleration where she was correctly running straight. You don’t need to accelerate to get close to jump 4 because that looks like a straight line cue.
When you had success, you had the shoulder turns earlier so she say it just before takeoff. Getting them even soon will help guarantee success 🙂
I got photos of all that! Check it out here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DeqKdcde0oz0zNLVUx1Oha28ki9TYLFauRYiyKXvuqc/edit?usp=sharingThe other spot that was hard for the timing was the RC at the end.
For the RC setup – one thing to add is to call her and give her a turn cue before she enters the tunnel (1:23) Good rewarding on that first RC rep because she didn’t know there was a turn and no physical cue like the blind to create it. If she gets a strong turn cue before entering the tunnel, setting up the RC will be easier.
The other thing to add is getting closer to the RC diagonal, which takes you to the center of the bar of the RC jump.
At 1:54 – you had decel and then got onto the diagonal, but it was all the way out on the left turn wrap wing. She started to turn left then continued straight trying to sort out your acceleration
At the end, you did get on the RC diagonal and showed pressure to the center of the bar. You were a little far from it, so she didn’t read it til after takeoff (but then she got it and kept the bar up! Yay!!). Your switch verbal really helped too! I put screen shots into the slideshow of those too 🙂
To set the RC, you can use your position earlier on the sequence to get to a great RC spot here too: rather than get close to 5 then try to get to the RC diagonal, you can stay closer to 3! Send her away to 4, 5, 6 a you drive on a parallel line to the tunnel exit. That way as she exits the tunnel, you are able to be much closer to the RC diagonal to the center of the bar so she can see the info sooner.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>>this weekend we have a 1 ring trial that is outdoors that I signed her up for FEO on Sunday (day 2) of the trial. The date arrived so fast! EEEEEKKKKKK!
Should I do it!?>>See how she feels about the trial site. And see if she is interested in any toy there. And then decide 🙂 you can always do a quick zip in and out with the toy, even if it is not her total favorite thing yet 🙂
>> My plan is to (no startline) take off her leash, do a little volume dial and just run with her over a few jumps & play play play. Hopefully the course has the tunnel positioned where we can get to it too.>>
Perfect!!!
>> I have new fur bungee toys that are scheduled to arrive tonight for her. Should I surprise her with it in the ring or let her see the toys ahead of time so I know she likes them?>>
Do a quick fun test to see if she has a new favorite toy and then save them for the ring.
>>Here is Bazinga practicing Remote reinforcement. >>
This looked awesome!!! She was fast and happy and engaged. You can totally do this at the practice jump too!
>> and to the trial site on Saturday.>>
Don’t try to cram or anything 🙂 just maybe try a little at the site and then make it all about play 🙂
About the reward prediction errors:
>>Do you think if I always give her a different, awesome treat before we go in the ring that it may help her want to go in the ring?>>
Yes! That can totally work, especially the first few times. Then it becomes the norm 🙂 so the variety of treats will be highly motivating for rehearsing not just dopamine spikes 🙂 but more importantly, you’ll see that the conditioned response changes into a super positive one, meaning the motivation builds because she is so pumped up to be in the ring 🙂
Let me know if that makes sense! And keep me posted about how this weekend goes!!Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>These distances between jumps much bigger than she is used too. It nearly killed me- the answer was when I gt it right so did she. >
Yes! The important detail is: when your arms were down and she could see connection, she was excellent. You can see this on rep 1, 1-2-3-4-5 for example. And also at 2:19-2:26.
When your arms were way above your head and she could see connection from under your arm? She found the line with only a few questions but it was hard for you to run. You can see that on the pinwheel jump on the last rep.
When your arm was pointing ahead or moving up and down? She had questions and missed jumps or bars went down. You can see that at 1:19- 1:20, 1:26, 2:17, and on the last run where she dropped the bar after the tunnel.
>Arousal did go up as she was running faster .>
Yes, but she was still perfectly engaged and focused on her work. Yay!
>> we missed the far jump several times as my arm came up so disconnect and didnt run hard eougn – her commitment point is later than fusion not really a surprise. >>
It was definitely a high arm question – it blocks her connection and turns your shoulders and feet away from the line, which pulls her off the line. She doesn’t have that question when your arm is low and she sees connection. And then I think you will find her commitment point to be similar to Fusion – it won’t be as early yet, because she is so inexperienced.
>But her understanding of distance and obstacle commitment has improved heaps since last did some distance.>
Totally agree! She is looking great!!
>> so now I need to get my shit together to help her.>
Yes – it is all about your arms – don’t use them up and down to point ahead as that blocks a lot of the info.
One other thing on this sequence:
For the tunnel threadle, you were giving her a turn cue on the jump before it which is great! Then, use a threadle arm to give her the rest of the info and run directly to the tunnel entry you want. You were pulling her too far off the line and. Then trying to send her back with the dog side arm, so she was confused and was spinning. A direct line of motion and a threadle arm to cue the in AND out to the tunnel will make it much smoother.
Also, try not to reach for the toy in your pocket – that was happening on the 2nd run and she was looking at you do that, then you pointed forward so she was unsure of where to be on the line.
Nice work here! Keep those arms down!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi! It sounds like Lift is having quite the New York adventure!!! Fun!
And great job building in decompression – travel is stressful, and add in all of the stimuli bombarding her brain… decompression will be a huge help!
The RR session here was great! There was a lot of stuff that she had to process: new place, stuff in the environment, people nearby… she was very successful 😀
Yes, she turned the other way on the first cue but in challenging environments you can make her cues bigger: louder verbals, bigger hand motions, to help break through the processing challenge.
After she settled into the environment, she was great! Leaving the room was clever 😀 she looked at the rewards on the way back, but then she made a great decision. Super!!!
Great job here! Keep me posted on how the rest of your NY adventure goes!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>>Hunter and I did the pattern games when we got to the field. He was very engaged.>>
Yay!!! That’s awesome!
>> I am working those and not letting him run and play when we get there. >>
Yes, that might help get even more engagement: the agility place is where you engage and not running off to party 🙂
>> After the pattern games I walked him on leash to decompress and then a couple of volume dial games and a couple of jumps. He stayed engaged the whole time. >>
This is great! Sounds like he was terrific!
>> He really wanted to come out to work with me. That was good. >>
A little jealousy goes a long way LOL!
>> I reset the jumps and started the sequences with Hunter after some more pattern games and volume dial games. I did the volume dial games in-between when we moved around the field. He did very well with it. I used go swim in-between but think I need to use it more. That is his number one reward to play in the hose or pool. >>
This is all lovely! And it builds in a lot of engagement and speed and excitement.
>> His bark on cue is still only at home.>>
No worries! He will sort that out and then you’ll want him to bark less haha
>>Setting up sequences today with another dog coming to the house so big distractions and I plan big rewards.>>
Super!!! I’m looking forward to hearing how it goes!!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterHi!
>>In class when the collar comes off he automatically goes into a sit for his start line stay. >>
That would totally explain why he didn’t want to tug in that moment. It wasn’t part of the plan! Lol!
>> My thought is to have him tug on the leash when he comes through the gate to keep him engaged and then take the collar off, do couple spins, and have him bounce to keep engagement. Your thoughts.>>
Yes, that’s a good plan. And he will give you feedback – some dogs find that perfect, some dogs find that not enough, some dogs find that too much. We will ask him by doing it and see what he says 😀
>Have to admit my blinds suck period. It is a long work in progress with him. >(
Your blinds don’t suck at all!!!! You just needed to be a stride sooner. Everything else was really strong, especially the connection back to him after the blind.
On the video you added here, that blind can be sooner too. One way to be sooner is to bring your arms in as you do the blind, holding them closer to your ribs. That will allow you to start sooner and show the mew connection sooner too! Everything else looked lovely, especially the connection.
>Thinking about POW POW POW!!!>
I love it!!!
Keep me posted 🙂
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning! This was a great session 🙂
Video 1:
Super nice toy and tugging on the way to the line!The run was lovely lovely lovely especially your connection. You are connecting brilliantly on all of these runs!
You can reconnect a shade sooner when you finish the blind on the tunnel exit so he sees the new side before he exits (and call him so he is turning to you before he exits as well). He was a little wide on the tunnel exit, so earlier timing will make that smoother.Video 2 – either this is a duplicate of video 1, or you nailed it the exact same way twice 🙂 Let me know if it was supposed to be a different video.
Video 3: interesting how he didn’t want to tug with the leash coming off at first here – is there where the collar was on? (possibly a conditioned response to the leash, maybe usually he gets food in that situation). You did a wonderful job getting him ready to run though, with his tricks and dance moves and singing!! He was FLYING!!!
Your connection was great again here. Yay!
You can trust his line commitment here to get the BC earlier: send to the tunnel from further away so you are more ahead of him as he approaches the jump after it. Then as he lands from the jump after the tunnel, tell him about the pinwheel jump (verbal, connection, motion like you had here) and start the blind so it is finished before he takes off. At :46 you were still watching him takeoff on the original side, so the turn on landing was a little wide because the BC started late. Nice connection to get him to the new side and the ending looked great!Video 4: whoa! He nailed the threadle cue to the other end of the tunnel! Like a rocket!!!! I love it!!!!
One thing you did that made him so successful here was between 4 and 5, you decelerated and turned your shoulders to the correct end of the tunnel. So when he took off for 5, he was on the side of the bar closer to the line you wanted and not looking at the wrong end of the tunnel (and your threadle arm was visible too). So even though he barked (excitement, probably), he had a fabulous line to the correct end of the tunnel.And another click/treat to you for fabulous connection 🙂
And he did really well with his treats out of the ring too! Super!!!
Video 5: he might be getting tired now, and the tugging was not as interesting to him. This is where you can either change to a different toy or food. He still ran brilliantly!
He had no trouble knowing when it was the jump or the tunnel threadle or the straight tunnel that you wanted because you were very clear on your cues in terms of timing and connection.
One thing to consider is clarifying your verbals – in video 4, you used ‘come’ for the tunnel threadle. In this video, you used it to get the left turn to the jump, and “here” for the tunnel threadle.The physical cues were excellent so he got it, but with his speed we don’t want to rely on physical cues only. Since ‘come’ and ‘here’ probably mean ‘turn towards da momma’, you can add a ‘tunnel threadle’ verbal that means ‘go to the other end of the tunnel’. I use ‘kiss kiss kiss’ 🙂 and it means something very different than the turn cues on the jump.
Last video:
Nice job getting the tricks before starting!!! At :27, you can give the ‘tunnel’ cue sooner – when he is landed from 4 and looking at 5, you can start it. You started it when he was over 5, and he was looking at you a bit so he ticked the bar there.He was great about getting his leash back on and going to the cookies at the end of the run! NICE!!! When you are working on sequences (especially in a class or seminar) you can have the reward with you to reward on course too. But being able to work this brilliantly without the food in the ring is going to help trials too!
Great job here!!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning!
>I did arrange to go to my mother’s yard this weekend. We can do some simple sequences, she has never been there. I was planning on using it for our teeter tour but we are a ways away from that.>>
That s perfect!
>I really like your idea of a simple one – lower level than we are. Ooh that gave me an idea 😉>
Yay! I love running at a lower level – it takes all the pressure off of baby dogs because the environment is hard enough. And we always learn something, plus I never end up having to explain why I don’t want to do 15 threadle wraps in a row with a baby whippet LOL!!! I am long past the days where I wanted all of my dogs to get to masters level seminars as quickly as possible. Novice is FUN!!!! My current favorite young dog instructor is Casey Keller. She is an up-and-coming seminar presenter, and she has experience with Border Collies but also small dogs (Sheltie and Cocker Spaniel). We’ve had a grand time at 3 of her baby dog seminars now, and I am *picky* about seminars LOL!!!!
>For these reps I left the collar no collar out completely. I wanted to focus on handling properly. >
Perfectly fine! Those engagement games are mentally hard for the dogs, and they do not need to be played every single time. They are like weave poles: train them a bit so the dogs learn them and love them, but it is definitely not good to do 10,000 reps 🙂
Looking at the video – super nice session! One thing that is developing is that your cues are really sounding different – not just because the words are different, but the pitch/volume/rhythm is distinct. I believe that really helps the dogs!
Sequence 1: great!! Lovely connection!
>I still follow the send to jump 4 with a big arm. 😣
Yes, you arm moved forward on the send at :14 but it happened after you connected and sent her. Your arm followed her nose (and the physics of movement caused it to go a little high but she had no questions). The trouble starts when we fling our arms ahead of the dogs without connection, and we look ahead at the jump. In this case, you had connection on the send and your arm moved with her: worked great!
You had less arm at 1:12 but also more decel as you were trying to keep the arm down, so I think the arm movement was actually more effective on a more extended line like this (as long as you keep that connection as you begin the send cue). Let me know if that names sense of it I need more coffee to explain it 🙂
At the end of the sequence:
She is super fast through tunnels so you will want to get to the BC sooner by calling her sooner – don’t wait to finish the blind to call her, you can call her as soon as she is approaching the tunnel. I thought you physically hustled to position beautifully, but you can add calling sooner to give her a heads-up that there is a cue to look for on tunnel exit.Good job on the RC at 1:18, being patient even when she fell (poor girlie!). The RC line was good and nice job driving her to last jump.
She is probably banking the tunnel up high, so with the tunnel bags down low on the ground, she is slipping higher up. You might need to get some of the wide straps perhaps, to help keep the higher part of the tunnel secure too.
And great job getting her pumped up for a last run – that is what her brain will sleep on 🙂 Yay! She is really understanding the pinwheel line so you can send her earlier (starting at landing of the jump after the tunnel) so you can be done with it before she takes off for the pinwheel jump. You were a stride late (she was taking off before you were finished with the blind) so the turn was a stride wide, but your exit line connection at 2:51 was GREAT so she got right back on the line and your spin at 2:52 was fantastic! That got a nice tight turn and put you miles ahead of her. Super!!!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning! This went super well!
Great job adjusting the tunnel threadle cue so that you got rid of rotating too much (pulling her in and out with your feet rotating).
Rotating in and out can actually result in the off course when you send her back out, if you are not n the perfect line – this is what happened at :07 and :35 and 1:15 because when you rotated back out, it totally cued the entry of the tunnel she went to.
You moved over on a better line at 1:03 and 1:28 and so that got the correct tunnel entry even with the rotation.
When you were on that line and didn’t really rotate like 1:45 , she had the best line – not too much pull away then push back, not too much foot rotation, she was lovely.
The rep at 2:08 was GREAT – not real foot rotation, just clear cues and great line. She did a great job!
You had really good timing of the “left” verbals there, and also on the reps where you where you didn’t want the tunnel at all (no problem, she never looked at the tunnel on those). She read your shoulders and feet great especially at 2:59 – great position and great job with the left verbal there!! I am using the word “great” a lot here but it is true LOL!!!!
I love how she did all the cues at 4:04, getting the correct obstacle each time through with no questions. Well done!
And yay for you for the blind on the last rep! You used your position on sending into the pinwheel very effectively so you didn’t have to sprint to it, and she could see the turn was coming. Then you were able to get the blind finished and re-connected as she was in the air and your line was very clear, so she had a lovely turn.
Her only question on the bigger sequences was when you were sending her straight to the tunnel again – she checked in a little “ARE YOU SURE?!?!” Haha!! But that was likely due to not being able to fully accelerate yet and relying on verbals to override your steady pace. That question will go away when your knee is cleared for full running.
One thought on this sequence you can try: You can also wrap her to her left on 1 – it is a sweeter line to 2, and adds challenge to ignore the off course jump.
I realize if you have AKC in your future with Roux, you will want to practice this skill (all the skills, really) at a 2 stride distance (21 feet approximately between the tunnel exit and the jumps, and center-to-center on the jump). She is doing 4 strides here and it is fast and fun, but I don’t want either of you to be surprised at how quickly the obstacles will appear on the line when the distances are shorter because it changes your timing and her mechanics for jumping.
I am always too lazy to move the tunnel, so you can move the jumps in closer to it!
Great job here!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning and welcome!!! Feel free to ask as many questions as you like 🙂
I am excited that you are here and I am looking forward to seeing Sadie Mae! She sounds adorable and super fun too! I am a big fan of mixes too, and you will see several mixes as the demo dogs here 🙂
I am glad the pre-games are going well! because she is young and small, you can do them sitting on the ground or on something low to make it easier. She doesn’t have to be perfect – we are looking for “pretty good” and “roughly right” for now 🙂
>>How often (times per day) should we be working on training/games?>>
Once, maybe twice a day, for about 2 minutes each time. Training is mentally tiring for baby dogs so we don’t want to overdo it. And, you can do different things each session to keep the variety in the training (which keeps it fun!) One thing you will notice here is that latent learning is powerful. What I mean by that is your session might go well, or it might be bad (it happens, I try to show all my bloopers LOL!) and it is fine – but the real learning happens when they sleep. So we give the pups a day or two before repeating a game, and the learning really blossoms. It is like they practice it in their dreams LOL! But it is really their brain doing all the work during sleep 🙂
Have fun!
Tracy
Tracy Sklenar
KeymasterGood morning and welcome!! I am excited to see him now that he is all ready to roll! And I am sure we can add teenager twists for him too, to spice things up 🙂 His pre-games look awesome! When he was a baby puppy, these were much harder. I bet he is going to fly through the Baby Level of the games and we can really focus on the Advanced levels.
Have fun!
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