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Good morning! Hope you had a fun vacation after the huge success at the Invitational!!
Great job with the moving target pre-game! Lots of rewards helped his stay be super solid and it looks like he was looking at the toy and not at you when you released.
The toy was nice and long, so you didn’t have to bend over at all either. And he could easily scoop it up while running: perfect! Is it a sheep toy tied to a hollee roller? LOL!
Adding the jump was no trouble at all for him. Super!
Since this went so well, you can start with the set point game when it gets posted tomorrow.
>I have been working on his sit mechanics on a sit platform as well as his stays. I hope the improvement is visible!>
OMG yes!!! Big difference, his feet are nice and tight under him!!!!! Yay!
>I’m really conflicted about using 2 different words for the wraps right/left.>
We can prioritize the verbals based on where you think his career will take him (and how courses might evolve in coming years). For now, you can do one wrap verbal and it is definitely possible to add another later on. But, if you have a wrap verbal that means ‘towards me’, you will also need one that means ‘away from me’. There is no escape from all the verbals lately especially as the courses get bigger and there is more layering needed.
Great job here! Have fun!
Tracy
Good morning and welcome back!!! We might need a teenage dog support group – my pup is 9 months too LOL!!! I am excited to see Quill play these games!
Tracy
Good morning and welcome back!!! It will be fun to get back in gear – I am sure Gruff is ready to work & play (he is always ready :))
Have fun!!
Tracy
Hello and welcome back!! This will be great fun with Tarot: she looked lovely on the video! We can really focus on commitment to jumps & lines when she is ahead as well as add more distance too! FUN!!!!
You will be busy with both classes, so be sure to set a timer so each dog gets a short turn 🙂 Have fun!
Tracy
Hi!
With one working spot, you can alternate videos – Bandit get videos for one game, Copper gets videos for a different game, etc 🙂T
Good morning!
I have been secretly hoping that you would start training Lew in agility 🙂 I am glad that your hubby saw his brilliance and agreed to a career in sports 🙂
>We haven’t done much by way of puppy-puppy foundations for sport-life up to now but he really gets excited to train.>
Letting a tiny pup grow up a bit before training is perfect!
>He is quick to talk back if he is frustrated and that is a first for me.>
I like that he is an effective communicator 🙂
>He has finally decided that he likes food, so that changes the game for me!>
Perfect! That does make life so much easier in training.
>Same pajamas, different puppy! >
Classic!!!! We should do a compilation of the pajamas over the years LOL!!! Mine are also the same haha
The pregames are going great! He is definitely engaged and happy to offer! And I see what you mean about him communicating his anger when the treats are not coming fast enough LOL!
He is SUPER quick in his movements – he moves towards the prop then smacks you with his foot LOL!! So you can reward him for moving towards it/looking at it, getting the click/reward in early and before he smacks you. Then you will start getting more of the foot smacks you were getting at the end of the session.
The next step here is to begin working your way up to standing: I think a good intermediate step is having you in a chair and if he is fine with that, you can go to standing in the same session.
Nose touch video:
Look at his toy drive! Wow!!! Super!! And he dove on the toy at the end even after all those cookies. Yay!The nose touches went really well!
Bearing in mind that he doesn’t have a long nose at all, you can read a lot of moving towards the target. It looks like he was touching it nicely here but as we add more speed in upcoming games, he might not want his eyes that close to the target is it fine to reward just before he gets to it.Great job here! He looks awesome!
Tracy
Good morning and welcome!!!! Bandit is so tiny compared to Copper! But they are both adorable 🙂
Bandit has lovely toy drive! You might want to tie a couple of toys together so he can tug with one end of the toy on the ground while you are tugging and eventually standing. He might still try to come up a little higher on the toy which is perfectly fine, but at least we are giving him option to get low and pull back on the toy. And it will save your back from bending over a lot while you tug 🙂 The toy in the 2nd video was longer and it looked easier to tug on when you were standing.
The nose target went well! Was it a post it note? I approve LOL!!!!
Part of this session was about sorting out how to structure the session – keeping the toy hidden for now really helped him focus on the target. And you did a great job of moving the treats slowly so he could lock onto the rewards and where you were placing them – brilliant! He won’t need that for long, but he is only 9 weeks old so the shaping sessions will include a lot of teaching him where to look for the rewards for a bit.
I LOVE his happy exhuberance in the forward focus driving to the toy session! SO CUTE!!! He was brilliant about looking at the toy, and seemed very happy to let you line him up and hold his collar (side note: Papillons and Pap mixes sometimes do NOT like the collar hold, so we make it super fun really early in training).
Since he was brilliant here, you can add a bit of duration: throwing the toy and letting him stare at it for another second or two before letting him go. And you can also add distance by throwing it further.
He is not running away with it, so after he gets the toy you can help him come back by enticing him back to you or even showing him a 2nd toy: we will be working on retrieves in this class and it starts with ‘don’t run away with the toy’ LOL
When you’ve got a bit more distance, we will also get you standing up for this game because it leads into adding handler motion.
The foot target video also looked strong! He got thoughtful about interacting with the object which is good! You can add in a tug break after every 3 or 4 cookies to keep his excitement high and to continue building the skill of going from food to toys to food.
For this game, he probably needs one more session to really get the foot snack going 🙂 then you can dive into the first ‘prop game’ posted today.
Great job!
TracyGood morning to you and Josie!!!! I am excited to see her!
The body of the intro here was blank – let me know if you posted something and it disappeared?
Have fun!
Tracy
Yes! That is right! I should have recognized the name!! She is so fun!
She did great with the Focus Forward here. Super!!! It was a really fun, high energy session – and short & sweet too. Super!
Since she had no trouble with it, you can start to add a bit more: after you toss the toy, wait a few seconds before releasing her to it, to get more duration on the forward focus. Try to be quiet when you are getting more duration because if you are talking, she might look at you.
You can also throw it further for her to run to even more. You can take the game outside to give yourself more room to run 🙂 Outside is harder for more pups, so you can start with what you did here and then add more distance on the throw.
Great job :)
TracyGood morning and welcome to class! Rusty is SO CUTE!!!!! And a terrific worker too!
>but food is his thing to the point of over-arousal.>
No worries! Part of what we do here is balance the rewards out so he knows exactly how to earn them and won’t be over-aroused when the food is present.
>I learned a lot about Rusty from these two shaping exercises.>
That is fantastic – these pre-games are not really about getting the behavior, they are more about figuring out how each pup works and how to best shape them. Good for you for noticing that the original setup was too hard and switching back to one where he can be successful!
He did really well with the toy play! In both sessions to get even more toy play, you can be standing up so he has more room to grab the toy – and to maintain the squiggling around and moving the toy around like you did here, you can tie two long toys together so you can be chasing the toy to play with it, and you won’t need to be on the ground or bending over.
This will also help when you go back to the toy after the treats: you can get him chasing it by standing up (nd picking up the target) and dragging the long toy away from him to chat and tug on.
He offered foot targeting brilliantly here! You did a great job shifting from rewarding at the target to using your ‘get it’ market (click/treat to you for using it consistently!!)
Since he is a foodie, you can start teaching him to ignore the food in order to get it by having a few treats in your hand. That will make the rewards quicker while also helping him tune out the treats in order to smack the target 🙂
The nose touch target also went great: he offered the behavior immediately! Good pup!!!! You can have 4 or 5 treats in your hand here too – that will help him not look up at you while you get the treat out (and builds in a bit of impulse control to ignore the food :))
He was in food mode at the end of the nose target session, so this is where you can get the toy play going but moving away from where you had the food (and all the food smells :)) and let him chase the toy you are dragging 🙂
As these games get more and more action -for the kitchen, you can put a cheap rubber backed rug down so he can move fast without slipping.
Great job here!!!
Tracy
