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Welcome! Bokeh is so fun 🙂 I love that we have 3 littermates here – it is so fun to watch them train!
Have a blast!
Tracy
This is so fun, it is like a family reunion!!!! Sazerac sounds like so much fun, and I love her name!! I am looking forward to seeing her!
Tracy
Hi!
>Coming up with the name was what convinced my spouse getting another dog was a good idea 🙂>
SMART! 🤣😂
> Cartwheel has simultaneously started nosing and pawing the target item (a little tile sample square) at the same time—is the pawing an issue that I should try to tighten up my criteria on to get only the nose touch (he is really good at doing them together)? Or is the pawing not an issue to try to eliminate for this? I don’t feel like the behavior is strong enough to be too picky but I also can see the pawing is becoming part of what he thinks is the way to do this!>>
I have 2 answers for you:
– based on where we take this target game in a few weeks, it doesn’t matter right now if he is hitting with nose & foot at the same time. The foot smack will go away very quickly in that game.– it is a great opportunity with a baby dog to play with ways to isolate a behavior and not get any other behavior… without telling him he is wrong. Since he is 4 month old a toy poodle, I am guessing he is very small (and very cute haha) which probably means your hand is pretty low which makes the paw smack easy. So you can play with ways to isolate the nose – this can include changing the angle of your hand, so the target is a little higher and tilted downward, so he has to reach up a bit to nose bop it. Let me know if that helps! And you can also mark/reward a little early: just before his nose touches it, and before his feet move – and you can even toss the treat away so you have time to be ready as he is moving back to you after eating it.
I do know that small dogs have very fast feet, so it is a fun challenge to get them to not wiggle the feet or smack something with a paw 🙂
Keep me posted!
TracyHello and welcome! Your intro of Quill shines with your love for him! I am so happy for you, he sounds like such a fun little guy!! I am looking forward to meeting him here 🙂
Tracy
Hello! Good to see you here after having fun watching Barry on the BrainCamp site!!! He is super fun and you are doing a wonderful job with him!
Tracy
Welcome back!!! I have such fun memories of you and Dora 🙂 I am excited to meet little Roy – he must be SO CUTE!!!!!
Have fun!
TracyWelcome! Hooray for Papillons! She sounds like a blast!!
You will see 2 Papillons show up in the demo videos here 🙂 but they were born in 2012 and 2014 respectively, so I don’t have many foundation videos of them. Keep me posted on how Poppy is doing with the games!Tracy
Welcome! I am glad you are here!
I don’t think 10 months is behind at all – PoweR will have a little more physical and mental maturity, so he can really power through the games pretty quickly!And I understand the struggle with motivation – our main goal is for you and PoweR to have a GREAT time playing together, then the rest will come easily 💓
Tracy
Hello and welcome! I think it is fun that you kept littermates 🙂
> They are 7 months old. I’m not sure how I’ll be allowed to post or ask questions on both girls. Not sure if there’s a partial purchase for the working spot/live spot (if any are left). I’ll be working primarily Ignita, as she’s my focus. Astral is technically my husbands, but I’m doing all her training.>
We’ve never had someone with 2 pups in MaxPup! But we can handle it the same way we do for the CAMP classes:
– there are no more spots in the live classes, but you can alternate pups (work Ignita on one game, work Astral on the next game, then Ignita on the 3rd game).
– questions about pup #2 are totally allowed
– to post videos of pup #2, you can add a working spot for the 2nd pup for $100.Let me know what you think!
TracyHello and welcome!
To start a thread, you can scroll down to the bottom of the forum page – it is basically like starting an email (same form). Then we keep replying to your thread, so it keeps all of your stuff in the same spot 🙂Tracy
Hello and welcome! I love the unique name 🙂 Is that Gruffudd in the photo? So cute!!!! I am excited to see more!
Tracy
Welcome! It is super fun to see you here!!
I didn’t know that your Tribute is half-sister to Brandy’s Katniss – that is so fun! I am excited to here more 🙂Tracy
Wow, what a great run!! He was so fast and focused!!! SO MUCH to be proud of and excited about!!! Was this at Dynamic Dog Sports? I *almost* went to it, but just couldn’t get my act together in time. Sorry to have missed you!
I am very impressed with the layering and blinds! Yay! He continued straight out of that last tunnel because you showed forward motion and no turn info before he went in, so he was being a good boy. Great job with rewarding and continuing if there was a blooper! It looks like he had a grand time 🙂 His only questions were when you were pointing with a high arm ahead at obstacles, because it blocked connection and turned your shoulders away from the line you wanted. So a fun challenge would be to run with your arms always pointing to his nose and never higher than your hips. Did I ever show you the magnet fingers video? If not, here it is:
Great job here!
Tracy
