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Since she loves tennis balls, you can cut a hole in the hollee roller and put the ball inside it. That way she can play with the tennis ball without potentially hurting her shoulders trying too grab it of the ground at top speed.
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>>I do something like this when JJ goes to eat. She is not allowed to move her feet when her bowl is put down or it comes back up.>>
This is perfect! You can use her food bowl game as a lateral lead out game 🙂
The zig zags are looking really good!! Yes, she bounced all of them except the one rep at :20 in video 3 (if that happens, you can repeat the rep and see if she can adjust the footwork).
My only suggestion is to line her up next to the wing just like the zigzag game in maxPup 2 and not facing the center of the bar, so she is turning a bit sideways over the first bar and not going on a straight line. That will truly get the side to side movement we see on serps and slices and backsides.Great job here!!
TracyHi!
For the grids – yes, starting her closer as you mentioned will help her power through the line because she will come in pushing from her rear. For now, lower the bars too – they are a shade to high so she is having a little trouble balancing (note how she was using a high tail to try to balance). Maybe a 6 inch bar for now, so she can get comfortable with the balance and with starting up close to jump 1.
The layering is going great!!!
She was surprised but the first tunnel cue (probably because the toy had ben thrown there) but then she was great on both sides! Super! You can add in a tight turn on the start wing and then cue th tunnel and NOT layering 🙂 And you can add a little bit of distance between the jump and tunnel so she is taking her layering still to the next level
Find the jump game is also looking good! You can tuck in even closer to the tunnel, so she can drive ahead of you on the “GO!” Moments and also so you can get on the RC lines even more immediately.
Thanks for leaving her bark/lunge moment in the video!
Her bark/lunge at the person & dog is an anxiety behavior (the best defense is a good offense, for example). You can see the anxiety in her lowered body, pinned ears, and uncertainty as to whether she should go forward or back. Getting mad at her might suppress some of the barking/lunging but don’t reduce the anxiety, so she will still bark/lunge.
So when you see any potential triggers approaching, like a golden or a stranger appearing – stop the sequencing, for example, so go into the pattern games from MaxPup 1. Don’t wait for her to be triggered, start it as soon as you are aware the person or dog is there. If she is already reacting, you can just gently go get her collar (but not correct her by the collar as that adds anxiety – we just want to add distance), move her further away, and then start the pattern game.
Separately, however, you can have her on leash doing the pattern games with super high value food, so she learns to ignore the people appearing or dogs that make her uncomfortable. That will reduce the anxiety and the bark/lunge will go away. We want her to be very fluent with the pattern game and have lots or practice ignoring people and dogs.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Great seeing you too! Congrats on all your success!!! And Contraband says thank you for the good thoughts, he is feeling better.>>I was so happy with this session.>>
SAME! It was fabulous! SUPER high rate of success – your handling was really clear and she was really driving to find the jumps.
She did really well with the one jump serp. And also great with the 2 jumps. She had a total of 2 questions:
– She missed the jump at 1:08 when you were too far ahead (past the 2nd jump) so the serp cue was not that clear. She was great with all the other reps when she can see you in serp position between the uprights.
– at 1:36 after the serp jump, you turned forward so she passed jump 2. Compare to 1:47 when you kept your shoulders open and she was perfect 🙂
Adding running was hard so you got some interesting jump form on the first rep but then she sorted it out perfectly. Super!
So you can add in the tunnel now. That adds more speed for her so you can dial back your speed and start with th jumps a little angled so she can be successful.
Great job!!!
Tracy
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You can tweak the game to get the benefit without any potential risk:Lower the teeter so the highest end is maybe 2 feet off the ground. Prop it up like the mountain climber and do everything the same… but if they get a little wild, there is no giant leap off the teeter. You can also use a treat at the top of the board that they have to lick (like cream cheese) so you can get to the end then gently help them turn around to come off the plank.
Let me know if that helps!
Tracy
>>Forget all the nice things I said about him. He just peed on the bed.
HAHA!!! Teenage boys… LOL!
He did well slamming the board around here! To really amp up his love for it… do 1 rep for a giant reward then walk away and go do something else 🙂 We want him to want the teeter a WHOLE LOT so less is more 🙂
You can now move to lining him up at your side to have him jump on right at the end of the board, facing target position.
He is not quite ready to go up it while it was moving so if he tries to do that, stop him, give him a treat, and pick him up, We can add the mountain climber game without movement to get him happy with the height.
Great job 🙂
TracyHi!
He was really on fire here!! Yay!!Go looks good! Nice job with the connection and thrown toy!
For the FC wrap – he had a refusal there, so you can add more connection to him as he takes the first jump and more deceleration into the 2nd jump. You were disconnected (looking ahead, so he was looking at you a bit) and slammed on the brakes so he didn’t take the jump. The transition from acceleration to decel will definitely help with the commitment.
Good job with the backside! A little more connection will help with that too to get him to commit even more independently: more eye contact with your arm back will really support the line.
Fluffy blinds –
>>No idea why I am throwing my arm in the air on these pinwheels. Just need it low & back, right?>>
Yes, you had a little extra arm movement which blocked some connection so also yes: arm low and back to really show the connection will support the lines.
He was very excited to be playing for the toy! Yay! You can line him up at your side or with a sit for cleaner starts – he didn’t really know when to start so he was leaping for the toy.
To get the blinds sooner, you can let him find the jump after the tunnel more independently with you more lateral (closer to what you did at 1:04) so you can get the BC started and finished before he takes off for the middle jump. On most of the reps you were starting it as he took off for the BC jump which made the reconnection on the exit a little late.
He also did really well with finding the jump after the blind when you made a BIG connection and maintained the connection to the middle jump. When you turned ahead of him and looked ahead, he (correctly) read it as a blind and change sides.
Great job staying in motion and rewarding him even when it wasn’t perfect!!!
>>What do you think about training him to lie down with front feet on this target, then moving that to the end of the teeter to get him going to the end?>>
I am glad he is liking the teeter movement now!!!
You can definitely teach him a fold-back down on the target (front feet on it) because that will produce a nice weight shift at the top of the board. He did that at the beginning of the session but when you moved your position, he started being a bit more sideways to face you. So you can put the target on a plank and shape it there, so that he has to stay straight (or he will fall off the plank :))
Great job here!!
Tracy
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Yes, sometimes it is good to rehearse these games with he adult dog, to get the mechanics. I am sure Gunnar was very happy to help!!!
This video is the ladder grid video, can you swap it out for the blinds?
>> Do we have some catchup time coming up, or are we going straight through?>>
We don’t have break weeks, but we have some quieter weeks mixed in and plenty of time at the end to catch up 🙂
T
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The diamond looks great!!! She is showing some fantastic commitment, so you can try to start your BC earlier: as she exits the tunnel and you are moving towards the wing, stay connected like you were and use your verbal to help commit. And when she is no later than halfway between the tunnel exit and wing, you can start the blind to be finished with it before she exits the wing. That will challenge her commitment and also tighten the turn even more.Race tracks looked awesome – she is a speedy little sports car!!!
You can do a race track – tight blind combo: get her into big extension with the race track the after the tunnel cue the tight blinds. That will challenge her to collect after massive extension.
Great job here!!!
Tracy
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Have you seen the hollee roller toy? Getting a giant one of those might be a better way to do ball-to-tug – the hole roller is tall enough that she scoop it up and retrieve it, as opposed to the ball which is much harder to pick up when she is going top speed (and I don’t want her to slip or twist). here is what the hollee roller looks like if you don’t have one 🙂I use the jumbo size!
T
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>>Is there by any chance a catch up week built into this class like some of your others have had?>>
There is no catch up week, per se, but there are quieter weeks and plenty of time at the end of class to finish up 🙂 Hope you are feeling better!!!!
Good job starting with the moving serps on one jump here before adding the sends. Motion makes everything harder as you saw on the first send – you made a great adjustment to slow down your motion but keep the excellent upper body position, so she was able to get it. As you add more motion (running!) you can also angle the jump to face her more – that way you can run faster and it will be easier for her to find the line. She was doing GREAT about serping as you ran more, sop the angled jumps can let you add more motion.
For the balance wraps, you can use more direct eye contact as you move through the FC. If you are moving close to the jump not using your hand to connect and not your eyes, she might not see the line as well and was considering taking the jump.
On the zig zags – this is a great game for both girls, I am glad you tried it with Nox too! As you add more distance away from her, you might need more cue drama, like doing a full FC (arm and leg!). And yes doing it faster and faster as she adds in more speed will help too – to challenge both of you to go faster, you can move the wings in closer – they looked to be maybe 5 feet here? If so, move them into 4 feet distances and see how she does!
>>Katniss played the Pill Bug game again, but she didn’t invite me. She thinks you should make update the rules of how to play, lol.>>
OMG what a nut! She is hilarious!!! She is doing the Inner Pillbug Game – super tight turns LOL!!!!!!! And Nox was angry because it was against the rules LOL!!!!!
Great job here :)
TracyHi!
Contraband says thank you for checking in on him and he is tired of being on rest LOL!!!The serps are looking really good! The 30 degree line was really like a real serp so he read it really well! Great job with your super clear upper body cues and connection, that seemed to make it really easy for him!!!
And he was happy to jump towards you but also was not going to slam into you (always a bonus with a large breed!)
I think you can add in a bit of the advanced level with the backside element now!
The food play looked super fun, he was very engaged! That will be something you can use outside the ring too – not with quite a much running back and forth, but on leash and kind of bouncing back and forth with the cookies can be a super fun way to get ready for the agility run!
Great job 🙂
TracyGood morning!
>>yes the stays were good when I did not record….>>
The best sessions and the best runs always happen when we are not recording LOL!! She did well with her stays here, so maybe she was just depleted the last time (depletion is real!).
The ladder session was strong here. I am not sure if I love the additional 6” or not – but it is too soon to tell 🙂 She had a to ‘reach’ a little more but let’s give her a couple of days off from the ladder then revisit it maybe over the weekend or next week to see how her brain wired the session in. The first session doesn’t always tell us a lot, it is the 2nd or 3rd session where we get the best feedback from the dog 🙂
On the threadle session – it is super important that she sees the in in physical cue for a couple of seconds before the release. Of they happen simultaneously like at :39, she is likely to lock onto the wrong side of the bar. You were rotating more after that to get her in, but I think if you show her the cue with the arm back as you move into position then release, it will be easier for her and you won’t need to rotate your feet or upper body.
That does open the slippery slope of releases so be sure that the connection, the arm position and the release are distinctly separate: connect, show the arm, walk a few more steps…. Then release. Otherwise she will start to release on the connection or arm movement.
Great job here!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>OMG! I was yelling for all I was worth on that last line too.>>
I figured a little loud crowd support would be helpful since your legs and lungs were already working so hard! We were all yelling for ya!
>> And he shot out of that tunnel like a rocket and blew past me on the dogwalk even though I was ahead of him before he got on it. Luckily plan B of decel and yell “POLES” worked.>>
YEP! I would not have known that it was plan B if you had not told me what plan A was LOL! It looked really smooth and also I think it avoided some of the trouble many other dogs were having with the weave exit.
I think it is great that she loves the toy! No worries about running off with it, that is probably a combo of new toy and being outdoors and being pumped up that you were home.
The RCs are going well!!!! You were showing strong diagonal lines and so she was able to turn correctly in both directions. The first RC to the left was a little late but then you fixed the timing on the next rep so she did really well.
On the circle wraps – handling was able to get her to the backside (be sure that you don’t over-help and block the wing) but then she was not familiar with the countermotion element where you moved forward and she continued to wrap. Dropping the toy behind you will totally help (or a cookie) and you can also do it on the wing alone so she can say “oh yeah! We go around wings!”
The indoor session on the barrel went really well! Nice job using just the right amount of motion to help her be able to finish the wrap while you stayed in motion. This is something you can do in a rapid-fire format with cookie drops too! You can start adding more and more motion now, to show her the countermotion even when you are going faster.
Great job here!!
Tracy
