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I’m glad you are here, and I bet some of this (like the forward focus stuff) can be done seated!
Tracy
Hi! It was great seeing you last weekend, and Reacher was great!! He’s ready for the harder CAMP skills, which we will balance with the big fast lines.
He really seemed happy with the layering stuff, so I’m looking forward to adding more of that because it will make it even easier for him to chase you on course!!Have fun!
TracyHi!
Oddly, i couldn’t get this to play any sound! But it looked good and
went really well!! She has a very obvious forward focus behavior, which makes it MUCH easier to see when she is locked on (thanks, Lu, we love the obvious indication!)Her only question was when you were lateral and at the tunnel entry… she looked at the jump but then went to the tunnel. I like that you gave her a reward for a good effort. She got it right on the next rep and on the other reps after it, so no need to make an adjustment. When you try it again and you are near the tunnel, you can add in taking a step forward when you release to help her on the first rep.
About the stay – yes, you are probably spot on that she was extra excited to be doing something, so she was anticipating the release. You can mix in a ton of rewards for the stay early in a session, by throwing the reward to her for her to run around with. That will hit the double whammy of rewarding the stay AND burning off extra yee-haws 😀
Great job!
TracyHello and welcome!!! Your list of stuff to work on sounds really good, and of course Emmie can do any of the big courses or super crazy sequences 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome back!!!
This is a great question about the verbal…
>>Seems like teaching a verbal look has become quite popular. >>
Yes, very popular. Verbals are all the rage 🙂
>I’m really interested in why you aren’t doing it here. I started one with Sly but it turned into more effort than I was ready to give it.>
That’s part of why I never put a verbal on it… more effort than needed for the skill, and so far the skill has not evolved to the degree where the dogs can’t see the physical cue.
Another reason is that while my dogs all are very good with holding stays, they are right on the edge of go go go… so I don’t want to add a verbal that might potential cause confusion about what the release is. If things evolve where I become invisible to the dog (which i don’t see happening at any point)? OK, I’ll add a verbal.
> Although more than one person tells me I really need to teach the verbal.
A trend lately is to add verbals for EVERYTHING. ALL THE THINGS! This includes different verbals for specific tunnel exits (a whole new set of directionals that are different from other directionals), different verbals for backside-slice-to-the-left versus backside-slice-to-the-right, and on and on. I’ve been watching the trend carefully… we really don’t need to do it! It creates extra work and redundancy, and confusion (especially when the humans screw it up 😀 ) I mean, you are welcome to add all those verbals, but you don’t need to add them 😀
We will keep watching the evolution, of course, and if things change where the verbals are actually needed, we can add them pretty easily.
Let me know what you think!
TracyWelcome back! It is great to see you and Ripley – I have really enjoyed watching him go from “baby Ripley” in puppy stuff to grown up Ripley on podium!!! So fun! We will work on all of the things you mentioned – they are important independent skills and show up in the skills stuff and course work.
Have fun!
Tracy
PS – those photos are awesome!Welcome back to you and your two-sport superstars!!! I am looking forward to seeing their agility (and I will get you switched over to the active flyball class when I get home from this long road trip on Tuesday).
Have fun!
TracyWelcome! I am so glad you joined! I am looking forward to seeing more of Blitz – he is getting all grown up now! And yes… distance skills are DEFINITELY on our agenda.
Have fun! And fingers crossed for a dry, cool summer 🙂
Tracy
Welcome back! We can tweak a whole lot to fit into your 30×30. And lots of CAMPers in the past share ring rentals with friends (even if they are not CAMPers :)) to get the added distractions of other people and dogs 🙂
Looking forward to it!
TracyWelcome back to CAMP! It has been fun to watch Sly develop from baby pup to champion agility dog!
And yes, life is busy so you might not be able to do ALL the stuff but even doing parts of it can give you ideas for training and handling! Have fun!
Tracy
