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Hello and welcome! She sounds like a really fun puppy, and she is already off to a great start!!
Have fun!
TracyHi!
SUPER nice session here!!! You did a great job with your transitions, including adding in the rotation earlier and earlier. All 3 elements seemed very clear & distinct – and a rear cross at the end: Huzzah!She only had one question, which is when she ended up on your other side exiting the wrap at 1:07. The Court Of Video Review rules in her favor: your shoulders were closing forward as she exited the wrap, so she had to guess about which side to end up on (connection was not as clear as it was on the other reps).
So definitely keep your connection open to her, and in the next session add in more of your motion – both in terms of rotating and moving through the FC with more speed, and staying in motion for her to chase you (only throw the toy once she catches up to you).
Adding more motion on the FC will help her see the rotation even more (and challenges her to maintain commitment). And adding more running on the exit (rather than decel and throw) builds up the value of chasing you out of the cross, which is one of the ways we convince the dogs to turn crazy tight and power out without any wideness or scoping: the reward of chasing da momma!
I believe she is 14.5 months old now, or thereabouts, yes? So in that case, give her a little more height to collect over on this game. It looks like the bar was 4 inches here? Try her at 8 inches and see how she does! (My guess is she will be great). Because the bar is higher, do one “go” rep to show it to her before starting the wraps.
Great job! Let me know how she does with the taller bar!
TracyHi!
I think she has the idea go the get out versus the go, so now it is a matter of clarifying the cue. An idea about arm use:, because that is the only thing I think she needs see a little differently:
On these reps, you had both arms back and a lot of connection, which was tending to draw her into you – and that is way you ended up turning your feet and moving towards the jump on the ‘get out’ cues.
So, keep your arms back on the go reps, that worked like a charm!
On the get out reps, as soon as she exits the wing wrap, use your outside arm to point to the outer wing/exit wing of the jump (while looking at her). So the outside arm will actually be out ahead of your shoulders rather than behind you, which will show her the get out line pretty clearly. And that can help you keep your feet straight so you don’t need to stop to the wing.
>>Tossing the toy too early.
Keep the toy in the dog-side hand, so it is easier to toss on both the go and the get out, and so the get out hand is empty as you point to the outer/exit ing of the jump.
Let me know if that makes sense! I think that arm position will make all the difference.
Nice work!
TracyHi!
>>We had to abort the tandem turn due to a gopher tortoise trying to find his way out of our fence. Later there were two and I think they were having words about whose hole was whose so I just moved to another spot where Hola wouldn’t see them.
Ha! That is great!!! LOL!
The zig zags are gong well! She was definitely having to think about all the lead changes and she did some fancy footwork as she as sorting it all out LOL! She was doing lots of little lead changes on the line which means she was actively working to figure out the coordination of it and also go fast 🙂 The last rep was the smoothest one, which is great! Give her 2 days for her brain to think it over, then do another session and see what she does 🙂
Tandem turns are going really well! You were smooth and clear on the first reps on 1 wing, and you kept things smooth and clear when you added the other wing as well. Yay! The tandem turn doesn’t need to do any after than the slow, clear hand motions you were doing – and when you are running into them, you would decelerate a bit as you started the hand movements so help set up the turn.
She is definitely ready for more of the tandem turns with the other wing and race tracks too!
Great job here!
TracyHi!
Looking at these 2 videos from the perspective of trying to sort out his questions:
Video 1: The first 3 minutes of this went super well! Then it was like a switch flipped: right at 3 minutes, he didn’t want to come back to reset and then he had 2 misses in a row (on things he had done correctly earlier in the session) You were great about making it easier.
The first 90 seconds of the 2nd video went well too then he struggled with the same struggle as the first video.
>>He had real difficulty going to his right so with your voice in my head after two failures I made it easier.
That was great! I also think session length comes into play – on a game like this, it is a really hard physical game for the pups and we don’t really feel that because we are standing still LOL!!
>>Is it my body position I wonder? Or going to his right is harder? Or he can see me directly in front of him so why should he zig zag around the jump wings >>
I think this was part of it – the further away you were, the bigger and more dramatic the cues needed to be. So as you move further away from his start position, try to only add one step away at a time, rather than going to the next wing or end of the bar.
And, for this game – time your sessions to 90 seconds (or 5 reps) then be finished, and do something else. You can come back and do another 90 seconds later on, as long as he gets a break between. I think he might be ‘feeling the burn’ LOL! Which is why he turns off a bit after ra certain point.
So shorter sessions/fewer reps, plus being more visible and closer for now on the reps where he has to go to his right side should totally help! And as he grow up, you will see his stamina increases and the session can get longer.
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyThe software doesn’t have a way to post individual photos, unfortunately. But URLs and Drive links work really well for that!
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Yes! Pearl the Super Berner! She is such a cool dog! Great to see you back with baby Hoodoo. !4 weeks is a perfect age to begin 🙂 Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome! Always great to see you here!!!! Definitely jump in with your thoughts and observations!
Tracy
Hello and welcome! He us adorable!!! And 8 months is a perfect age – the blue merle pup is about 8 months in the demo videos, so you can watch a slightly older pup too 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHello to you and baby Sequel!!!! I can’t wait to see more of her in action – she sounds like a big personality in a little package 🙂
Hi!
The moving target is going well, and it is accomplishing the goal of getting him striding out with his head down. His only question was about the release to it:
He had a little trouble holding his sit with the moving target so you can toss a cookie back to him to reward the stay when the toy is on the ground (at first) and moving before the relase (eventually :)) to help solidify the stay with the moving target. And you can add the next step of doing this on a jump!On the Minny pinny, he is doing well too and definitely turning really well! Yay! You can add in holding his collar and saying the verbal a few times, then let go – that will both tell him when to start and allow him a couple of heartbeats to process the verbal before he starts moving. That will help especially when you add in the turn-away moments.
Great job here!!!
Tracy
