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Hello there! I love your lists here!!
Your “things I can control in the universe” is pretty identical to mine LOL!!!
And you make an excellent point about Nox’s emotional state: you can help her, but you can’t control her. It is a big change in mindset to think about ways we can help them!!
Have you tried the daily challenges?
Tracy
Good morning!
Sorry to hear about the crazy work week! Work gets in the way of the fun LOL! This is a perfect choice to play though – fast and fun! The cookie session in the beginning was a good warm up but she gives 2 paws up for the toy!
She is wrapping really well and had a TON of success here. So fun to watch! And she is going be a fabulous turning dog!!
The main thing is going to be giving MASSIVE connection after the FC and be patient with the sending, to get her into the 2nd send when you do 2 in a row. It will feel a bit slow motion at first – as she finishes wrapping the first barrel, keep your fingers pointed back to her and make more eye contact, and let her almost catch up to you… then send. At :51 for example, you were pointing ahead of her and rotating before she committed so she didn’t commit. In that moment, it might have looked like she was going for the toy, but she was not – when you were connected on the sends, she never looked at the toy. So it was a handling question from her (you can reward and start over when that happens)
Compare to 1:12 where you were more connected and DEFINITELY to 1:30 and 1:42 where you were perfect and she nailed the wrap (never looked at the toy).
At 1:53 she had a question – I think it because you changed sides and with the barrels further apart, she was like “wait, what?” when you sent a little bit early. That is totally relatable LOL! Laughing and giving her the toy was the 100% correct response 🙂 Your timing was perfect at 1:58 and on the last rep – it might feel really delayed but that is only because she is a baby dog and needs time to process it all.
Great job here! As she gets more experience with the rocking horses, you won’t have to be quite as perfect because she will understand the commitment. You can try the sideways sending now!
Tracy
Good morning!
>>The first thing that I am posting is three shorts at the weirdness gauntlet.
She made me laugh so hard in that first one – nothing weird AT ALL for her. She is like my whippet puppy – no big deal at all to see weird random things in the environment. This is great! She seems to have a natural, genetic resilience and that will make things SO much easier.
The game still accomplishes the goal os stimulating her HPA axis and then letting her return to baseline – she just does it faster and it is less obvious than a dog that might have more of a startle response.
>It was really interesting here to listen to JJ. She decided to approach this as a scent work activity. You can hear her sniffing the objects. I am not sure what triggered that action from JJ. It might have been that the bag looked like a container from a container search.>
That was really cool! My guess is that she was in “we are doing a THING” mode and those objects looked like scent work objects. All good, we like that! On the 3rd short, the objects didn’t look like scent objects so she just went about her business elsewhere LOL! Great sessions here 🙂
On the backing up – she definitely “looks” for the platform with her left hind first (but uses her other foot equally elsewhere). So 2 ideas for you:
Using this setup, you can begin the rep with her back feet on the platform. Then gently take her right hind off the platform by literally lifting her foot forward to the ground if she doesn’t mind that (you might have to feed her while you are doing this) or lure her to step off with her right hind only (this is trickier) – then when the right hind only is off, reward her for putting it back on. That isolates the right hind but allows her to remain stable with the left him.The other thing you can do is something called mountain climbers, which looks like this:
It is really hard but great for hind end isolation – note the angles help her isolate each back foot. She was rehabbing from patella surgery so you can see spots where she is not totally stable yet. Please ignore the cat LOL!
Looking at the remote reinforcement videos:
>>There was an incident earlier in the evening that might have had an impact on her behavior. We had gotten a cooked chicken from Costco and it was on the counter.>>
Sometimes things happen in life that help out our training sessions LOL! I think that I would have reacted the same way if the pup had her face in cooked chicken on the counter! Plus, in these sessions, she was definitely in training mode and was a perfect citizen 🙂 The cookie session looked great! The toy session was harder – did you see the long goodbye to he toy on the first rep, as she looked at it? That toy was definitely more stimulating but she did a great job!!
I like the “it’s time!” Marker! And both sessions were set up really well – the reinforcement was highly visible but not toooooo tempting or within reach. And you were really great about asking for a little bit of behavior but not too much – great job!
I think this will bubble over into real life skills too, so there are no more Great Costco Chicken Capers.
Nice work on these!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
This is going really well!! It is a BEAST of a course and you did a great job!!!
>>This time I think I was pushing harder down the line with the dogwalk and we had a big bail off, >>
The tricky part with course work is that we also want to maintain contacts while still doing the independent handling – so feel free to put targets out or contact mats or whatever you used in training, so that he can be successful on the contacts AND you can get where you need to be on course. This will help solidify the independent contacts too, especially the DW and teeter here.
Rep 1 – very nice opening line!!! The blind can start a little sooner at :03 and :44 (he was already in the air over 2) You were earlier at 1:35 (before he took off) and it set up a better turn for sure! You can also try sending him to 4-5 and layering the yellow tunnel to get up the line for the backside after the DW
The line from the DW to the a-frame was a Goldilocks moment:
Not enough support to the frame on the first run, and it looked like he needed one more step to the a-frame at :16? That threw you off a bit but great job staying in motion and getting a great line to the teeter!!Too much support at :55 and he took the backside of the jump before it.
Then it was just right at 1:46 and he nailed it 🙂 Yay! In the ‘just right’ moment, you didn’t pressure in towards the line – you stayed connected and called him and drove to the a-frame. NICE!
The 10-11 line looked good! On the wrap at 12 at 1:04, be sure to use your dog side leg to step to the jump (your left leg here). You had your left leg back and he went directly to it rather than to the jump. Compare to 1:53 where your left leg was involved so you showed more deceleration and commitment, and he nailed it there too.
On the slice rear before the teeter, great job at 2:00 running to the center of the bar to set the rear cross then stepping across his line – that looked great!
About the jump after the teeter – to get the tunnel only and no bonus jumps 🙂 ideally you would leave him on the teeter to do it independently, so he can turn as he exits the teeter because he sees that you are already turned. Staying with him sends him more forward to the jump as you release and accelerate.
Great job on these!!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning and welcome back! You and Timber look great here!!!
On the video:
First rep – nice blind 2-3-4!
At 4, you did a post turn with a here verbal. He was indeed wide on the first rep – a little less wide at :25. See below for handling ideas (spoiler alert: I think a spin would be very effective here, even though you mentioned you were trying to do less of them :))The wrap on 6 will get tighter and tighter as you get earlier. At :12 you started it as he was over the bar. At :27m you were earlier and he was already tighter – yay!
>>Know I ran the wrong way on jump #1 (my error).
No worries! You still got to do that big backside send on 2, it looked great!
When sending him to 3 and moving away to 4 – you can start the verbal and move away as soon as you see his head turn to 3 and lock onto it. That will tighten that up a little (it only needs to be a little tighter :)) The wrap on 4 was strong!
>>He did knock the #6 bar on round #1 – sometimes when I keep moving ahead, he will chase me and knock a bar. Don’t know if that is why the bar went down this time or that he was just seeing the back of my head..>>
At :44 it was a definite back of the head moment. At 1:10 you didn’t get as far ahead and that helped, but with his speed I think it is important to get way ahead – so get way ahead but point your arm back to his nose (keeping it low) and turn your head back to him so he sees the connection.
Adding the off course jump to sequence 1? No problem at all 🙂 Lovely!!!!
Seq 2 – He had a little trouble with the backside at 2 here. He needs more motion and connection to the backside at 1:44 – your upper body and feet and arm all indicated the front, which overrode the verbal there. On the next rep you had clearer handling but I think moving into it will be better for you both – motion supports the backside line better and also gets you moving sooner
>>BUT I am trying not to use spins so often, as they slow me down (and I am already slow).>>
So let’s focus on tightening turns and when the spin is the best option, and when it is not the best option 🙂 I think a spin for jump 4 on sequence 1 might be very effective – the post turn shows him the wider line and adds steps for you getting out of there. If you can decelerate into the spin to rotate your feet sooner, you will have a tighter turn and your feet will be facing the 5-6 line sooner than without the spin.
Now on the 6 turn, the spin can slow down your progress to the next part of the course – so something to try there is to decel as he is landing from 5, send to 6 with your wrap verbal… and as soon as his head turns to look at 6 – you get outta there and run to 7. You were a little late on the sends there, so his turns were a little wide. Starting the cues as he is landing from 5 and then leaving for 7 as soon as he looks at the jump should totally help!
You asked on the video why the turn at 6 was better – I think you were referring to 2:08 (it was a really nice turn there!) You were earlier with your shoulder turn and more connected, so the line looked really good 🙂
On round 3, when you added the tunnel, your handling got a little less aggressive so he didn’t get the same info, especially on sequence 1:
On the opening with the blind, you did’t move as much so at 2:19 and 2:31 – you were in the position for the blind that pulled him through the gap so he was correct to come through to the tunnel. Compare to the other reps (without the tunnel) there where you did the blind further across the bar. So the trick is to be just as aggressive in your handling as you were with the other sequences, or even more aggressive in terms of moving up the line. Don’t use any verbal corrections or stopping if he ends up off course, because he was 100% correct in how he read the handling and we don’t want his arousal state to change if he gets confused or frustrated.
Sequence 2 looked GREAT! You ran it almost exactly the same as you ran it without the tunnel there. You were not quite as aggressively moving up the line as you did without the tunnel, but you were still moving really well and you were SUPER connected! Yay!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>Every time I stop when I’m running these big courses, I think crap I’m supposed to keep going. But am I? I feel like with a 20 obstacle course, I can’t keep running the whole thing till “I” get it right. Let me know if/how I should adjust what I’m doing with that.>>
Yep, you are supposed to keep going. Ideally, we handlers sacrifice being able to run the whole course clean in that session in order to maintain the best mental state for the dog. The starts and stops, even with cookies, can be very frustrating for dogs. When we stop, we never act the same as if it was correct – there is always and element of deflation in our body language and a drop in energy, or we toss a treat and look away, so the dogs perceive it as a time out even though they get cookies. The dogs know we should be running out there, so stopping for cookies in not as rewarding as we think it is! There is a hierarchy for them:
– keep going, finish strong
– cookies for handler errors and stopping
– getting nothing LOLAnd with the starts and stops, we end up running the dog more, not less. So if I have errors but have run the course a few times, or I am getting tired? I will stop, even if I didn’t get it right, and come back to it another time.
>>sorry about the peanut gallery, it was raining so they came in with me.>>
You won’t see any thoughts on verbals here, because I couldn’t hear them LOL!!!
>>It provides good distraction and as I was walking to the back to start the course I asked her to weave between my legs. It’s part of our warm up routine so she does it ALL the time. She couldn’t do it. She acted like she had no clue what I was asking her to do.>>
It is because in that arousal state, she indeed had no clue. It was a legit response from her – between the arousal of starting the course and the pressure of the other dogs barking at her, you got to see the arousal go past the optimal state (which is what happens at trials). I think she did well on the course, though!!!
Looking at the course – this went really well! Most of it was really strong! There are some tricky spots but it is a hard course 🙂
The opening line looked good! After the weaves, look at the sections from :22 – :24 and :40 – :42 (line after the weaves to the tunnel): she was turning left and looking at you over 9 when we want her turning right and looking at the tunnel. You had great connection, but you don’t need to handle the 9 jump by running parallel to it – after cuing 8, run directly towards the landing side of it, converging to the 10 tunnel and give your get out cues when she is no more than halfway between jumps 8 and 9. That should get her looking to her right before takeoff for 9.
After the tunnel – You can layer the 12/16/21 jump rather than run around it. It should help make that FC earlier 11-12, and get rid of some of her questions. I think that layering would be very proactive and aggressive (and also easier for you to do :))
The spin on 12 worked well ! She didn’t touch that tunnel which is oh-so-close!
Getting 14 was hard – I think the convergence was what she needed and worked well. At :50 you did the outside arm AND convergence, and it was too much and pushed her of the line. So you can either converge into her line to push her out, or run to the wing of 14 and use the outside arm. Both can work. And if she ends up on the front? That is an easy spot to keep going!
I think getting the 16 jump with the left turn was the hardest element:
The convergence put you too far up the line at :53, which made the RC on 16 late – that is an good spot to keep going too, you can pick her up after the tunnel exit and send to 16 to carry on. If you rear cross that, there is a LOT of driving forward (not sure if the RC was your original plan).The BC there 15 – 16 worked a LOT better but then you slammed on the brakes to manage the turn on 16, which created questions from her. On the first you, the big stop in your motion and with both arms pointing down… feet pointing to the center of the bar and pressure to the center of the bar which correctly read are rear cross to her. You can keep going there to – just send her back around the the 16 jump.
At 1:23, trying to slam on the brakes and you 2 hands to whoa her resulted in you turning your shoulders too soon… so she didn’t take 16.
On this type of turn, I think the most effective tool in your arsenal is your reverse spin (look at how great it was at 12!!). The spin on this type of turn keeps you moving to the correct wing, which helps her commit, and creates a great turn, and turns your feet the correct direction for the a-frame. Don’t be afraid to use that spin more! Some dogs find them VERY effective – Josie for sure, and my Voodoo and Hot Sauce too!
The RC on the ending line is a little wicked too 🙂 It has to be timed just right and even then, the dogs have to understand tunnel versus jump discriminations. At 1:36 – you tried to do the RC before she got past you, s she pushed off the line. But I liked your line to the center of the bar!
On the last rep, you pulled too much so you got the RC but it pt you out of position so she ended up in the tunnel. I couldn’t hear what you were saying, it might have been “go” but the problem with go is that it could apply for the tunnel or the jump. So, a jump verbal will really help in those discrimination moments. That plus running to the center of the bar like you did on the first rep there and a little more patience to let her get past you should work like a charm.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyOh no, poor Dreamer! Ouch!!!
That should heal up quickly, right? While it heals, you can walk and run your invisible dog 😀 to practice connection and driving really aggressively! That will be great prep for when he is ready to run again.
TracyHi!
Two things you can add into the next sessions:
– walk the course several times before you run it, using magnetic fingers to point to his nose behind you. And let your eyes travel down your hand to your fingers so he sees the connection and you practice seeing the obstacles peripherally.– rather than stop when there is an error, keep going no matter what. Either stay on the sequence as if it was perfect, or freestyle a little and make up a line… then reward. That is great for reducing frustration and for helping us humans learn to think on our feet 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
>> She is such a good girlie and always tries so hard. It can be a double edged sword because I can get caught up in trying to “get it right” and she will keep working even though I don’t reward enough. >>
Yes, she is the best! She keeps going no matter what, but you can just reward no matter what. Worst case scenario, we reward a little extra, which is not a problem LOL!
>>I was using only cheese while we were working and tugs/retrieves at the end of our sessions to conserve her energy and not have her get too hot too soon. that being said, I definitely could have rewarded more with cheese and/or keep our motion going through an error.>>
That is smart in the heat (you might notice in the demos I often use food only because it is so dang hot sometimes!) And yes, you can give her more cheese, she won’t be sad about that LOL!
>>I had a passing thought about layering 14. I can set up this section at home adding the layer, verbals, and being more mindful of rewards>>
We have more layering coming next week! Stay tuned! And let me know how this section gets with the layering and verbals (and cheese :))
Tracy
Hi!
>>I needed to walk it several times & a few different ways. I thought I had my plan and then decided to change it to the plan with Front Crosses on my video. >>
Good job walking it! I liked your front cross plan, I think it puts you in a better position than a serp would have. You could have done the serp to blind 6-7 but that would be much harder – I think the FC was perfect!
Wow, sequence 3 looked great! I think a blind cross (or a front cross) 2-3 will make getting 4 easier – you got behind there and I could hear the panic in your voice calling her to 4 LOL!! But you stayed connected and she did really well! And the turn on 7 looked super tight, looked like she did NOT look at the tunnel at all!
The tunnel was blocking the view at :36 so I couldn’t see what he did, but I think you had a little disconnection so she came off the line (because the disconnection turns your shoulders away from the jump, so it is a legit question from Frankie :))
The third rep looked great, even better than rep 1!!!
The blind cross practice was good too – I think it I a matter of finding the sweet spot for your arms. She needs your arm on the send to 2, but then the blind worked better when your arms were lower (so she could see the new connection sooner). She was really fast on all the reps, so I think blinds will be really effective with her!!
>>I started to set up the jumping course, if we are ready. It may be a little squished when I get it finished but I think we can run it.>>
Yes! You are ready! And if it s squished, feel free to modify things to make it fit better.
Great job here!
TracyHi!
This is a wicked hard course and you had a ton of beautiful sections, and great adjustments on the moments that were hard. Yay!
>>I had a lot of issues with not taking that extra step and got some yelling from her. My brain knows the problem, but I can’t get my feet to do it correctly!>>
Another way to think of it is to watch her head, and you keep cuing the obstacle until she cues you that she has it and you can leave. Her cue will look like her head locking onto the line and taking a step towards it. That will also help you get your hands lower – when your hands get high, she has trouble seeing the lines sometimes.
On the previous post, I mentioned wanting to make a bigger connection on the exit of the blind so that she picks up the side change sooner and was tighter… that was what bit you on the opening 3-4. The rotation of the blind was good but you closed your shoulders forward to the 4 tunnel and didn’t look back to her…. So she picked up the off course at :10.
Note the difference in connection at 1:03 – LOVELY!!! Also lovely on the 3rd run!
As you cue the weaves, this is a watch her head moment: keep moving forward to the weaves and cuing them, until you see her head lock onto the first pole – that is her way of telling you that she has it and you can leave for the next thing. You were too early pulling away on the first run so she didn’t get the entry.
You were more connected and moved forward more to the weaves on the 2nd run and she was lovely there too!
Very nice line from the weaves to the 9 tunnel!!! And yes, she is driving brilliantly to that tunnel, even with it slightly offset on the line!!!! And even committing to it with you decelerating to move to the next spot!! Happy dance! 🤩😁
On the 10 jump – you can use the watch-her-head concept at :26 and 2:02 as well, to make sure she cues you to move away when she has the line (lower arm will help). You had really nice lines to 11 each time!
The 12-13-14 section is really wicked and requires a lot of connection – great job sorting that out so the last run had just the right balance of connection and motion. Super!!
>>For 15, I was able to get her into the tunnel by giving a “here” cue. I’m not entirely sure what “here” means, though, lol. It’s something I’ve used forever with other dogs instead of specific directionals, and it just slips out sometimes. I’m guessing it’s just a bit of a head check for Nox.>>
I think it was an effective attention-getter to help her learn a new skill – that is a hard tunnel entry with you far away and showing countermotion! She probably just needed more experience on that skill, it is new and weird!The ending line looked good too – Think the serp lines were faster but it was harder to get the connection to the last jump. The wrap worked really well too!
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>It will probably be super helpful at some point, but for now, it would be great if she could not see my mistakes, lol.>
Ha! This wins the quote of the day! LOL!
>>It’s so interesting to me that she understands communication between us that I don’t even notice.
It is because they process information in a way that is almost slow motion compared to our processing speed. So they see all the tiny details for better or for worse!
>>The only thing I was really wondering about is your opinion of my choice to try a blind after 4 in sequence 1. I felt like it allowed me to cue and support jump 4 while staying in motion and getting to the next line.>>
Speaking of processing… when I watched the first run, I thought hmmmm, you got a little too far ahead and that is where most of the jumping errors happen (visually, she doesn’t process as well when you are ahead past a certain point). And the 4 blinds on the next sequence were more work for you, but certainly seemed to solve the problem of getting too far ahead- looked really good! So in places where you can do it, a little extra handing so you stay in motion while not getting too far ahead might be just the perfect thing!
Seq 2 looked great! Loved the independent backside at 2 and all of your smooth running and connection!
Sequence 3 looked good too! Remember to make a big eye contact on the exit of the blind (you were a bit too forward, so she was wide 5-6. And I think the bar down on the backside was just a tunnel distraction moment – that is a BIG distraction 🙂
Nice work! Onwards to the course!
Tracy
Hi!
There was a lot of good work here! And a spot where you owe her cookies LOL!Seq 1: She did really well here! Especially her turns, those are looking good!
On the opening line, be aggressive by calling sooner and driving her to the blind at 3, don’t manage her by calling til she is almost at 3 then doing the blind.At :12 you were running back towards 1 with your shoulders facing forward – try to run towards 6 with your serp shoulders open and facing the jump
Similar at :41 and also rep 3: they were better but you’re handling like a threadle but it is a serp so you don’t need to pull her in then push her outSeq 2 – On the first rep, you can send less to 12 so you don’t have to sit as much at 2. And try to push to the backside from further away – your position at :05 on 3 was a bit behind so she didn’t know which way to go and dropped the bar.
Compare that to the 2nd rep – you didn’t send to 1 from as far away and you sent to the 2 backside rom further away – and it was great and put you pretty far ahead to set the line 2-3-4! Nice!!!
And stay super duper connected, big eyeballs to her eyeballs – even a tiny bit of disconnection causes a bar to fall (I am voting in favor of jumping her at 20 especially in training! Jumping 24 all the time is hard on the body and she rehearses dropping a lot of bars). You had little disconnects on the first run, but the 2nd run was perfect connection 🙂
Seq 2 with the tunnel: your opening line looked great! Lovely serp 2-3 (this is what I think the 5-6 line on sequence 1 should look like)
In her defense at :12, your position as she exited #4 was literally at the tunnel entry, as close as possible without you going in it LOL! And as you moved, it opened it up even more.
And also in her defense at :38 you were also right at the tunnel entry AND saying “here here” so she of course thought you meant the tunnel. She didn’t take it but she sure looked at you funny LOL!! So don’t go anywhere near the off course obstacles here – stay really close to the line you want her to run, next to the wing.
Seq 3 – nice FC after 2! Be sure you are watching her head as you cue the tunnel – keep cuing it and sending to it until you see her look at it and lock on, then you can move away to 4. She never looked at it on the first rep because you moved away too quickly. That was a handler error, so you can either keep going or you must reward her – be sure that you don’t walk away without a reward.
The middle section looked really strong! She considered the folded over teal tunnel because it was on her line and she couldn’t figure out how to get into it LOL!! Good girl! She didn’t look at it at all on the 2nd rep.
On the FC after 7 – at :31, your position was running towards the tunnel and you broke connection… so it looked like a spin to the tunnel. She was correct. Reward her!
It is really important to reward her even if you think she was wrong… because when you look at the video, you will see she is not wrong. Watch the section from:30 to :32 in slow motion, and watch your feet: totally running to the tunnel and quite close to it too!
And if you are convinced she was wrong – reward her anyway then watch the video before the next rep. You will see that it was handler error 🙂 Stopping and not rewarding when she has correctly read your cues will be deflating for her, and we don’t want that, especially when you tell her that you are frustrated.At 1:11, you ran backwards toward the tunnel even more, saying “right here!” All of which indicates the tunnel (motion towards it, even backwards motion is a cue, and you did say “right here” so she came to you). Then you caught her and gave her a corrective “NO!” And you can see her deflate. Since it was handler error, go give her 5 cookies right now and she will forgive you 😁😁
>> She slices it and lands almost in the tunnel lol.>>
it was your motion that drew her to it – look at the video and you will see yourself running backwards. That is why I often stop and watch the video when something is going wrong and I can’t figure out why.
So how to NOT get the tunnel? Stay close to the 7 jump backside wing, and connect and then run directly to 8. No motion to the tunnel at all, not even backwards motion – and big connection as you run to 8. That will get it perfectly 🙂
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Welcome back to you and the girls!!!Looking at Rosie’s step 1 seq 1 video:
She did well on all of these – you did a great job getting her pumped up and ready to run! I liked your start on the 3rd rep and 4th rep the best (:31 & :46) – you had the smoothest path to jump 1 so she was able to get speed and keep the bar up.The rear cross on the 3-4-5 line works well; it is definitely one of your strong tools with her! I think you can play with a blind cross there too (but the rear cross looked lovely).
As you are coming back down the line after 4, try to keep moving through 5 and stay ahead on the way to 6. As you pass 5, you can open up your shoulders and give her a serp arm. When you were pulling away from the jump, she was not sure where 6 was and so she slowed down there, especially if you stopped (like at :35)On sequence 2 – the rear cross on 1 looked great each! She thought the backside on 2 was a little weird LOL! But she took it correctly every single time. Yay! So that might be why she slowed down a bit on the first rep, but got faster and faster on each run.
>>n sequence 2 4 to 5 was a bit awkward. For some reason it did not occur to me to wrap 4>>
It might have been that you had done sequence 1 where the correct turn there was to the right? Or the distance looked shorter? But on the 3-4-5 line – you will have a faster line if you turn her to her left over 4. That will set up a race car line and as she exits 4, she will be looking directly at 5 and can take that line in extension. The right turn over 4 caused you to have to threadle her back in, which slowed her down and created extra turns.
On Lily’s video:
Seq 1 looked great too! You ran tighter lines with her than with Rosie, so she was tighter and faster. The Rear cross on 4 looked great here too and you were much closer to the 5-6 line, so she was tighter. That extra speed actually created a wider turn at 6 because there was too much acceleration from you o the first two reps. On rep 3, you decelerated before she took off and got a great turn there!Her opening on the 2nd sequence looked great too – she is more comfortable with backsides so drove to it a lot better!
As with Rosie, the right turn was harder and because Lily has great line focus, she did not come through the gap on the first rep. No worries! When that happens, you can keep going and reward her 🙂 I am impressed with the rear cross to the FC to the use through the to the rear cross! That was impressive!! The left turn will be easier but wow, that was a lot of fast footwork and she read it really well!!Rosie step 2 – yes, she totally looked at the added jump on the first rep and then she was very judgmental at :10. Small dog, big opinions LOL!!! O the 2nd rep, she didn’t look at it between 2 and 3 but totally looked at it on the way from 4 to 5. It was a good challenge for her!
On sequence 2:
The backside looked good, she didn’t look at the jump at all!
Getting the turn on 4 was hard – it was not as clear if you wanted the left turn or right turn. She reads you really well, so continuing and then rewarding will really help. On the first rep, your line of motion supported the backside she took.
Then on the middle reps, you got her to the front but then stepped onto the rear cross line towards the center of the bar, so she took it to her right – she is very good at watching all of your footwork! O the last couple of reps you ran a great path to the exit wing, never facing the rear cross line, so she totally nailed it. Yay! You did a blind cross there and it worked well – the blind cross seemed to keep your feet pointing to the left turn line the whole time, so she never had confusion about which way to turn. On the front crosses, if you stepped in too soon, she was reading it as a rear cross cue.On Lily’s step 2 video: I agree, she didn’t seem to look at the added jump at all! Good girl! And on the 4-5-6 line, you were great about staying close to the jump so her lines were nice and tight too.
On the 2nd sequence: you turned her to the right on the first rep with the fancy footwork 🙂 and it was a nice tight run. On the next reps, you got her to the left turn side of 4 but then I am guessing it felt weird, so you stopped. At 1:23 you started the blind but she turned right and sniffed (maybe frustration from repeating it a lot?) The reward you gave her after showing it to her helped a LOT and got her back in the game. Then the next reps looked great!
The other thing I really liked about using the left turn at 4 was that you were able to use her distance skills for 5 and 6 and be miles ahead for 7! That will also make other parts of the course much easier.
Great job here! The girls are ready for you to add the tunnel!
Tracy
Hi!
Wow, she is FAST and fun! And great jumper too!
The main thing I see here is that by trying to run her off the start line, the information flow breaks immediately, and she gets into the arousal zone of frustration, and gets going on the big loops. The rest of the course is then spent trying to get her back from that, which is really hard. So first question: does she have a stay behavior of any sort? The more you can lead out, the easier it will be to give great information and reduce frustration.
T
