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Hi!
All sorts of good stuff on your videos!
Blind cross:
>>I tried to keep the toy closer to me as suggested and in one of the sessions I used a longer toy. I don’t think I did as well as I should have but when she’s racing towards me and grabbing for the tug I’m more than a little afraid of her tripping me up. Did the best I could. Any other suggestions?
The long toy is definitely the winner! And, you can do the blind sooner which allows you to present the reward sooner. You were presented it as she was arriving at your leg, which might be why you were worried about her tripping you! You can start the blind when she is maybe halfway to you – and as soon as you finish the blind, dangle the toy at your side. That will give her a good focal point to drive too and she won’t curl in front or trip you 🙂
Decel:
>This is the decel and turn with moving a little more at first into a decel and hopefully with my hand lower as suggested.>>
I think this session looked great! You had a clear transition to decel, and to the pivot, nice low hand: she was perfect! He collected and was able to bend really well. Super!!!
Prop send – she did really well here too, I think you might actually have too much distance away from it (the behavior is still relatively new LOL!)
>>should I have rewarded her back at me if she was a foot or so away from the prop?>>
Yes, still reward back at you, and on the next rep, get closer so she is inside her ‘bubble’ of distance where she will still be correct 🙂 For now, you don’t need to add more distance, just add more of the sideways and backwards sends 🙂
>>I also tried the prop send with a slower ready dance to see how she did. Getting sends from side and back are definitely mroe difficult and will need to keep working on those.>>
She did really well with the calmer ready dance 🙂 And she drove to the prop really nicely! You are a little far from it here too for the beginning – towards the end, the last 2 reps (especially the last one, which was a backwards send) were closer and I think that is the perfect distance for now. It looks like the prop was maybe a foot or two pat your fingers, which is great for these sideways and backwards sends 🙂
She did well with the wing wrapping! Before doing the next session with the toys, take a look at the resilience game about markers that I posted today – adding a marker word to the toy will help her drive in even more to the toy after she wraps the wing. I think she was a bit uncertain about grabbing it especially with you sitting.
She also did well with you standing – she was not quick as perky about it, so the standing might be a distraction but also if this was the last session of the day, she was probably mentally fatigued. She can have a break from these for a day or two – they are repetitive and we don’t want her to think they are dull LOL!!! She has the concept, so now we can let latent learning work its magic while she sleeps 🙂
I love the Thanksgiving card! Hope you and the family have a great Thanksgiving 🙂
Great job here! TracyHi!
No big problems here LOL! I think the food is lower in value as compared to a toy or the ‘work’. So, use both food and a toy in this game: use food to reward her for sticking with you for the ready dance, and a toy to reward the sending. That should get rid of her asking to use the prop as a toy LOL!!! She was a really good girl, but just wanted to play rather than eat 🙂
>>I was thinking I could use a small board with rough finish, but that might be too much like what I would use for training running contacts (not sure I am doing that but you never know).
I don’t think a board would be good here, because the board is needed for other things. The hat allows us to sort out things like reinforcement and mechanics, which will make running contact training a lot easier. So, keep going with the hat and try using the different rewards. Let me know how she does!
TracyHi~
I think this is one of the videos I missed? This session went well!! You had one late rep but you caught it and the rest looked lovely! Having Brad hold her added a LOT of speed!
My only suggestion is that you can present the toy sooner: the blind and connection look great, and you can dangle the toy as soon as you finish the blind. You were waiting til she got to your leg, so she was curling into you because there was no place else to go 🙂 Getting the toy out at your side sooner will give her a really strong focal point.Great job!
TracyHi!
Good job with the goat tricks video! Nice tug break too – you were smart to move away from the board because it was hard to lift it, or to have her tug with the board leaning against you – that is a great way to hep her differentiate when you are tugging versus when you are shaping for treats.
For this board, the next step would be to raise it so that she can step up on it and put all 4 feet on it easily.
On the 2nd video – do you have a 2nd balance disc? You can put two of them together to give her a bigger playing field, in hopes of her getting all 4 feet on it. Right now she wants to pivot with front feet on, so it is good to balance that with tricks to get all 4 feet on stuff.
The wobble board was extra noisy and you can see she was not quite as sure about it. But, she worked through it and offered nicely! She did not like the sliding, so definitely brace it so she can have a more predictable surface.
On this one too, she is mainly offering front feet on and a little pivoting 🙂 So the next step is to get bigger things for her to get on or get in, so she can get her hind end in stuff too 🙂 Great job!
TracyHi –
>> I am only mentioning this because you had commented on 2 of the 4 videos I posted yesterday and I wanted to make sure you had seen the other two – one was on ready dance to the prop and one was our second try with Blind crosses. If you just haven’t gotten to them, no problem and enjoy your Thanksgiving.>>
I didn’t see them, I can scroll up and see if I can find them.
>>3. Is it better for me to add all new videos etc. at the bottom of the page or is it better to reply to the critique of a specific video by hitting the reply that is with that critique (hope that makes sense)?>>
Definitely better to add it at the bottom. In the high volume classes like this one, it is easy for something to get lost if you add it up above but also put new videos below it. So, adding to the bottom is great 🙂
T
Hi!
Your tug noises are hilarious! I guess we are all silly like that 🙂She did great here with the new objects! You’ve clearly done a lot of good value building for getting on/in stuff and she is super at it!! So you can add a little more action: rather than feeding in position on the item, you can toss the treat off to the side. That way she will get on it, balance, then get off for the reward… then drive back to get on it and balance. You should brace anything that might move with your feet, so she can hop on stuff without it moving out from under her.
And great job with the quick tug breaks! Perfect!
Hope you have a good Thanksgiving!
TracyOMG! He definitely loves his food LOL!!! This is a good thing, he has really great food AND toy drive 🙂
T
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The easiest way to do it is to upload your videos to YouTube then copy and paste the link into your thread.
TracyHi!
The easiest thing to do is upload to youtube then copy and paste the link here in your thread 🙂
TracyGood morning!
He did really well on the wraps here!! I like how he is approaching the bar and leaning int the turn, producing a slithery tight turn (slithery is good!)
Plus he is turning his head into the turn really nicely!
When he was on your left in the 2nd half of the video, you were leaving sooner with the FCs – you can keep leaving sooner and sooner, challenging him to get organized with all of the motion distraction (I think he will be fine with it) while you the ideal timing of the handling
Working the sit on the flat at the end worked well for him too. The fading process is going nicely and he is maintaining his organization!!!
>>Check out his reaction when the MM doesn’t beep for the 2nd or 3rd time
He is hilarous!! And so polite too, sitting to wait for the MM to get its act together LOL!!!
Great job on these! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
Yes, the bar made it harder because he is used to going over the bar 🙂 You were smart to go back to the lotus ball in your hand, he had trouble ignoring it on the ground 🙂If he makes a mistake, you can still reward the effort – when he was wrong, he slowed down so we can maintain the speed by rewarding effort. You can reward effort here with a cookie from your hand as you bring him back to the reset spot. And then, you can help him out by using a hand signal (or even a cookie lure) to get the sit going when he is all pumped up 🙂
And when the lotus ball goes back onto the ground, you can plan to help hm out with a cookie n your hand and reward the sit, to add more value to the sit even when the delicious lotus ball is out there 🙂
>>When does posting end for this class?
We go until November 30th here 🙂
Great job! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Tracy
