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Good morning! He did really well on these!
The plank was easy for him! He seemed to have no trouble with getting on, turning around, getting off, etc. He looked really confident! The next step here would be too get him on different planks in different places.
He remembered the wrapping with you in the chair after you jump started it with a hand cue. You can also help by using th two bowls so he looks at your hands less. For the next session, start in the chair like you did here, then when he gets in the groove, move to standing up š
He figured out the tunnel nicely! I think the tunnel might be a shade too long for now, is there a way to scrunch it up more? That way you can start adding in your motion and sending. Your placement of the magic box š ready treat was great, definitely keep doing that!
Stays are definitely the hardest for him right now. I think this is a good game for using the clicker, because it is super clear and can help mark exactly what you want… without accidentally building motion into the release. So start with clicking when he sits, then toss the treat behind him.
You can then start to gradually delay the click after the sit, by just a heartbeat, to begin getting more duration.You can also play some crate games with him to help him learn to sit still š I can post some videos if you want to see the crate games!
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Parallel path work is going really well! She definitely has the concept of āstay on your line and go to the thingā. You can mark the behavior and toss the reward sooner, to help get her eyes ahead and not looking at you (she would look at you after hitting the prop because there was nothing else to look at :)) So you can mark her intent to go to it and her focus forward to it (probably a stride or two before she arrives) and mark with a āget itā rather than a clickerā¦ then toss the reward so it is landing before she looks at you. This will keep her looking ahead nicely! And no worries about hitting the prop at this point – she is just about reward to do the concept transfer where we move this to a baby jump (with the same early timing of mark & reward so she doesnāt look back at you :))
Rear crosses are definitely harder for all of the pups! She was turning back towards the original direction because you were late getting to her new side – you need to be visible on the new side when she is till a stride away from the prop, so she can turn the new direction.
One thing that should help is starting further away from it, so you have time to get to the new side without having to run fast š You might try a coupe of reps of the parallel path game where you start 15 feet or more away from the prop, so she drives ahead of you. Then when she is happy with that, you can start 15 feet away and cut in behind her as early as when she is halfway to the prop! That should give you more time to get visible on the new side. And no worries if she doesnāt hit the prop perfectly, we will be happy if she turns the new direction š
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyRear crosses:
Yay! He did well here too! You can get to his shoulder sooner after the reward cross, so that it is easier for him to find you immediately without looking the other direction first.The only other suggestion is to use the wall to your advantage: hold his collar (donāt let go until the cookie lands) then toss the cookie to the wall or into a corner. When the cookie stops moving, you can let him go to get it and go the rear cross even sooner. The wall will help him turn the new direction because it is less likely that he will turn towards the wall.
And if he has an easy time with that, you can get the prop involved with this – put the prop in a corner or next to a wall to help create the turn for the first few reps, and keep getting to his shoulder on the new side as early as possible.
Great job on all of these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Very cool to see him happy to back up onto the disc with no worries about the movement! Super!!!! So now, like with the perch workā¦ see if you can fade out your body language a bit š Start him really close so he only has to back up one stepā¦ and try not to move forward to help him. Let him offer that step back onto the disc and reward when he does š The goal is that he can eventually back all the way up to it without you moving at all š But for now, start with him very close so he only has to think about one or two steps.
Great job!!
Hi!
>>no movement on Release world!
I think you were fine here in terms of movement – your movement was not having any impact on the sit offering or the clicking here! And we do build handler movement into stays so you can move or be running the whole time and he will stay til released. The goal is that you donāt stand still and release & move at the same time.
The click timing was good here! You donāt need to say āokā, you can use a reward marker like ācatchā if you are throwing the reward back to him like you stated doing at 1:30.
So for the next session – delay the timing of the click a little more, just a heartbeat or twoā¦ then click and toss the treat back to him. Then you can sometimes delay the click a little moreā¦ and sometimes click right away to make it variable (and reward each time of course :)) As you are doing this, try to move a little – taking a step away (a slow step :)) and turning to face forward more rather than facing him.
Nice work!
TracyHi!
I like the wrap to retrieve, it is getting him driving past you while you are running š And it looks like you were running fast the whole time and he was really driving š Yay!
I think the only question he had was on rep 3 where he didnāt see the toy throw, so didnāt know where to go The rest were solid! And you can add the running away after he gets the ball if you like but he was also seeming to pick it up and wait for you/retrieve it, which means you can play and donāt need to run away š If he is really far ahead of you, then yes you can totally run the other direction so he races back to you šGreat job!
TracyGood morning!
He is doing well here! Before adding the bar on the ground, see if you can fade out some of your movement and let him offer more – you can fade out your movement by taking a gentle step towards him, then rewarding him for moving his back feet without you continuing to move as well. He seems to have good experience on this so I bet he will be able to figure out the offering really nicely!!! If he can offer more without as much movement from you, then you can add the bar taped to the ground. The reason to get more offering before the bar is that he will be thinking about his back feet more, and about your movement less šGreat job!
TracyGood morning! He is doing well with all of these, so an overall comment is that you can move to the next step on all of them š That means either the advanced level, or the game from the next week. Here are some specifics:
Wing wraps – The next step here is to be able to get standing. Because he is small, you might want to sit in a chair for a session and if he can do it with you in a chair, then you can try it standing up. When you can stand up, the next step would be turn and burn!
Nice job with the slow turning on the plank! You can move to a longer plank as well as a slightly taller plank (maybe 6 inches off the ground or so). The taller plank is important so that he can jump on and off from the middle of it, as well as start to get used to some more height.
Turns on the flat – these were tandem turns. He is turning well from next to you, but now the next step is to have him start where he is NOT next to you – begin by tossing a cookie away for him to go get. Then as you are walking forward and he catches up, you can do the tandem turn. I am sure that will go well too, so you can move to the advanced level where the prop gets added in.
Strike a pose – he was coming in nicely to your target hand, but you were moving it. Try to look the target hand out and away from you, so he is a couple of feet way from you when he hits itā¦ then donāt move it š After he hits the target hand, you can show him the reward in the other hand. Because he is so small, you can do this one in a chair to establish the in-and-out line for him without having to bend over as much š It will also help if you have a target in your hand (not a cookie) so that he can bop the open hand rather than stop for a cookie š
Backing up: He is starting to get the idea of this one too! To get more steps backwards, two suggestions:
Keep your cookie hands lower (down at the top of your thighs) and toss the treats under his front feet after after he backs up. That way he begins to move back more and more – if the cookie is high and comes from your hand, he will take one step back and look up at you, like he did here.Nice work on all of these! They are all ready for the next steps š
Tracy
Good morning!
>>She is going to be so excited to see her dustbin!
Ha! It will be a joyful reunion LOL!
BIG thanks to the hubby for holding her – it allowed you to get a lot of speed on these 2 games, which looked like fun!
>>I think I may have been moving too fast during the parallel path. I got excited to get ahead of her! It is kinda cool that I need a helper to get ahead of this tiny muffin! <grin>>>
I thought it was great! Yes, you were going fast, but she didnāt seem to have any questions about it – in fact, she just went faster LOL! Nice job with. The toy throws, because she was not looking at you over the bar. The next step is to be a little further away, laterally, so she finds the jump even when you are 2 or 3 or 4 feet away from it.
She read the blinds on the collection sandwich perfectly!
>>I think I did not give her time to see any body language that communicated decel before I actually slowed down.>>
Yes – you had a little too much acceleration after the blind, so she thought you were going to keep moving forward which is why she ended up past you on the first rep, and jumped up a little on the other reps. So, after as you are doing the blind, you can also be decelerating so she sees it coming a couple of strides before she gets to you. That way she can decelerate sooner and turn – I think the jumping up was a version of stopping her forward momentum š She was pivoting beautifully when you started to turn, so it is just a matter of showing her the decel sooner.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
So if he is getting stuck on the mat or crate, you can put it in front of something he likes to release to: like a barrel LOL! Or going outside š So that he learns that he can hold position AND release to something as well.T
Good morning!
yes – you can see how the blow drying is working so nicely! So a consistent “trade ya” can help condition him to bring things and drop things, rather than grab stuff or run off with stuff š
Good morning!
He is doing a great job with his backing up!! Very clear foot movement and he is isolating each step. SUPER!!!At this point, you can ask him to back up onto a very low, under-inflated disc or low wobble board that barely moves – that will add a good challenge. The disc or wobble board should be low because he is still small and we donāt want him to have to lift his back feet up too high! And it should barely move, so he doesnāt get startled š But I believe he is ready for the added challenge!
Also, last night I posted the perch work/pivoting games – he can totally start that too, based on the strength of his backing up here.
Great job!!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! It is always so fun to see your Wednesday night train alongs haha!
The backside slices are looking really good, no problem going to the backside of the barrel! Nice! I bet you can start her from a stay as well.
It looks like she had no trouble with your line of motion to position 1 and position 2ā¦ so onwards to position 3 where you are on the far side of the jump bump (where the other wing would be).Threadle slices also look great! You can use a jump wing so she has something bigger to threadle into. One mechanics suggestions:
Try not to move at all with the ābowlā verbal, keep your shoulders locked in threadle position. :22 was perfect, you didnāt move at all – we donāt want to build in any shoulder motion to the jump on these.Starting from position 2? Easy peasy! Sitting closer to the bowl was a brain exploder for her but she made great choices especially at the end!!! Yay! So keep gradually inching towards the start position next to the bowl. And you an also go back to position 1 and replace the bowl with a toy on the ground š
On the 2nd video, she did well on the other side too! As with the first video, donāt move your relax your shoulder position til she is actually eating from the bowl – that way she doesnāt think there is a shoulder cue to take the jump (because on course you will be cuing it and running away, trusting her to take the jump on her own š
You can add the advanced level here too, contrasting the threadles with the serps š
The head turn game went super well!!! She is bendy both directions, and you got her to turn her head and create that lovely bendy shape. She seemed pretty balanced in both directions, maybe a little better to the right? And when you were clicking the head turn on the first send, the leading-with-the-head concept was beginning to transfer there as well. Yay! So keep revisiting this here and there, to really get her leading with her head. And you can check out the advanced level with the 360s!
Great job here!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Baby boy is getting really good with his barrel wraps!
He was hitting the barrel a little when you are presenting the toy right there, so you can start to add more distance and also delay showing him the toy til he is around the barrel (like in turn and burn, you can be moving away and then show the toy when he finishes the wrap.He was happy to commit even with you backwards! At 1:14 and 1:36 you were doing them more as threadle/lap turn, but on the backwards sending he is still going to go to the other side of the barrel (not a threadle).
He also did well with the rocking horses! Because we donāt need precision reinforcement on this game, you can stick the toy in your pocket or under your shirt, so your hands are free and you donāt switch the toy from hand-to-hand (which causes him to look at you and also delay the info).
On the rocking horses, remember to have that connected Hallmark moment š before sending him to the next barrel. If you donāt connect, he has questions about where to be like at 2:17.
Since his commitment is going well, I love that you are adding your verbals here! You had dig and check going hereā¦ but I couldnāt tell which was for which because you used them for both left and right wraps š So is dig for one direction and check for the other? The is ideal! Just remember to use both in the rocking horse, because the pup is turning both directions.
He is definitely loving his tunnel sends! For now, you donāt need to add the dig for the exit because it is going to be late (the exit verbals come when the pup is still 6 feet or more from the entry, but he was still hearing the ātunnel goā verbal there.
For the threadle entriesā¦ he is relying on your hand signals which means he is not ready yet for the verbal cue (we donāt really have the behavior yet, so we donāt want to name it yet). To help him turn himself away, start him in threadle position and hold his collar while you say tunnel a few times. Then when he looks at the tunnel, let go of him (and reward for tunneling). The collar hold gives him a moment to sort it out and also it takes out you needing to use arm cues (because we donāt want this behavior to require you to use big arm cues to turn him on the flat to face the tunnel).
When he is able to turn himself away, then you can add the verbal and the arm signal, but the arm signal is more of a threadle arm and not a tandem turn where the hands turn the dog (the pups turn themselves on threadles).
And after an error on any of these handling gamesā¦ donāt mark him as being wrong (a bunch of oopses were slipping in there :)) and use an immediate reset cookie so he doesnāt get frustrated when he is old he messed up something he doesnāt understand yet. He was getting grabby with the tunnel threadles but as soon as you started doing the reset rewards, he was less frustrated. When a dog fully understands something, the reset rewards are less importantā¦ but that is more like when the dog has been competing in Masters LOL!!!
Great job here! Looking forward to seeing you tonight!
Tracy
