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Hello and welcome! Punch sounds amazing 🙂 She won’t get expelled LOL! We will try to tire out her brain and body 🙂 I am looking forward to it!
TracyHi!
It looks like he has a lot of trouble processing the distractions outside of the ring (like the people, his rewards etc) so when the course turns away from the ring exit, he struggles especially on jumping lines. When the course turns away from the ring exit and it is a standard course – he did well with the contacts early in the course possibly because they have very high value.Things looked especially hard for him when it was only jumpers and when he ran part of the course and had to pass the exit gate… but then come back into the course. That made his head explode a bit! Is he in a coursework class? Or even if you practice running courses on your own – I would definitely work the remote reinforcement game to the point where the reward is outside the ring and he runs a sequence that circles him back past the exit and into the ring (a common challenge in AKC). You can also get him wilder on the way to the start line, as well as talk to him more during the run especially when the course turns towards the exit.
Let me know what you think!
TracyHello! Here are some ideas on this first set of videos. He basically did a GREAT job on these skills, with only a couple of questions here or there.
I grouped them by subject:
Jumping away 1:
Very nice! You can start him on an angle at 1 (closer to the dog walk) instead of straight on to it, so he doesn’t have to turn as much on jump 1 to land and find 2.Jumping away 1 backside –
Also very nice – you easily got up there to the backside! Be sure you don’t hide the backside wing at all, try to let him see the entire wing. He had trouble committing with the countermotion, so you can build the skill up by throwing the reward to the landing side as you run forward past the wing, to help convince him to commit even though you are leaving 🙂Jumping away backside 2:
He was more committed to the jump with the countermotion on the backside here! You were well ahead which is great, but freeze the video a :09 – you can see from this angle that you are not really showing the wing, so run a line that is more to where the bar and the wing meet. Add a little more connection to his eyes and i twill be perfect! he curled in to you a bit and barked because connection was forward and not showing the lineSlice towards the course: looking really good! He read 1-2 perfectly. You can decel and send (with your wrap verbal) & leave sooner to get further ahead and a tighter turn on 2 🙂
Slice away from course – this was a better angle to start on jump 1 – you can do a similar angle on the first few exercises here. He read it really well, and you can release him back to jump 2 after the threadle even sooner (totally fine to use a threadle verbal there).
Backside strategies:
Threadle Wrap 1 – I think on the threadle wraps, he is waiting for into and so you can be more obvious with the hand motions for the wrap especially as you run more. The hand cue looks a bit too much like a send, so you can try lowering it (or using 2 hands) and then flipping him away with a circular motion, to make it look really different from a send or or threadle slice arm.
Push wrap 1: very nice! As with jump 3 on the openings (above), you can show more of the wing: your position is where the wing meets the bar. And throw the reward to the landing spot as you leave – he does not want you to leave LOL!! I think it has to do with the countermotion where he would prefer to jump towards you rather than jump behind you. You can see more of that here in video 3:
Video 3 – push wrap – he commits really nicely when you are on the landing side when he is taking off (because he is jumping towards you) but that makes it harder to get way ahead on course or leave sooner. So you can get a bit further up the line and get to where the wing and bar meet – and move forward as he passes you to arrive at the backside. Then throw the reward to the landing spot so he starts to love the countermotion 🙂
The ‘in in’ looked really good!! You were able to move forward earlier on the last rep here, and that is great. He likes these better than the push wraps: he commits well on this one, even when you are moving past it on the takeoff side! My guess is that he can see the wing more clearly and reads it more as a send and less like countermotion.
Video 4: Push slice – he is doing well here too! You can be further across the bar now to get further ahead on course: try to move further over to be parallel to his line, but with you running no closer to the entry wing than the center of the bar. If you are with him at the entry wing, you will be in the way when he is landing 🙂
He did well with the threadle slice too! Be sure to step to the jump for one more step – you ran away very quickly from the threadle slice so he had a little question there. You can take one more step to the center of the bar and when he turns his head to the jump – that is the moment you can leave.
And it sounds like you have a different verbal for each of these: Perfect!!!
Video 5: threadle wrap in sequence went really well, he is doing GREAT with his various threadles!!!
You can move the timing up to be a stride or two sooner on the blind (do it so you are finished before takeoff of 4) which will allow you to start the in in cues as he is landing. I think he had a little question about hands here too, it was hard to set it with the one hand that looked like a send hand. You can try bringign your hand (or both hands) in closer to your leg, nice and low, then flip him away to the bar just before he arrives at your hands.Video 6: push wrap
He looked at you on these. This is a good angle to see his questions! Your timing was really good with the verbals! At :11, you were looking forward and blocking the wing a bit, so connection broke and he didn’t see the wing as well when he landed from 4… so he looked at you. He looked at you until he ended up on the takeoff side and you stopped moving, then he looked at the bar. A similar thing happened at :33 – you can see how your leg is past the edge of the wing and connection was broken so he had questions there too. Try to make a lot of eye contact on these sends (dog side arm back to his nose) and make sure you are showing the whole wing by running to where the wing and bar meet.Video 7 – VERY NICE threadle slice! You can see the clarity of connection at :13, the clear arm use, and he had a clear view of the line. Perfect!
Video 8 – he is going to the backside push slice really nicely – you can run closer to jump 3 and send to 4, which sets you up to be able to sent to the 5 backside from further away (running to the center of the bar) – so you can be passing theexit wing and out of the way of the landing spot when he needs to land. You were a little in the way three and ideally you would be well past the exit wing as he is landing.
Under the DW 1 and 2:
>>I attempted the others on a different day using a manners minder… a person with a cheese ball works better.>>
I think Grady thought this was the BEST GAME EVER hahaha You can have someone else throwing the cheese balls… but be sure she is not the target he is running too by moving her around to different places. That way he locks onto the jump you are cuing no matter where the cheese thrower is standing 🙂 He was GREAT on both of these but the placement of the cheese thrower made it all too easy LOL!!!
So for the next session, try that or you can be the cheese thrower 🙂Great job here! I will be back later with thoughts on the rest of the videos 🙂
Tracy
Hi!
This class will run through November 30th, at which point I switch over to full time MaxPup and Brain Camps 🙂
TracyHello and welcome to you and Caper! The Utah crew is here in full force 🙂 I am excited to see more!
Have fun!
TracyHi!
OMG BOSTON TERRIER <3 Bazinga is SO CUTE!! I had to watch the video several times because I was distracted by the cuteness.>> Please enjoy the bedhead! I really wanted you to see the first session with this object, so I’m being brave! >>
Thank you for posting! That’s is why I am posting a lot of “first sessions” as well – so you can see the good, the bad, and all the pajamas and bed head LOL!
On the video – great session! The tugging looks really good!! And it looks like she was happy to go back to the toy after the treats – that is lovely. You might want to put a yoga mat or carpet down so she has more grip when tugging.
No worries about a lure for the first rep, lures are fine! And then she was awesome with the foot smack after that. Perfect! And I love that you already have a ‘find it’ marker. The session went well and she was hitting the object with a lot of intention and passion. So on the next session, you can drop the “yes good girl” and just use your ‘find it’ and toss the treat, so she doesn’t really look at you at all.
>> I started with a different object, but I think I moved too quickly and she was showing frustration on session 2 of that object, so I changed out to a different object, to start fresh. This is our first session with the dustbin.>>
And that is why we use something silly like the dustbin to start. It allows us to sort out what w eneed to do for the pup, and if there is any frustration we can switch gears with no problem. It was brilliant of you to see that and make the changes. Click/treat for you!!!
We build on this game starting tomorrow. I am excited to see more of you and Bazinga!
Tracy
Hello and welcome!! HOORAY FOR TERRIERS!!! He is so cute <3
I love your chatter and silliness during the tugging. when the hat goes down... be silent 🙂 You can give a 'yes' then deliver the treat, but then I want you to be shhhhhhhhhhh If you are too exciting during shaping, he will be drawn up to you and look up at you too much. So you can party hard during the tugging like you did 🙂 but then be very calm and boring and quiet during the shaping.
He was hitting the hat really well! You can try the placement of reinforcement that I did with my Ramen puppy: when Huck hits the hat, say "get it" then toss the treat to the side (then be quiet). That way he is getting treats and offering on the hat, and not looking at you or your hands.
Great job! I am excited to see more of you and Huck!
TracyHellllooooo to you and LaLa! I am excited to see her! I think we have a lot of her family here and some other awesome baby Goldens too – it will be FUN!!!!
Tracy
Hello and welcome! He is adorable!
Stays are not required LOL! We will train them here at some point 🙂 I am excited to see baby Casper!
It will be a Farmdog party here, so fun!!
TracyWelcome!!! I am excited to see Pocket! I see his ‘first momma’ all the time and his littermate. One of the demo dogs here is “related” in that he is a Quicksilver dog too LOL!!
Have fun!Tracy
