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Sounds good!!! I am sure she will figure it out quickly, she is a brilliant girlie 🙂 Keep me posted!
Hi! So much good stuff on these!!
She seemed very happy with the wobble board cushion setup here! It looked more like regular play, and she was not concerned about it at all – all feet were going all the places LOL!! You can try some cookie shaping with this setup now – click/treat for getting on it with all feets 🙂 You can add another cushion or bed, for more room to get all of her feet on.
Plank – she was very confident on the plank here too, and your mechanics of getting her to turn looked really good – slow and low hand. Nice!
>>as soon as she had the idea of stepping off she didn’t really try to not step off
yes, I can see that she was tight on her left turns then started stepping off… it is possible that she did a couple of brilliant ones then just kind of lost the coordination of it. No problem! Try it a gain in a couple of days and I bet latent learning kicks in nicely. If you have a longer board, you can try this outside with the board more elevated.
Aha, here is the more elevated plank in the next video! LOL! Yes, it was a little wobbly but she seemed fine with it: plenty of cushion and the elevation made it very clear for her to get all four feet on. It might move a little too much to add in turning around, but you can certainly try to stabilize it more and try turning around. It is high enough that it is easier to stay on than to step off!
Backing up: This is going pretty well – true, it is not easy, but you are beginning to see a few steps backwards! She definitely has to think hard about it 🙂 And I like that she was keen to come in close to you as part of playing this game 🙂 So keep going with this plan, because it is building the backing up and also building comine close to you 🙂 The only suggestion is to not add the verbal cue quite yet – wait til she cango 5 or 6 stepsbackwards then we can add the cue. There are other ways to teach backing up but this way teaches her to love coming in close to you too!
Parallel path – looks like you lined her up with a hand touch to start, love it!!! Her targeting to the prop looks great. My only suggestion is to say “get it” instead of yes when you mark the hit and toss the reward. She is looking straight, and the yes tends to get the pups looking at us. The ‘get it’ helps them continue to look forward. You can add a little more room by taking this outside, which will also add more speed 🙂
Countermotion: she was hitting the prop really well on your right side! She had to think for a moment on your left but then sorted it out, good girl!! To add more speed to the behavior and to be able to start moving the other direction even sooner, you can start closer to the prop and engage her with the ready dance and eye contact – then when you send, she will see the very clear cues of your arm, leg and eyes shifting to the prop. That will help her drive away faster, so you can start moving the other direction even sooner.
The rear cross game is indeed SUPER challenging which is why it starts on a prop and not a jump 🙂 You were sending and then trying to cut in behind her, which made the cutting in to the new side late so she didn’t turn the new direction on most of the reps. Think of the rear crosses as an extension of the parallel path game: you’ll start moving up the line with her, and she is likely to drive ahead to the prop – so then when she is halfway to the prop, you can changes sides behind her and she will turn the new direction. I think you will need to be outside to do this, so you have enough room to get her driving ahead on the parallel path game so then you can add in rear crosses.
Nice work on all of these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHa! That makes sense that the vacuum noise would sound like that. And yes, totally better than no training! Can’t wait for winter to be over!
Hi! I think you started at a level 300 distraction here when we want a level 2 ideally LOL! She was a very god girl!!!
To set her up for more immediate success, start a lot further away so she can engage sooner and doesn’t need any prompting. The reason we don’t want the prompting is that a cue doesn’t teach her to self-regulate in the same way as juts letting her do it does. So you can start as soon as you get out of the car, that is probably pretty far.Then youcan get closer.She is still pre-adolescent so she did really well (which is exactly why we are starting these games with the baby dogs!!!) When she is a teenager, it will be harder for her (brain development in adolescent dogs is quite the adventure!) but we will have built up that resilience muscle that you will probably see a ton of good self-regulation.
The game posted this week has more info on the self-regulation and adding hard disractoins, so she will have a much easier time and will build on her successes here 🙂
Nice work!!!
TracyHi!
So on the handling combos, she was not going to the cone and was going behind you to the reinforcement instead? Yes, good move to use the Manners Minder! You can also leave the MM out behind you, and reward at the cone with cookies or toys, to get more value onto the cone in the presence of the reinforcement 🙂Tracy
Good morning!
>>I did take your rec and move the first jump to 8 and the second to 12 for a warm-up but I was getting 100% bounce jump at 12 and consistently adding a stride at 8. If you think I should go back to 8, I will do so. I have been starting her at 12 b/c she has been consistent with the bounce.>>
Interesting! Send a video, I want to see what she is doing 🙂 My guess is the 8″ bar doesn’t stimulate her to use her hind end, so she is all chill about it then has to add the stride to get over 12″ 🙂 So you can use an 8″ to a 12″ as a set point to ask her to use her hind end even when the bar is not stimulating LOL! It can be an angled set point, with a shorter distance of maybe 5 or 5.5 feet. The goal would be to say to her “Wink, please ALWAYS use her hind end please and thanks” 🙂
But for these zig zags, as we tighten things up and raise the bars, stay with 12″ minimum.
>>Today was the first day that she ticked a few bars. I didn’t notice them but my friend told me.
Actually…. I think she was hearing something else. More below. These sessions were good!
>>Regarding the push to the backside, where should I be starting? I noticed that I was moving further back b/c I would normally send my dog from a distance and then today I thought, “Maybe Tracy wants me to be in the middle of the first bar for proofing?” Also, walking or running?>>
Because the backside version of the zig zag grid is still very new for her, the key is to be super predictable with your position and motion for now, til she says “HOLD MY BEER” and is very consistent about it. Then you can add more challenge to it in terms of your position as a “proofing” thing or getting way ahead or being behind. You were starting in the middle where the 2 wings meet, and for most of the reps you were moving fast which was great! When you moved slowly or changed your start position, she had questions. We don’t want to change too much about what you do at first, because that will be too much for her to process while doing this pretty wicked grid (your friend mentioned how impressive it was on the first Tuesday video, and she is correct!! It is a freakin’ hard grid and Wink did well!!!)
>>Right now, I am just looking for bounce jumping and knocked/ticks bars. Wink sometimes looks awkward to me but I am no expert in jumping.>>
The number 1 thing we are looking at is her approach to the bars – what is her hind end doing, where is her head, is she balanced or inverted? (Spoiler alert, she is doing well! More below 🙂 ) If her form is good, then she is likely to bounce jump if the spacing is correct. Then yes the next thing we look at – is she touching the bars? And if she is, where is she touching them and why? She didn’t touch any bars on these videos due to any jumping struggles. All of it is harder to see in the moment and easier on video for sure! Here are specifics:
Front side zig zags: she is doing really well with these! She is slightly better going from her left to right (when she is in your left) than she is going from her right to her left (on your right). It looks like an easier, more powerful jumping effort when she in your left (more hind end power, lower head, a little more curve to the spine) and she has to work a little harder when she is on your right (head a tiny bit higher, more thinking happening) but both are really strong! And both were better when you moved faster (ran more than walked, she liked that a whole lot and did not lose her form. SUPER!) She had only one question consistently in these sessions:
When you led out, put the toy on the ground, and remained upright before releasing and moving, she was consistently strong.When you led out, put the toy on the ground, then crouched before the release: she consistently ticked the first bar. That crouch is a bit of a ‘game on’ position that stimulates her and causes her to lean forward… then in this grid she does not have the time or space to shift back before the first jump, so she ticks the bar. Looking at the left rep of the 3rd Tuesday zig zag video, you were off camera, but you must have been crouching a bit because you can see her leaning in and twitching.
So, you can note that and proof it on a jump when she has more room to make an adjustment. For these where there is no room, try not to crouch 🙂 You can put the toy on the ground, start to move it and run forward, and *then* release her – that is a great challenge for her 🙂
You have 2 choices on how to build on this:
You can flatten the angle even more til it is almost totally flat
You can keep the angle same as it was here and put the bars at 14 then at 16.I would work both of them in separate sessions, spread out by a couple of days.
Backside zig zags -yes, these are hard and might have some awkward moments as she tries to solve the puzzle, but she was great!
On these, it also seemed like she had an easier time on your left side (2nd video) and had a hrder time on your right side (first video). So either she needed that first video to sort out what this new puzzle was, or she is more comfy working on your left than your right (regardless of which way she would turn). Either way, she did really well here!
On the first set of videos, she was a little awkward on the first 2 reps on the first 2 videos, then on the 3rd rep she sorted out how to approach with using her hind end the same way we would want to see her use it on a plank organizer – then it was smooth sailing. She was still sorting out how to use her front end (slightly different approach with her front end on the 2nd video), but all good – no big struggles so we just let her solve the puzzle.
Tuesday session1, on your right, left to right: You friend is correct, it is impressive. And yes, it is hard but that is the challenge of the grid – it is not going to look easy 🙂
Watching in slow motion, she was consistent on where she was putting herself over the bars and how she was using her hind end. Yay! She did have a legit question though, at 1:48 for example: you changed what you were doing and you moving more slowly on that (and the previous) rep, so she might have had a legit question of “am i really supposed to accelerate when you are decelerated like that?” and ticked the first bar. So for now, just keep your motion and position the same so she doesn’t ask questions as she is working the grid.The same thing happened at the end of the 2nd push video from Tuesday at 1:55 – you had all the excitement as if you were going to run then when you sent her, you walked…. so she was trying to process the grid AND also your motion. Let’s have you run the whole time, so she doesn’t need to process any change of motion for now.
There was discussion about bar ticking on these clips…. I listened a few times and there is a metallic jingling sound but not nails ticking the bar except the 2 spots where she had a question about your motion. Maybe collar tags jingling? or maybe something jingling as you moved? Santa arriving early? LOL! Hard to tell what it was, but it was not nail ticks because it was also happening before you sent her and while you were tugging LOL! So no worries about excessive ticking, I think her efforts were really quite clean!
On these backsides, you can send from where you were in the center, and run to the reward target – keeping your position and motion the same – and raise the bars to 14 🙂
Let me know what you think! Have fun!
TracyHi! He did well on these!
On the wraps, he did well – the only question he had was more about a noise in the background, I think, and not a jumping question. At :15, there is a rumbling that gets loud, like tennis balls in a dryer LOL!! The rest were really good!So for the wraps, you can go to the fading steps – I like to use both methods to fade the sit and fade the plank, but not in the same session.
On the slices, he had a couple more questions about the sit – they were largely when he was on your left for the serp or threadle and especially when you are past the jump (he had a question on your right but I think that was more about a late sit cue). So it is possible he needs you to move more slowly when he is on your left so you are not quite as far ahead yet, so he doesn’t get as frozen especially in the face of the glorious PT out ahead LOL!
He will probably only need one more session of these as well, and then you can start the fading on the slices too. Yay!
Great job!
TracyGood morning!
The stays with the catches and OK releases all looked good! I liked her attitude here: relaxed, solid in the stay, and keen to play. Super! You were really good with the lead outs, connection, releases. Try to vary your duration more: dogs are brilliant about figuring out patterns and anticipating, and you took 3-4 steps away on every rep except 1, where you took a couple more steps. We don’t want her to think that the stay means “mom takes 3 steps, settles into position on step 4, then looks at me and releases” because she will start to anticipate, self-release, then get confused & frustrated when told she is not correct.
So the way to avoid this is to be a lot more variable: take 3 steps. Then on the next rep, 5 steps. Then on the next rep, 2 steps. Then 7 steps, then 1 step, then 3 steps, then 2 steps, then 10 steps, and so on. Count to yourself so you don’t end up in the 3-step pattern 🙂
I like that she was offering the sit, it tells us where she is in terms of engagement and arousal. It was like you did an unspoken: “are you ready?” And she responded with the sit, saying “yes I am”. Sure, you can add the sit verbal as long as you are sure she will respond like this the first time you ask for it.
Handling combos:
Ah yes, snow sliding off the roof would definitely be worrisome, it sounds like a tornado! The pattern game that we add today can help with that, to relieve any concerns she might have about new/different/possibly scary things. When she is worried, there is need to try training skills; it is more important to do resilience games and support her (or get her out of the environment if it is all too hard).Two things we know about adolescent brain develop:
– they are more sensitive to sounds and movement than they were as puppies and they will be as adults, so it is important to help her relieve any worry or get her out of the situation if it is too hard.
– it takes them twice as long to ‘return too baseline’ after a stimulation of the HPA axis (stress hormones) so after something worrisome, she might need to go home and sleep it off and have some decompression time, far more than she did as a wee puppy or any of the adults would need.The joys of adolescence! We can’t change the brain development, but we can sure support the teenagers 🙂
Looking at the games: try to edit them less so I can see more of the reinforcement happening 🙂
On the first couple of reps, you had really nice connection after the FC and great timing of the go verbal. I think the toy was too far away and she was like “GO WHERE MOM” and had to slow down to find it. So as you add the GO verbal, you can have the toy closer.On rep 3 at :08, you were super late with the blind to your left side and so she didn’t see the info in time and continued on her line to the toy. Hopefully you told her she was 1000% correct and had a party… because she was.
You were not as late on rep 4, so she found the side change but had to do a zig zag to get it. And on the last rep, she was on to you did less of a zig zag.
So to get the timing sooner, you can start further from the barrel now – that way you can start the FC before she even arrives at the barrel, and the do the BC before she exits the barrel. She is really fast (yay!) so we can start looking at timing.
I think you also had your wrap verbals happening there: click/treat to you!!!!
Ladder work: Yes, she wanted to do the whole thing because going slow is HARD and uncomfortable (look at her ear set and tail set LOL!) – so going faster uses momentum and she doesn’t need to think as much about her hind end. You can see her hopping her back feet along a little as she got faster. So, try to have her go back and forth across the center, sloooooowly. It is only one gap but slow is hard – but totally worth it for balance and also so she gets happy to touch different surfaces.
Tunnel threadle: While yes, she might have been a little distracted by her buddy Sid making some squeaky noises 🙂 I think it was more of a lefty versus righty issue here. Note how she got every single right turn threadle send here (unless there were other errors you edited out. And she had questions about every left turn tunnel threadle.
I think you were too far from the entry on the threadle side on the left turn entries. She seemed fine with the right turn entries with you in the center of the tunnel, but definitely not on the left turn entry side. She was fine sending to the left turn entry here, but the processing is different on a sed versus a threadle. The send is pretty natural for the pups and the threadle is a turn away which is not as natural and requires more coordination because she has more lead changes to do.
So to get the left turn threadles going, you can start much much closer to the entry, almost in front of the entry, so she really doesn’t have to do a lot to get into it. You were halfway down the tunnel here, which was too hard for the left turn entries and not hard at all with the right turn entries. Eventually you can get to the same spot for both threadles, but for now the left turn entries will stay closer. If you see a question or failure from her, start closer to the entry to help her out. I don’t think you need to use the 3 foot tunnel if you start closer to the entry, but you can certainly use it is you want to! Bear in mind that the 3 foot tunnel might make the threadle harder because the “wrong” entry is far more visible no matter where you stand.
Looking at the lap turns: she is doing well! It was hard to tell is she didn’t have a lot of speed coming to the hand because she didn’t love driving in to the hand… or if she was basically starting so close to the hand there was no reason to run hard. So on all of your get it cookies tosses that start the next rep, throw them much further away so she can turn and run to you. When you tossed them 2 or 3 feet away, she turned around and you were right there, so there was no running that could happen.
For the prop – it should be further out away from you, so she has a more direct path to you without having to go over the prop. Ideally, she would have a straight line to you then after the turn away, she would be further from you (because she has turned) and then has a relatively straight line to the prop. Because she was ignoring the prop to get to you, she was also ignoring it after the turn. So if you are facing her and using your left hand to call her to you, have the prop 4 or 5 feet away from her line to you, on your left side. Let me know if that makes sense!
Great job!!
TracyGood morning!
I am so glad you are having fun! You and Sid are rocking these games; thank you for being so receptive to playing these crazy games 🙂>>The boy always seems to feel the need, the need for speed, so I loaded the extended ladder with cookies, and added a slow walk through with him. Was better.
Yes! These pups are alike: slow and coordinated? That’s DUMB! Let’s go FAST FAST FAST hahahaha so we have to figure out ways to slow them down to get them to be coordinated and balanced, rather than just using their momentum to fly through things.
The longer ladder and cookie use was effective here – he was putting his feet in each gap, and I think he was beginning to feel the difference between the balanced trot and going too fast/being off balance. He tried to go faster in the middle of the video, and stopped himself, almost as if saying “well that felt icky”. So, keep doing this maybe once a week (eventually we add harder things like backing up through the ladder :))
>>The resilience game, LOL, right now the cookies would get lost in the snow! Sid is LOVING the powdery snow! I need to coordinate taking it elsewhere, finding a fairly cleared parking lot would be okay?>>
Yes, a parking lot would be good, or even a car trip to a place like PetSmart if you have one close enough. More ideas on what to do with this game coming today 🙂
The bigger tunnel looked great! He only had one question when he found a cookie on the floor 🙂 He was easily able to drive to the tunnel, and yes, I agree that a tunnel verbal will be clearer than a get in verbal. He also did well when you put him on the threadle side at the very end, no trouble turning away from you. That will eventually be an entirely different verbal 🙂 He was a bit tired by the end, so it was fine to let him be done. He has done a lot of training lately and might have needed a brain break, especially because his friends were there and that makes it hard 🙂
One other thing I notice… He is an interesting character: he can’t quiet look at you when you say ready, but he is for sure ready. I had a dog like that (couldn’t look at me when I was doing the ready set before a send) and it is fine… it is the pup’s way of coping with the excitement and pressure. But he always gets it right, so he doesn’t have to look at you or the tunnel.
>>He’s SO fun to work with, my other BC was sooooo serious about everything, Sids just a clown! He keeps me from taking everything too seriously!>>
Yes, he is so fun to watch! So many adventures ahead!!
Great job here :)
TracyGood morning! I am so glad he had a fun time at the trial, he sounds like such a confident little guy 🙂
Strike a pose was looking really good! I was thinking you would need to be sitting on something because he is so little, but you got it done beautifully while standing. His drive to your hand target was great! When you went back to the original side (target in your right hand) in the middle of the session, he did consider skipping the hand target to go to the cookie hand 🙂 but he sorted it out and did it well. He was perfect with the target in your left hand!
Your reward delivery was great in that you used your hand position to draw him across your feet, just like he was finishing the in-and-out of a threadle. Super nice!!! You can try this with a toy if you think the toy will be enticing enough without you moving, but it might be better to try it with an empty food bowl on the ground past your feet (in the direction that your feet are pointing). That way he can hit his target then you can drop the treat in the bowl. This sets us up to eventually add movement and fade the reward from your hand. Let me know if that makes sense or if I need more coffee to explain it haha
Turn and burn also went well! You are structuring your sessions really well: nice warm up, reset to get the toy but lifting up the barrel so he could have a fresh start, then into turn and burn and exciting toy play. Click/treat for you!
Yes, he wanted the cookies at first – an easier way to get him on the toy is to tie 3 or 4 of your toys together into one super long toy, so then you can easily drag them around for him to chase, without the pressure of you leaning over or him needing to come in really close (neither of which are his favorite thing).
He did a good job offering it: part of the challenge is getting him to ignore the toy to do the barrel wrap, and he did it! He seemed to want to start it on a right turn (you were asking for a left turn) so on the next session, start with him on your left so he can turn right, and see if that is easier to jump start it. It is a hard behavior at first but then it will lock into place and be super easy 🙂
At the barn today, start off easy, maybe 50% easier than you think he can do. There are two reasons for that:
– to be absolutely sure that he gets a high rate of reinforcement and trying to avoid errors or frustration entirely, mainly so that he gets a happy, relaxed conditioned emotional response to being in the training environment. If we push puppies too hard and they fail and get frustrated, they end up with a more negative emotional response to being there, which we definitely don’t want!
– he has far more things to deal with in the environment and might not be able to do the fancy things he can do at home. The space, smells, cold, jacket if he is wearing one, the car ride, the texture of the footing, his brother barking in the car 🙂 and so on…. his puppy brain needs to process all of that and try to prioritize training. So hard!
So keep it easy at first. If he says he is ready for more, you can go to the harder stuff, then towards then end: make it really easy again for his brain and body, because he is going to be tired. We generally try for the hard stuff at the end but I like to put the harder stuff in the middle or towards the beginning, so the pup is less tired 🙂
Great job here! Let me know how today goes!
TracyHi!
The leg bumps with treats went well. It was a good intro to it – I think he thought maybe it was a little odd, and he was like “Ok, this is different, but I am happy to eat your treats” LOL!!!!Adding the toy was a whole different game! It got him really stimulated and that is great, because he can learn to use good body awareness even when he is really stimulated. The only thing I would add is gently holding his collar as you move to the toy to the other side of you, so he can’t start til you are ready. When the toy is past your other leg, let him go 🙂 That will help get the game set up, and also add a little extra challenge because the anticipation will cause him to want to explode forward, but he will also learn to have body awareness even when he is amped up 🙂
Ladder work – this ladder is really tall which made it really hard, so he was trying to go faster to get through it – and that changed his balance. Try to slow him down by having your hand near his nose – then hand him a cookie after he puts a foot in each gap between rungs. It will be really hard, but he is ready for that. We don’t want speed here, we want to convince him to put a foot in each gap, slowly. Cookies will help him want to do that 🙂
The resilience game looks really good! He did well without distractions and you were patient when you added the distraction: you let him investigate then tossed the treat when he re-engaged. Perfect! Then the distraction was no longer a distraction 🙂 If it is not too cold or snowy, take this game outside and on leash. The next step coming tomorrow takes the game on the road 🙂
Handling combo: I love the energy here! So fun! It sounds like you added a wrap verbal (noise) to the barrel: perfect! He was also great about ignoring the toy to go to the barrel, then driving to the toy after the wrap. Super!!!
Two things to add for your next session:
– You were doing post turns here (starting on your left and turning with him so he exited on his left), You can add in a front cross, where he sends to the barrel from your left side and as he is committing, you rotate towards him and pick him on your right side (and vice versa, starting on your right and ending on your left). That challenges him to pay attention to side changes (and challenges you to be early and connected :))– you can replace the ‘get it’ for the toy with a GO GO GO verbal. Since he is driving straight so nicely, we can begin to add the directional that you will use on straight lines on course.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning! Lots of good work here!!
Looking at the 2 strike a pose games:
He definitely has strong drive to the target hand! Super! You can add in having your target hand extended even further from your leg – have your arm out and elbow locked in as much of a 90 degree angle away from you as possible (you might have to lean over so your hand is low enough for him to hit it, for now :))With the cookies, when you rewarded from your other hand out across you like at 1:00 and 1:11, that was really great to get the full come-in-go-out motion of the serp. Yay! So keep rewarding like that (from your hand) and then you can toss another cookie to start the next rep.
With the toy, you can use the toy in the other hand so he comes across you like he was doing with the cookie and wih the toy here, then toss a cookie to re-start the next rep. When you didn’t toss the start cookie, he was not always sure where to look or go.
You can also add in a ‘toy ni hand’ marker like “bite” – when you said get it, he was a little confused as to whether you were going to throw it or not.Tunnel games – He definitely likes the tunnel! Yay! You will want to get a bigger tunnel soon so he can go even faster. He had no problems turning away to get into it. Super! One question: what is your tunnel verbal cue? I think you are saying get in but it sounds like get it. He didn’t have any questions but we want to make sure the verbals are clear.
On the turn away videos:
He is doing really well in both videos of the tandem turn on the flat! You were using less luring/less hand in front of his nose on the 2nd video as you moved down the line, so keep going with fading out the hand in front of him the whole time. You can still use your hands right in front of him for the actual turn moment, but I don’t think he needs you to have them in front of him the whole time. You can also add more speed by starting with a cookie toss so h get the cookie and drive back to you… and as he is approaching you, your hands can get low and visible, as you decelerate, and you can then turn him away.He did really well when you added the prop in too! He was at his bst whne you were moving on the line towards the prop after the turn away, rather than stopping and sending (and then tossing the reward out ahead for the prop). Then after that reward, you can reset yourself on your line, and start the next rep with another cookie toss. When you tried to get into the next rep using the reward as the start toss, you were ending up a little out of position so he ran over the prop to get to you: idally, you would be set up on your line before he starts moving towards you, so a cookie toss to start will help (and he won’t be sad about extra cookies LOL!)
One other suggestion: when you switch sides, move the prop to the other side so he can see it on his line when he finishes the turn away, rather than cutting in front of you to get it.
The stays are going really well!!! I think he was not sure if you wanted a sit or down, so we can clarify that for him. If you are going with whichever position he offers, be sure to release forward or toss the reward back before he changes position. The other option is to cue a position – but still release/reward before he changes position. Rewarding position changes on stays can be a slippery slope LOL! so we want him to be successful and stay in one position.
If the down is the more comfortable and successful stay position, the down is a great option for a start line stay!
And he really liked it when you tossed the toy back to him – it helped him ignore the distraction he was looking at and he did well with the stay!!
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyI am glad you are having fun! I love that you post the blooper videos too because they teach us a whole lot!
THi!
>>Didn’t you mention on the Wednesday call that to help bring them into you, you can throw the toy back past you?
Yes – for the herding types (cough cough BORDER COLLIES cough cough) yes, we throw a treat or toy straight back.
>> I was wondering if it’s better to throw the toy or if I should up the food reward so it’s more valuable for coming into my pressure.
Throw it, to relieve the pressure that he doesn’t naturally love, and to add the movement which he DOES naturally love.
Have fun! Great job on these!
Tracy
