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She was jumping this nicely! You can totally use a sit verbal cue:
For the organizer on the wraps, keep asking for the sit because without the sit cue… she is allowed to not sit and that is part of how we fade the plank 🙂On the next session, use the sit cue and do a FC instead of a post turn. That should allow you to rotate sooner so you are rotating and moving the other way, like you would on course, while she is getting organized for takeoff 🙂 If she is happy with that, then we can start fading the plank!
On the front slices:
>> I’m guessing my organizer needed to be closer!>>
Yes, a little closer so she doesn’t need to put her front feet on the grass. That will really emphasize hind end! When you re-did the game with the toy, she was still adding that jumping to her right, but not to her left – she was jumping directly from the plank. Yay! So you can move the plank a little closer to the center of the bar and see if that helps her on the right side too.
She also did not add the touch to the grass when you were closer to the center of the bar when you released (and not past the exit wing). Compare :38 to :06 and you can see how she changed her jumping based on your position.
On the next session, keep moving the whole time, so you don’t decelerate or stop as you cue the sit. That will be challenging, so be sure to move very slowly 🙂 and release before you get past the exit wing. Then when she sits, you can release her (no cookies in position) so you are in motion the whole time but not too far ahead, Let me know if that makes sense 🙂
Nice work!!
TracyHi!
He did really well with the organizers on the slices! I know the space is tight, but I think on the next step you can add more motion by starting closer to him so you can move faster without running out of room 🙂 You can also raise the bar to the next cup! I think if he is happy with more motion, then we can start moving to the fading stages on the slices!
He totally had a WTF face when you rotated way on the wraps LOL!!! Ha! So when you release him, you can look to the landing and point at the landing. That can help – and the toy should be in the dog side hand, so when you use the ‘new’ hand (after rotation) to point to the landing spot after the release, your hand will be empty.
Those looked like 8 inch bars? When he no longer gives you the WTF look, you can raise the bars to 10″ 🙂
Great job here!!
TracyHi!
Yes, it was hard for him today – it looks like you started a little further away (your heels at the edge of the 2nd and 3rd square), whic hwas a little too far away so he was spinning then going to the mat. You moved back in closer and it helped because the last couple of reps were really good!I looked back at the previous video of backing up to see what was different, and you were not visible so it was hard to tell where you were. Once his back feet got to a certain distance he had trouble there too but his position was not all that different from today’s video.
So it is possible that it was just a typical young dog brain moment: they can do something one day, but can’t do it the next day. That is pretty normal! When you see that you can make the game a lot easier and get closer, then end the session so that his brain can rest for next time LOL!! then give the behavior a day off, and try again and I bet he is great! Start closer to the destination to make it easier, then you can gradually extend the distance over a series of sessions, rather than in one session 🙂
Nice work! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
He did well with the retrieve game too – it looked like he was going to maybe take the toy for a run on the 2nd rep, but then you moved your position to maybe block the view of the environment he was looking at – and then he was perfect 🙂 So you can gradually move yourself over so that you are limiting his area less and less, while still convincing him to retrieve 🙂
You can also cue him to ‘go fo ra run’ and he can take a victory lap with the toy, then call him back. This is a great way for the pups to get a brain break in training 🙂
Nice work!
TracyGreat job getting the toy very exciting! He did well here! You can also give him a little boring cookie in the midle of the line of objects, and even have him slowly turn around in the middle, to keep working his body awareness. I think the barking of his brother i the background and his sister nearby was causing him too much distraction – his feet were a little all over the place on some of the reps unless you went slowly. So in order to add a little more speed, try to not have any audience unless they are quiet and not nearby LOL! Puppies have trouble focusing their full attention, so we limit distractions when they have to think about where their feet are 🙂
Nice work!
TracyHi! He is showing really strong commitment!! Yay!! 2 suggestions for you:
After you finish tugging and before the send, do a little ready-set dance with him before you send him, then you can do a big dramatic send. He was not quite sure when to start without that ‘ready’ dance, so he was a little tentative. And you can reward the ‘almost’ moments where he goes almost all the way to the prop 🙂 And then get closer on the next rep so he can go all the way to it.On the next session, you can have the toy in your hand the whole time. Yes, it will be harder 🙂 but it helps teach him self-control. So scrunch it up in your hand and b ecloser to the prop… and I bet her is perfect 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHi!
Very nice job showing a clear decel! You were walking with big steps then went to small steps, so she was able to collect nicely! And you did that nicely too when you added jogging.
And yes, reward nice and close to your leg as Lisa mentioned – but also, with BCs, we go to the pivot really early in the training because without the pivot, the BC butts swing out (as you saw LOL!) and with the pivot, she was perfect 🙂I mentioned this to Lisa too – train this handling flatwork stuff without jumps nearby – eventually she will be taking those jumps on her line and we don’t want her to learn to ignore them. So, a clear floor is perfect!
Great job here!
TracyHowdy! Can you break the cheese puffs into smaller bits, so maybe she only needs one chomp and not chomp chomp chomp chomp LOL!
Hi! He looked great here!
Looking at the turn and burn game: he was just about perfect on all of the right turns, and he was letting you leave earlier and earlier. His left turns were not quite as strong as the right turns – he had the little oopsie when you rotated earlier than he was ready for, and in general you were rotating a little later than on the right turn reps. And that is fine, because it is normal that one side is a little stronger than the other. A couple of ideas for you:
on the right turns (starting on your left): you can start where you were, a little further back from the object – and do the FC to move the other way just as he arrives at it, but do it at a walk on the first couple of reps. Leaving earlier AND running might be a bit too much haha! So start off walking then if he is fine, you can job. Your goal for the next session is to do the FC and run the other way *before* he arrives at the wrap object for those right turns.
For the left turns, when he is on your right to start – do the FC a little sooner, but you will probably need to wait til he has arrived at the object and turned his head to his left. You might be able to begin the FC sooner and sooner on that side, but as with the right turns: dial back you motion to a walk at first. And if he can’t quite match his left turns to his right turns? No problem, the left turns will catch up 🙂
The backing up is looking good!!!! He was producing his best form when you were stationary and using cookies. He was producing a lot of excitement when you were tugging… but he had some interesting form moments LOL! He was almost trying to walk backwards on his front feet to drop his back feet on the wobble board. So, we can split the difference: start with the some tugging to increase arousal, but then bring out the treats and reward with food. That can hopefully help him work in a higher arousal state without losing form.
He seems super confident on the wobble board, and that is great because we can use it as a way to help him learn about body awareness and balance even when he is all amped up 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHooray for posting! Lots of great work here!
Nice job building up the collar holds!!!! Instead of dropping the toy then walking him by his collar, keep him where he is and throw the toy – that’ll help the collar hold he a lot more of a game starter 🙂
He plucks the toy a bit so if he does not run away, you can count to 3 and then go in and play. He actually brought it to you on the 2nd rep!!!!
In moments like that, when he is doing a great job, you can break up tue session and add in a “go for a run” cue to build in the decompression before he takes the decompression 🙂 you’ll need to take the line off the toy, but I think he is ready for that.
You can also talk to him more while he is playing, and add a bit of Go Go Go while he is driving forward to the toy. I think he is also ready for you to be moving forward as soon as you let him go here, rather than waiting til he gets to the toy.
For the decel game, try to do it with no jumps around because he really should be taking the jumps on this line on the way back to you. But since we don’t want him jumping yet, a clear floor will be easier 🙂
He made pretty good use of his back end here – he was at his best when there was a clear transition to decel. If you were walking then went into a pivot, he was a little wider. But it you showed a decel, he was much tighter and bendier, like at 1:12. So you can toss the cookie and jog away, rather than walk – then as he begins to move towards you, show him a dramatic slow down before he gets to you to pivot. Then I think he’ll be perfect! And you can add the blinds in now too 🙂
He is doing well on the prop!!! Stay close for now as the other variables change – don’t add distance too quickly, he had questions especially when you changed your position.
Also, remember to add that ready dance before each and every rep because it raises arousal (we like that high arousal in the training stages!) and keeps him learning to go from handler focus to line focus.On the last video: This was not a mess! It was really good to figure out what helps him. He did fine with the exercise.
This was a very hard environment, holy cow!!! My main suggestion is that I would start with a pattern game here as you move into the ring, to move him from that divided attention to a relaxed selective attention, before asking for tugging or training. The pattern game in the 2 most recent resilience games will work nicely!And the wrap shaping targets are actually a pattern game too, which is why he focused so nicely when you did that! I would start with the pattern where he can look at the environment, though rather than at targets, so he can assess the environment and and re-engage when he is ready.
One thing that was interesting here was that when you were exciting with tugging, the other dogs got ramped up, making the environment harder for him. We don’t want him to associate that concern with tugging (“when I play, the other dogs get all weird, that makes me uncomfortable”) so you don’t have to tug in that environment! You can help him by keeping the other dogs quiet by not tugging, for now 🙂 eventually it will be easier for him to ignore.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
Super nice retrieve session here! You started calling him back to you with a lot of fun encouragement sooner and sooner… so his retrieve got fast and faster 🙂 YAY!!!! You can tug a little longer before you take his collar and take the toy away for the next throw – we want to be sure that he gets highly rewarded for such great retrieves, instead of being put back to “work” LOL!
On this video, a lot of your tugging was with your hands down by your waist – I really liked how that looked for you both! He had better neck position and was using his rear more. And I wasn’t worried that he was going to bop your nose by accident. So definitely keep the hands low when tugging.
Great job on all of these!
TracyThis one had more tugging – and we could see more of him here too 🙂 I totally want to go with my previous suggestion of keeping your hands no higher than your waist – it will protect your face from any accidental contact, and also it will be better tugging form for him and easier on his neck. When the toy is that high, he is cranking his neck up and mouthing the toy but not really tugging. If you keep your hands down by your waist, he can tug more with a more natural head position, and use his hind end more.
T
Hi!
Really blind- decel – pivot work here!!! Super! The best decels where when you decelerated early and dramatically, like at :25 and on the last rep – that allowed him to really set up a tight collection! Yay! Your blinds were getting later and later as the session went on, so remember to start the blinds as soon as he turns to come back to you after he gets the cookie off the ground.You should also move the tire out of the way: pretty soon, he is going to learn to find the tire and other obstacles on his line, so we don’t want to teach him to ignore it here 🙂
Nice work!
TracyThis one had some tugging at the beginning (the rest off screen). I definitely want to go with the retrieve to your hands at waist level for him: when he comes up for the toy, his head is almost at the same level as your face, and I worry that he might accidentally head butt your nose! Ouch! So lower the game and it will be easier for you both 🙂
This was mostly off camera too, I think maybe it was the beginner retrieve? From the part I saw: Because he is so tall and wants to jump up for the toy, you can tweak this for him: have him retrieve with all 4 feet on the ground, putting the toy in your hands at waist-level. I think you can get that by backing up a little and encouraging it, rather than having him come all the way up on you.
T
