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>>I didn’t see these things and appreciate your “eye.”>>
It is very easy to see as an outsider eye looking at video… it is MUCH harder to see in the moment or when we work with our own puppies 🙂 Plus, play preferences change as the pups grow, so she might play entirely differently in 6 months!
Looking at the baby goat games video: she did really well offering to get on the ‘thing’ and more importantly: nice job getting back to the toy after cookies! The pace of your session was great: tug, shape for a couple of cookies, then back to tug while getting the object out of there – very nice!
Only one suggestion: you were putting the object down and then getting the cookies from the pocket… which ended up causing your hand to stay in your pocket. She was watching you pocket, even offering behavior directed towards the pocket, which inhibits that first offer moment (because “mom’s hands are going to the magic cookie pockets! nom nom!!” )
So you can switch that: tug tug tug, get the cookies into your hand… then put the object down. Sure, she might look at your hand a little but that is a smaller visual than the hand-in-pocket, and can lead to a faster offer on the object and definitely will lead to quicker reinforcement placement – which means she will be less likely to watch your pockets 🙂 because you can get the reward in before she turns and looks at you.
Wing wrap games:
>>I wound up using toys because when I initially used bowls and treats, it looked too much like the “Bucket Game” we play to do her grooming. So, she would just down and stare at the bowl and wait for me to comb her.>
Ah yes, I can see her point there LOL! So we can call this the 2-Dragon Game instead LOL!! The grooming bowl game is a lifetime thing, so I would not want to change that because we fade the bowls from the wrap game pretty quickly. The other option is to use post it notes or something that definitely does not look like a cookie bowl 🙂
She did well here with the 2 dragons! (I just noticed she has spots in a row down her back: SO CUTE!!!!) The first video was all about establishing the back-and-forth pattern and getting her to drop one toy then go to the other one. On the 2nd video, she was dropping the toy more easily and the upright placed there was no problem at all. So, next steps: rather than tap the other toy immediately when she lets go of the first one… wait for a heartbeat. when she turns her head to the next toy, the other toy can come alive! Then you can start delaying the 2nd toy tapping longer and longer, so she builds up to offering going around the upright.
Great job!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi! Thank you for the info!!!! She sounds really cool and fun in many ways, and challenging in others.
One overall observation: based on what you said about her, she sounds like she doesn’t really know how to self-regulate at all. She gets “up” into arousal… and stays up there and can’t get herself back to baseline or that optimized state. It makes sense: she is from high arousal working lines (genetics might not have been geared towards self-regulation) and she is an adolescent.
So, prioritizing the training should make a MASSIVE difference!!
Step 1 – self-regulation in the form on the resilience games. Get those going for sure as the top priority. I have more coming this week! And I have found that nosework is GREAT for self-regulation1
Step 2 – very simple basic shaping where you take an easy, unimportant skill and shape it with toy play before, cookies during, toy play after a few cookies, then a treat scatter in the grass to end the session with her sniffing to decompress her arousal state. What should you shape? It doesn’t matter as long as it is relatively easy and NOT something you really care about for sports 🙂 because the goal is not about the shaped behavior, the goal is ALL about the self-regulation when ‘working’.
>> I am not playing 2 toy game with her at the moment as she is just too aroused and won’t end the game.>>
You can create a resilience/self-regulation variation of toy-one-tug then treat scatter in the grass then toy-two-tug then treat scatter in the grass. And you will be able to replace the treat scatter with a little nosework skill – all of that can help her practice the up and down of self-regulation. It is like building up a muscle!
When you have that magical self-regulation and resilience in place? BOOM! Everything else will come together very quickly 🙂
>>When out and about we use a 4-in-1 harness, usually chest attachment, though she is still a powerful pull. I do use a GL as well.>>
I have found that using 2 leashes like reins really helps: so you can have 2 leashes on the chest attachment harness, one in each hand and on each side of her body, so you have a little more control to help her out.
>>I am having trouble finding good footing places to train, and urgently need yo solve that problem. Kilah digs and drives at top speed and has no regard for her physical safety.>>
She should probably not be doing any of that type of training yet, til the resilience and self-regulation muscles are built up because the bad footing can be incredibly frustrating to dogs like her! Plus, if she can’t yet self-regulate then yes – it can be unsafe. I would replace the running activities she might be getting there with hikes on a long line, or long sniffaris (sniffy walks) an stuff like that.
Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>So I didn’t really ease into the wobble board, because Georgie climbs on all sorts of stuff, some that moves, some that crashes, some that falls, and then she bounces right back. On Sunday she climbed the patio chairs and stood on the table. Very goat like.>>
OMG, she is a complete goat LOL!! As she enters adolescence, keep making these super fun like you did here because adolescent dogs can sometimes be more sensitive to things like movement or noise.
This was a really strong session! The first toy was not interesting and I thought maybe she was having a “But mom this is where we EAT!” moment – but actually, it was more about toy value! I thought your original toy choice was good but she disagreed. You did the right thing to switch to the better toy! Yay!
I think you can make that toy longer by tying it to the other toy, so she keep her head lower, shift her weight more, and NOT accidentally grab your hand (and so you don’t need to bend over a much either). And the excitement of the toy helped her get all four 4 on the small wobble board! Super!!!
So as she continues to grow, you can take all of your ‘stuff’ (wobble board, pods, disc, etc) and put them all down on the floor together so she is walking around on them at the same time. That way she can walk over things that move, things that squish, things that make noise… and she can play and/or get cookies for all of the different experiences. She seems ready for that!
Great job!
TracyHi there! Lots of good stuff here!!!!
Backing up is going well! My only suggestion is to lower your cue hands so his head is just a little bit lower: maybe do it just in front of your stomach instead of up by your shoulders. That way his head would be more in a ‘neutral’ position looking straight, and looking up less.
So the next step here is to have him back up to something that moves a little, like a big disc or a wobble board (but use one with lots of towels stuff under it so he doesn’t have to deal with a lot of motion).
Parallel path – looks good! He definitely has value and was driving to the prop. So now, next steps:
– you can switch from a clicker to a ‘get it’ marker, so he doesn’t look back at you at all: use the same timing you had here (say get it as soon as his first foot touches it) but instead, say “get it” and toss the treat out ahead (same tosses you were doing here. Clickers tend to get the dogs looking at us, but the get it marker can help him look ahead the whole time, like we want on course.– add more lateral distance away, so your parallel path is further away from the prop. At the end here, you were maybe 12″ to 18″ away, so start at 18″ away and build up to a couple of feet away on your parallel line 🙂
Countermotion – This was harder for him! He has really strong value but had questions about the distance with the backwards sending to start this. You can start closer so he is more comfy moving away, which also allows you to start moving in the opposite direction. So start about a foot away from the prop, send to it (which should be easy for him) and as he starts to move, you start to walk in the other direction. And you can reward the effort of the ‘almost’ moments – he doesn’t have to be perfect, we are looking for him to commit to moving away.
He had questions when you were near the prop and stepped towards it but didn’t use your hand – he was not sure if he had the cue to go to it or not. So definitely use your hand here (no need for a clicker on this one anymore either, which frees up a hand for pointing to the prop). As you step to the prop, you can point at it and look at it, all of which support him moving to it.
Rear crosses: These are pretty hard and he did well! It is possible that when you only had the prop, your timing was not clear. On this clip, it was a little hard to see your path but it looked like you were timely with the RC info on all the reps except two reps: meaning, you cut in behind him early enough that he was able to make the turn in the correct direction. Yay!
So when he was spinning: was it happening before the prop, or after he got to the prop (turning the wrong way)? If it was before the prop, it is possible that the uprights were helping him with a good visual reminder to go forward. If it was after the prop, it is possible that you were late on the cue and you were not late here.
Looking at his two questions, you had one rep where you were too early and one rep where you were too late 🙂
:32 – you were too early and you ended up pushing him off the line and getting the backside. Good dog! So you can totally reward anyway because his response to the handling cue was correct.At 1:30, this was the only rep where you were too late – he had already committed to turning to his left and was at the prop and *then* you started cutting in, so he couldn’t make the change. Good boy, keeping you honest LOL! Compare to the next rep at 1:41, where you were earlier (showing the RC info before he got to the prop) and he nailed it 🙂 yay!
I also give YOU a massive click/treat to be able to do a full 2 minute session on rear crosses and only be late on one rep. That is amazing, because rear cross timing is hard! Super!!!
One more thing about the rear crosses: don’t use a go verbal 🙂 Go means straight and RCs are turns. So for now, you can say ‘hit it’ or something if you like, and we will be adding the directionals soon, I promise! the pups are just about ready for the directional verbals in many cases.
Collection sandwich: looking good on both videos!! He is reading the collection cues perfectly and that allowed you not have to worry as much about which hand to use 🙂 As long as you slowed down and stayed connected: perfect! And he was happy to drive forward to get the cookie for th eget it (go) ending on the 2nd video.
Next step: more of your running! You will probably need a bigger space for that, so outdoors will work if you don’t have too much snow!
Also, you can use a toy in the indoor space because that will get him moving faster so you can add more excitement and challenge, even in a smaller space. Start some tugging, then toss the cookie like you did here: then decel with the toy in your hand and after he does the pivot with you, throw the toy forward for a toy race ending 🙂
Retrieving looked good! He was a little surprised when the toy hit the bag on the wall – so in that moment, wait for him to assess the situation and then ask him to bring it. You can also do 2-toy retrieving or bring out your entire toy bag and throw a different toy each time LOL! He is doing a super job with the retrieving.
Wing wrap with the big barrel: He has fabulous commitment and I think he really liked this game! Yay!!!! A couple of ideas for you for the next session:
Try to start in the same place every time, with a moment between the line up and send, so he knows when to start and you know when to FC and run the other way. So you can start right in front of the barrel, same spot each time – and move the line you are looking for him to arrive at closer and closer to you, so you are leaving earlier and earlier.
By changing starting spots each time, it was harder to move the line and progressively leave sooner and sooner. By always starting in the same spot, you will easily be able to move the line so you can start the countermotion of leaving sooner
And if something goes wrong with the handling, reward his effort like at :25 where you sent to a spot where there was no barrel and called him back. He was being super, so you can tug and then set up in front of the barrel for the next send.
For this game – try not to say “go” here 🙂 because Go means straight and these are wraps. We will be adding wrap verbals to this: do you have wrap verbals with your other agility dog(s)? Sid seems ready so we can go ahead and get those started 🙂
Resilience game: He did well here! I was interesting to watch him look around a bit with this game, exploring the room a bit. Super! And yes, you want to be quiet but I thought you were pretty quiet 🙂 The only suggestion I have is to replace the “yes” marker with a “get it” which tells him you are tossing a cookie. We will be building this up soon!!
Great job on all of these – he is ready for the new games coming tomorrow! Let me kno what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>>Yeah, I wasn’t happy with using “Go” but I don’t love being without a command in these kind of circumstances.
> I can totally relate! Now that he is into the turn and burn stage, you can add your wrap verbals (front side wrap) if you want to. Based on his success with turn and burn, adding the verbal cue is appropriate!
Speaking of turn and burn… looking awesome! And doing only one side is fine because it allows the concept to cement in his brain before we go back to the 2nd side.
I am sending you a massive click/treat for your patience in standing still for the first few reps! Then you started to move sooner and sooner, which was great and he seemed to have no questions.
My only suggestion for this session is to keep your feet together after you send him, rather than step the opposite leg out to the side. For the first reps and the very last rep, you started him on your right and your left leg stepped out to the side, making it visible on the other side of the barrel.
We don’t want to inadvertently build in the sideways step with the outside leg as a cue, plus we want you to be able to move the new direction as early as possible – and that extra step can delay things.
You didn’t do the extra step on the reps after 1:15 and he was awesome!!! You did it on the last rep and that is when he had a question and pushed the barrel.
For next turn and burn: if you do more left turns, definitely start to leave earlier and earlier: how early can you turn and go the other direction while he still commits?
And start the right turns, but start from the very beginning where you stand still longer.The backing up is hilarious!!!! It is like he is using little eyeballs in his feet to find the destination LOL!! Because he is a teenager, you can keep him closer to the destination object for now, so he doesn’t try to walk on his shoulders while using the foot eyes lol!!!
Form is more important than distance, so you can work form by changing the destination object without adding more than a few steps of distance.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
She is such a smart girl!Here is my guess on what happened in the session: I think she was understanding the ‘put your feet on the pods’ thing… but the pods are kind of harsh feeling on the feet. Note the moment when she was standing up and had one foot on the pod – she shifted her weight to that foot and then lifted the other foot to put on the other pod. That was when she was like, ‘hey wait a minute, this feels really weird’ so she moved to a sit: the sit takes her weight off her feet so she could touch the pods without having the weird ouchy feeling on her feet. If you have ever stepped on one of those pods, you will know that is might not be a comfy feeling LOL!!
Then she was ultra clever and started pushing them. She is so smart!!! Love it!
So, let’s help her out and give her more options with the texture, so she is not having any ouchy foot feelings: you can take your disc, and put the paw pods and the disc together, so there is a bigger playing field. That way she can practice putting both feet on different objects, without trying to avoid any possible ouchy feeling. You an also use a disc and a pillow, for example, to help her get all sorts of different options for the goat games.
Nice work here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>I am a little unsure about my next steps. I did 2 more zig zag sessions with Wink and she did FANTASTIC. She looked so much more confident on the first rep. I will get a video tomorrow and send.>>
Yay! Total latent learning!
>>I am not sure what you mean by the comment below. Is this referencing the Zig Zags? What do you mean by playing around with the backsides?
I am glad she likes the new toy and is doing so well! You can start to play around with the backsides (lower the bars, though, and place the toy out past the landing spot rather than run with it, because she is going to leave you in the dust :))>>
Yes, it references the next step on the zig zags, which would be the backside zig zags:
You can also do the 3 jump zig zags but I think the backsides with 2 jumps will be better for the next step.
>>>>Keep bar at 12 and slight increase distance of jumps? Right now at 6’6″. Start with toy stationary and then move to moving. To help her out lower first bar to 8″.>>
I would leave the distance where it is now, that is her sweet spot 🙂 So 2nd the bar on the front side zig zags that you did here can stay at 12 and the first bar can go down to 8, to warm her up. When you move to the backside zig zags, you can start at 8 to teach her the concept then after a cople of sessions, move the bars up to 10 then 12.
>>Also, I am not sure what you were referencing when talking about the head turns? You reference a bar so I don’t think I used a bar on the click for head turn around the stanchion. Are we talking about two different things or are you referencing the Zig Zag exercise?
The head turn was interesting – she is pushing herself out on those turns to shape the turn by moving further from the wing rather than right towards it. If a bar was there, she would be on trhe far side of the bar! I scrolled back to look at what she was doing in earlier sessions, and she was a little closer coming in to the wing on the left turns and a LOT closer coming in on the right turns So she might need a little chiro adjustment or trigger point massage? In terms of training, you can start her closer to the wing just to re-visit that first step of getting close to the wing, but I would wait to make sure she was not out or sore anywhere – she might be changing her position to compensate.>>It was on this training video:
Where she was no running directly towards the wing, but instead she was pushing out really far away from it. So the bar reference was about it was a full jump with a 4 or 5 foot bar and you were asking her to wrap a wing, she would not be close to the wrap wing but instead she would be setting herself up on the far side of the jump bar (if there was a jump bar there :))
Let me know if that makes sense!
TracyHi!
Ah yes, this first video totally answers my question about whether he will tug outside or not… he was fabulous! His commitment looked really great and you can definitely move away sooner.
I think you can also go to a taller barrel or laundry basket, to simulate how we will be transferring to a wing pretty soon 🙂
>>. I can see some tug mechanics I can improve on, like not trying to walk and move him into position while he’s tugging that encourages him to let go.>>
Yes – you can keep it lower. When you keep it lower, he will move with you (while tugging) back to a starting position. He offered a lot of downs – is that something he does a lot? I was trying to figure out why he was doing it LOL! Maybe it is highly rewarded? Maybe he was tired? Maybe he wanted to go go go rather than reset? Let me know what you think. I am tempted to add in a SUPER BORING cookie for the reset for the next rep, and then the fast fun moving toy for the reward.
>> On the last rep – Oh yeah! I’m supposed to reward across the body LOL.>>
Ha! No worries! You were very connected so it all worked really well.
The blinds looked SUPER strong, he easily found the new side and you were connected really well. Nice rewarding too! Also, gold star for a strong stay 🙂 Yay! You can bring the blinds to the connection sandwich now that we did in the live class – try it outdoors with more room to run run run 🙂
Rear crosses are hard indeed, because the timing has to be so early. You were late 🙂 and that is why he turned the wrong way 🙂 Ideally, you would be fully crossed behind him when he is still at least one maybe 2 strides from the prop.
So how do we get that to happen? Start much further back 🙂 Start at least 15 feet away from the prop, and you should be next to him to start. Do a bit of the back and forth that you started with here, but at that big distance. Then when he is happy with that, you can start moving forward – when he is about halfway to the prop, you can cut in behind him and continue moving to the prop on the other side, which should give him plenty of time to make the adjustment.
You did a fabulous job rewarding him, but the cutting in behind him for the RC was happening after he was arriving at the prop, so he was not able to make the adjustment.
>>He is VERY handler focused and is looking at me rather than driving ahead.>
Actually…. I am happy with his focus forward on the prop! He was looking at the prop on almost all of the reps, only looking at you after he got there an you praised. There were only one or two times where he looked at you and asked a question before the prop, but that was hen you were starting too close to the prop and putting too much pressure on hi sline, so he was not sure if he should go forward to it or not.
>>Also you said on the LIVE that we should be thinking about verbals. I never really trained much in the way of verbals for Gabby (just ran with her all the time) and with Eli and Rudy that wasn’t a thing. Can you give me some suggestions on what cues I should be using for some of these moves?>>
Nowadays, there are a TON of verbals! But in order to prevent the handlers from stressing LOL we prioritize them. You are already working the go go go in toy races. So now we can start devleoping wrap verbals. It is your decision about which style you want, because you will need two wrap cues:
wrap-to-me and wrap-away-from-me
or
wrap-to-the-left and wrap-to-the-right.I use noises for them, some people use short sharp words like chechecheck and digdigdig. We will be talkin more about these in coming weeks so you don’t need to decide right now 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi1
The zig zags looked really good! She was powerful and confident! My only suggestion is to have her closer to the start wing and a few inches further from the bar – she was ticking bar 1 on takeoff a few times, and I think it was just because she was too close.
You can raise the bars a little more on this one!She did well on the organizers but with the added speed and room and different footing… the blue square is a little too small and also might be a little harder to see against the blue floor.
I think she might have also had some questions about the release: after the sit and you released her, you were praising her a lot and moving away, so it is possible she thought you were going to reward her? So no praise til she finishes the jump 🙂 and be sure to handle the turn to help her commit.
>> I’m pretty sure it’s because I disconnected before she took jump 2, so she thought we were gonna race? I was trying hard to be on time & smooth, but I don’t think I managed it. >>
Bummer about the bar on the run!
On time? Yes!
Smooth? Heck yeah!So I think the issue was your position: as you lead out, released, and started the turn, everything about your motion forward and position told her to go to the purple jump behind you. So then when she took off a :10 even though you were fully finished ith the FC, she didn’t see the motion towards 3 til she was in the air. So she tried to adjust, but ended up pulling the bar.
To help her out, you can be moving towards 3 the whole time – so when she lands from 1, she sees you heading to 3 and adjuts before takeoff for 2. You can lead out to 3 and do a FC (old school lead out pivot), or you can lead out on the landing side of 2 near the jump and do a lead out push with your fet and shoulders facing 3, or run into a blind near 3. That should get a great turn – trust her to take 2 so you can positionally be near 3 🙂Great job on the rest of it, it looked awesome!!!
TracyHi!
Yes, now that Changste saw more action in this game, she had a harder time getting into the sit. So for now, you can keep the higher energy level and more speed… but reward her for sitting on the plank in position (rather than release and reward). Do a session or two or that, with a few days in between to allow latent learning to kick in. Then if she is getting the idea, you can make the reinforcement more variable: sometimes reward her in position for the sit, sometimes release and reward after she wraps the jump.Great job!!
TracyHi!
She did really well here! Nice!!!! Yes, my only suggestion is to place the toy so yo ucan keep moving and so you don’t have to stand still to throw. If the toy is too challenging, maybe try the Manners Minder? You will want to keep the angles between the jumps pretty open til you figure out what to use as the placed reward, then you can easily tight them up 🙂
Nice work! Let me know what you think! And I bet Changtse will LOVE nosework, and it will be a great balance for agility!
Tracy
This is so awesome to see! He was such a good boy! The leash was definitely a little less predictable in terms of where it was… but he was still searching for it more and offering those arousal errors less. YES!!! Very cool! And you certainly had excellent leash placement from the leash runners LOL! I have a few more ideas percolating for you now that the in-person brain camp is over, so stay tuned!
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Hi!
Thanks for your patience!Looking at the zig zags… I think what we see in these 2 sessions is latent learning in action. The first session from 11/29 definitely shows her having questions when she is jumping left to right (you are on her right shoulder, s you noted). But the 12/1 sessions shows that pretty much cleared up and looking much much better! And on the “easy” side, on the 11/29 session she definitely had to work at it… but on 12/1 it seemed much more effortless! Yay!
So only a couple of suggestions –
She probably needs a couple of warm up reps with bar 1 lower than bar 2, to get organized, then you can go to bar 1 being the same height.And, trust the latent learning process: if the rep is not great… reward it anyway. The science supports that a whole lot 🙂 because it turns out that what we see during the session doesn’t really matter all that much, because the dog’s brain wires it in duing the sleep after the session. So we want it to be a feel-good session even if the mechanics are not perfect! And the voila! Great mechanics percolate 🙂
I am glad she likes the new toy and is doing so well! You can start to play around with the backsides (lower the bars, though, and place the toy out past the landing spot rather than run with it, because she is going to leave you in the dust :))
The head turn was interesting – she is pushing herself out on those turns to shape the turn by moving further from the wing rather than right towards it. If a bar was there, she would be on trhe far side of the bar! I scrolled back to look at what she was doing in earlier sessions, and she was a little closer coming in to the wing on the left turns and a LOT closer coming in on the right turns So she might need a little chiro adjustment or trigger point massage? In terms of training, you can start her closer to the wing just to re-visit that first step of getting close to the wing, but I would wait to make sure she was not out or sore anywhere – she might be changing her position to compensate.
I think we might be seeing a bit of that compensating on the organized sits sessions – not on the plank, she looked great on those! It was more on the wing wrap before it – she was not bending through the ribs or neck as much as she had in the past. So if she has an appointment coming up with a chiro or PT, let me know if they feel anything a little sore or out.
But for the planks – she looked good! You can add a reward target on the exit of the wrap so she can keep her head down more and look at you less 🙂 It can be a manners minder, it can be a food bowl that you plop food into, or a toy. The reward target will help things be less ‘meh’ haha! We kinda needed the meh at first to get the mechanics, now we can make it more exciting 🙂
Nice work! Let me know what you think! I am going to post about a class continuation option in a few minutes.
Tracy
Good morning! Hope you had a great weekend!!
The wing wrapping at the beginning looked great: he was quickly able to go from the flat laundry basket to the popped up basket to the longer distance. He appears to be a righty because he could process the right turns as a distance more easily than the left turns at a distance. So, as we add more challenge and excitement to the wrap games, try to always start with the right turns to get the concept tarted. And you will probably see him progress more quickly through the steps on the right turns while the left turns and lag a step or two. It all balances out, so it is fine if one side proceeds more quickly than the other.
Only one suggestion: try not to say Go because Go will mean something entirely different very soon 🙂 So what to say instead? You can just use ready ready and let him offer.
And, you can also now go to the turn and burn game, where you can step to the barrel and point to it to indicate the game starts without needing to say go. We will put wrap verbals on this skill soon.
His retrieve is showing big improvements! He was able to be joyous and playful with the toy and still bring it back relatively quickly for the other toy reward. Yay! That is what we want: to keep shaping the retrieve without losing that joyous bounce in his step when he is playing. More sessions like this in this relaxed style will result in a really great retrieve.
His backing up is also looking good. Towards the end, you had your hands a little lower so he could keep his head in that neutral position (not too high, not too low) and he was able to really nicely step backwards! He had a little trouble when the treat got too far behind you so putting the cot on its side to help narrow the playing field was helpful.
So he can move to the next step on this too: keeping your hands on the position (top of your thighs) you had them at the end, and using the cot behind you for when he comes forward, y can start backing up onto a
‘Thing’ like a flat bed. Start with all 4 feet, lure the front feet off then reward him for stepping his front feet back onto it, so he gets the idea of the destination. Then you can move to luring all four feet off to start having him step back onto it with his back feet.Great job here!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>>I was so happy with her willingness to work this out and wait for the cookie.
Yes, she was great! She did well getting all four feet on the plank, in the new location outdoors. Super!!
One suggestion: while he is working it out, you need to stand still 🙂 No helping! LOL!! When you start to move about, even a little, she starts to ask questions: should I look at da momma? Or at the plank? So be perfectly stationary til she offers something, then reward. If she gets stuck, you can toss a cookie off to the side to reset her to try again.
This will help her focus on her task and also not wait for you to cue anything with movement.Great job on all of these!! She is doing so well!!!!
Tracy
