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She did super well getting on the objects here! And nice transition between treats and toys, that all looked terrific!Keep changing up what you are asking her to get on – and use bigger objects too, so she can get all four feet on and not just front feet.
The next step as well is to toss the treats back and forth – when she gets on the object you can mark her as correct then toss the treat to the side so she gets off, grabs. The treat, then runs back on, That will help promote balance and back feet as well.
Great job!
TracyHi!
I agree – her blinds look great, tons of progress and yes: you need more room LOL! Can you take the game outside?
Great mechanics with the timing, the connection and rewarding across your body!
My only suggestion is to scrunch of the toy so it is more of an agility-style reward after she changes sides for the blind, and less of a flyball-style recall toy. Having the toy already dragging while you run away delays her response a bit because she is looking at the toy (correctly) then has to watch for it to move all the way across you.
Great job!
TracyHi!
The first session looked good with the treats – she was going back and forth so you can no delay the speed of the treats and let her off going back and forth more, so the treats become more of a reward and less of a motivator.
The toy game also went well – not only because of the wrapping, but also because of the dropping of the toy to go to the next one! That is an important skill for her because she loves her toys so much!>> These were done last week so a bit old and I think she has made more progress.โจโจIf she is now in the offering stage where she will go back and forth before you present the cookie or toy, you can move to sitting in a chair and then standing up. That will give her an even better foundation for the turn and burn game that we start on Wednesday.
Great job!!
TracyHi!
Focus forward is looking good! For the next steps, we are going to add even more of your motion – ty to start him your side rather than between your feet, so he can both drive forward and turn towards you when he gets the toy.On the reps at the beginning where he was better you feet, he turned left even when you were on the right turn side, probably because he is a lefty. On the last couple of reps where you started him on your side, he turned correctly to his right. Yay!
You can also start to move a little more, but donโt race him til you see him really start to run to the toy.The decel looked really good too! Nice job getting your cookie hand really low so his head was low as he turned. Nice timing on the pivots! The game we added this week (the decel sandwich) builds on this and I think he is ready ๐
I loved his little wagging tail on the wing wrap foundations! So cute! He did well here too! So since this went well, two adjustments for the next session:
– move the 2 plates further back, past your knees, so he has more room to go back and forth.
– when he can go back and forth between the plates with them further back, you can bring in an upright for him to go around too.On the prop game – he did really well with the foot targeting here! So before you add more distance away from it, start to toss the treats more – when you click, you can toss the treat off to the side instead of hand it to him at the prop. That will get him running to grab the treat, then running back to smack the prop.
If that goes well in the next session, you can then move to the first prop game (sending).Great job!!! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
I loved your super quick response when she got to the toy by running the other way and rewarding with a great reward – I am sure you will have a great retrieve very soon!
The other handlers were not as quick to do that, so Annalise and Amy can do what you did: turn and run away and trade for a cookie.
I thought it was a great way to make the retrieve SUPER fun! And you offered great advice about getting the toy back by trading for a treat – that makes is so much nicer for everyone ๐The backing up is going well! After the first reward for backing up, you donโt need to keep tossing treats because I donโt think he is choosing to back up at that point, I think she is just eating LOL! I mean, she is not sad about it ๐ but you will get more backing up by calling her into your feet for the next cookie drop, and then delaying the reward for backing up by a step or two. Take a ping pong approach to building more distance: You can sometimes reward for 1 step, then 3 steps, the n2 steps, then wait for 4 the n1 then 2โฆ. which will add the distance more gradually ๐ And you can also work this getting her to back on onto a dog bed – we added more about that the week.
Great job!!!
Tracy
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I am glad she is feeling good and back in action!!!! She looked happy to be working here!She was bouncing the line really well when you had the angles pretty open and she added strides as soon as you started to flatten the angles out. So to help her keep bouncing, 2 ideas:
– start her really close to the wing and bar so she has to liftoff from the sit
– overlap the wings even more to shorten the distance, or if they were already fully overlapped, you can use a wingless upright and have both weave poles sitting on it (maybe one In the 4 inch cup and the other in the 6 inch cup). We want to find the sweet spot distance where she will still bounce as the angles get flatter.Great job here!!โจTracy
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>>For the taller item will an oval-shaped tall laundry basket work or does it have to be perfectly round? I can buy a soft barrel from the hardware store if it needs to be completely round.>>
Oval is great! And if you find yourself in a Walmart or dollar store, you can grab a pop up barrel – but definitely don’t spend more than a dollar or two on it ๐
>>She cracks me up with the back-up too. I will try standing up and try the between-the-feet approach next.>>
You might want to also try some flyball with her: I know she is going to be an amazing agility dog, but her spunk and sass and willingness to do flyball turns off of your stomach made me thing she would be great at Flyball too ๐
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Hooray for the goat games! Sounds like there was a puppy party going on during the first part!
I think you have truly embraced the full meaning of goat games: I have never seen so many different objects in one video LOL!!! It all looked really good!
You had a really nice variation of surface textures, location, and movement of surfaces. She seemed SUPER confident on all of it. The only thing I noticed was that the narrow plank was too narrow, perhaps, she couldnโt quite get all of her feet on it. But everything else was really great.
You can make a puppy obstacle course for her, by putting all of the various objects together in a row so they are touching, and having her walk across it one after the other like a giant bridge so she is experiencing all of the different surfaces and movement one after the other, and one foot might be touching one thing with another foot is touching the next thing. That can be a great next-step for what you ave already started here.
Great job here!! See you in class tonight!
TracyHi!
His goat games with the bowl are looking good!!! It is a little hard for him to get both front and back feet in because the space is small ๐ He is trying and does get all the feet where the need to be LOL! Yay! What do you have that is bigger – as he grows, you’ll want to use different objects partially so he has more room to get all his feets in, and partially to help him get on or in all sorts of different things. So for the next session, try something really big ๐ One of your classmates was using a couch cushion yesterday and it worked great – big enough for the pup to get all four feet on, and also a little wobbly ๐ So maybe grab one of the cushions that his brother was sitting on?Great job ๐
TracyHe did really well tugging here! You can start to add a little if him weight shifting during tugging: when he has his mouth on the toy, you can move your toy hand a little less, and gently tap him with the other hand: that often gets the pups to pull even harder and gets more tugging and weight shift ๐
Great job!
TracyHi!
Really nice session here – he was offering beautifully and both directions looked pretty equal. You were great about mixing the bowls back, and being quiet while he worked but then being loud and silly during the tug break ๐ Yay!!!!So on the next session: keep everything the same with you standing, and start to move the wing a little further away, bit by bit. We don’t need a lot of distance, but he is ready for us to add some distance.
And if that goes well? Then on the session after that, you can start the turn and burn game we added last night. Fun times ahead!!!!
Tracy
Hi! She did really well with the wrap game!!!
On the food version of it:
She definitely had the back and forth rhythm!! As you add distance, you can move the targets back with you as you get further from the wing – they can stay near your knees when you are kneeling or at your feet when you are standing. And you can now start working up to standing: try moving from kneeling to a chair, then from the chair to standing. She might be fine with it all in one session, or need a session or two to sort that out.
Good job seeing her question when you moved further away and helping her by getting closer! Do you have a big cone or laundry basket? I think you can move to that now, because it is a little more obvious-looking to her than the skinny upright ๐
She really liked the 2 toy version of it!!! The next step is to see if she will offer wrapping the upright before the next toy comes โaliveโ:
Start just as you did her to get her in the groove of the back and forth then when she has done that a couple of times, add this:
Tug tug tug then let that tug go silent, so she drops itโฆ but donโt tap the next toy til she looks the new direction or takes a step the next direction. When that happens, you can go wild with the next toy. You can gradually stretch the time before tapping the 2nd toy so she wraps it on her own ๐Great job!
TracyHi!
>>Also, I was listening to a podcast and they had an episode on the Resilience Rainbow & you got several shout outs
๏ฟผOh! I will have to totally listen! Thanks!
Looking at the wing wrap video:
>>I may have lumped a little, but she didnโt get confused so I kept going.
You call it lumping, Bazinga called it fast tracking! LOL! Things can move very quickly like this when the dog understands the predictability of reinforcement ๐
You can probably move even more quickly from sitting to standing, she had no problem with that. Do you have something taller for her to go around (like a pop up laundry basket) so you can start the turn and burn games? She seems ready!!!
She was cracking me up during he backing up LOL!!!! I particularly liked the reps where she launched herself off you to start the backing up LOL!!! I think she understands that it is something with ,moving backwards away from you – but she is working it all off her front end and not using her back feet separately. So you can try shaping it with the between-the-feet approach and see how she does. Plus we can add in shaping her to back up onto a target like a dog bed.
Great job!!!
TracyYes, that’s correct! The prop is a foot target that we use to teach commitment concepts… that eventually transfer to wings and jumps ๐
Have fun!
TracyGood morning! He did well on both of these!
On the slices:
Try to keep moving the whole time, and have the reward placed out on the line – the movement will have to be very slow, which is fine, we just donโt want him to rely on your decel or stopping to get organized.The same theme can apply to the wraps (staying in motion) but in a slightly different way: you can decel, rotate, do the FCโฆ all while he is moving into the sit on the plank ๐ That will be a good mental challenge!!! And you can release the sit at any point in your rotation.
>>Leave them there and try a backside wrap and/or threadle?
Yes, leave them low to add the wrap challenges on the backside ๐
He did well on the zigzags even in a smaller space – he didnโt need to add strides, he was confident to power bounce even though he didnโt have a ton of room to stride out after it. Super!!!
>>Dead toy is still not a draw.
Yes, the fling definitely worked better! Do you think the PT would be enough of a draw?
You can start to flatten the angles on the backside slices too! Fingers crossed for a short winter ๐
Great job here!
Tracy
