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TracyGood morning!
He did really well on the wraps here!! I like how he is approaching the bar and leaning int the turn, producing a slithery tight turn (slithery is good!)
Plus he is turning his head into the turn really nicely!
When he was on your left in the 2nd half of the video, you were leaving sooner with the FCs – you can keep leaving sooner and sooner, challenging him to get organized with all of the motion distraction (I think he will be fine with it) while you the ideal timing of the handling
Working the sit on the flat at the end worked well for him too. The fading process is going nicely and he is maintaining his organization!!!
>>Check out his reaction when the MM doesn’t beep for the 2nd or 3rd time
He is hilarous!! And so polite too, sitting to wait for the MM to get its act together LOL!!!
Great job on these! Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!!!
Tracy
Good morning!
Yes, the bar made it harder because he is used to going over the bar 🙂 You were smart to go back to the lotus ball in your hand, he had trouble ignoring it on the ground 🙂If he makes a mistake, you can still reward the effort – when he was wrong, he slowed down so we can maintain the speed by rewarding effort. You can reward effort here with a cookie from your hand as you bring him back to the reset spot. And then, you can help him out by using a hand signal (or even a cookie lure) to get the sit going when he is all pumped up 🙂
And when the lotus ball goes back onto the ground, you can plan to help hm out with a cookie n your hand and reward the sit, to add more value to the sit even when the delicious lotus ball is out there 🙂
>>When does posting end for this class?
We go until November 30th here 🙂
Great job! Have a great Thanksgiving!
TracyHi!
The 3 jumps at 400 was definitely harder! She made a great effort to not touch the bars – very good girl!!!! She was off balance on the first couple of reps, too much weight on her forehand – but then she was sorting it out nicely and used her hind end a lot better with more power on the last few reps. Yay!Since she did so well, you can leave the 3 jumps and flatten the angles a bit… but do those jumps have a setting for 350 instead of 400? I think a slightly lower bar will help as she approaches the harder angles, and you might be able to flatten the line of jumps out at 300 or 350!
Let me know how she does. Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
>>In this video, you can see both feet working together!
Yes! It is so cool to see this happening! Yay!
Very nice job showing her the wing and getting the sit. The whole session looked really good!
The next step here is to keep you moving the whole time… very slow moving LOL! So as she passes you to get to the organizer, you will oh-so-slowly walking forward past the wing, while also cueing the sit. At first, you might be moving so slowly it will feel like shuffling.
And when she sits… you can release her to take the bar and then drop the reward in the bowl. If you are on the takeoff side when you release her, you might need to help her take the abr by pointing to the landing spot or even moving the reward target to it.
Great job here! Let me know how she does with more motion!
Tracy
Wow, look at him go!!!! He looked super confident with the sequence work here – it was hard stuff but he seemed really grown up and professional about it all. SUPER!
And a click/treat to you – you got your connections where you needed to, plus all the verbals – and also made the verbals sound different in terms of tone, pitch, etc.This is all super exciting! What is next on his calendar in terms of seminars or trials?
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Good morning!
>>This was hard so we spent a lot of time working on the warmup exercises.
The under the DW games are hard indeed, it takes a few sessions for the baby dogs to get it. It is better to get the skills where you want them than to try the big sequences without the skills!
She did really well here!! You were really good about breaking it down and building in LOTS of rewards.
She did well finding the go jump – one detail is that you can tell her about the go before she enters the tunnel. When you are quiet and waiting to cue when she exits, she looks rather than drives the line. You can show her the acceleration for the go and start the verbal when she is still 6 feet from the entry of the tunnel, and keep repeating the verbal even if you stop your motion because of the invisible dog walk 🙂
Great job with your reward throws here and on the ‘out’ section too.
And on the out section: it was smart to reward when she went out but wasn’t perfect: by rewarding the general idea, you were able to shape her so that she put it togehter really well at the end!!! Yay! She was sorting out exactly what that ‘out’ line was all about, so running past the jumps and ending up on the other side of jumps was all rewardable because it was shaping her towards the finished product – the sequence at the end looked really good!!!
You can start the out cues before she enters the tunnel too – if she doesn’t hear anything before entering, she is likely to curl towards you after the exit. But if you start the verbal, hand cues, and a bit of converging pressure before she enters, she will be better preparing to move away from you on the exit,
The discrimination video looked great too! My only suggestion is to do the FC sooner from 3-4 : she was already jumping 3 when you started it, so she had to adjust after landing. When she lands from 2 and you see her look at 3, you can start the FC. Also, you might find a blind cross even easier in that scenario.
That decel at :24 to get her to turn from 6 to the tunnel, then the independent send to the tunnel entry? UTTER PERFECTION. She understood completely and was tight and fast. YAY!!!!
>>It’s starting to feel like agility.
She is growing up to be a fabulous agility dog and you two are a terrific team!!
Great job on these!!! Have a great Thanksgiving!
TracyThanks! I am biased too, I think he is perfect LOL! It is definitely interesting to watch the difference in a full baby whippet versus a quarter whippet (half Papillon). Also, the difference between boys and girls – my girl puppies are all very serious in their training, and my boys learn just as fast but definitely have more partying LOL!!
Good morning! Great job here with the connection and reward placement!
>>I sort of failed and misjudged the space on the video, so Cha Cha is out of the frame at the beginning.
No worries, I watch the handler on the blinds more than the pup LOL!!! If you get it right, she gets it right 🙂
>> The video doesn’t lie and I was a bit inconsistent with her marker cue for her tossed cookie. >>
The dogs are very forgiving when we mess us the markers, thankfully! And good for you for even adding the markers at this point!! Excellent!
For the next session, you can run more 🙂 Toss the cookie further and start moving the other way. As soon as she gets the cookie, you can take off and really run and do the blind at a run 🙂 If you are 100% sure that your running will not pull her off her cookie commitment, then you can start to run even sooner 🙂 But many baby BCs prefer the chase over the cookies 🙂
The other option is to get a holder (Teresa!) to replace the cookie tosses – that way you can be running the whole time and get even more distance 🙂 And ChaCha and Mingo can take turns too! Fun!
One other thing to consider in the session here – there are a lot of obstacles on her line. Even though she doesn’t know what they are yet, we don’t want to teach her to ignore them in favor of watching you all the time. So the easiest thing to do is to move the jump off to the side and turn down the tunnel entry so she doesn’t see that opening of it. That way she doesn’t learn to pass those things because eventually we will want her to commit to them as you move through blinds.
Great job here! Let me know how she does with more running!
TracyWow, how fun that you had a puppy training party!!!!
Annalise and Amy were great with the blinds of course – they can both run further and faster (especially Annalise because she is young LOL!!!) as long as they keep up this excellent timing and reward placement. You can tie a few toys together to make a longer toy for now, so they can still get the toy nice and low without bending over as much. Did Prytania have any questions? I don’t see any here.
By having different handlers and holders for this game, Miss Pry is getting a lot of exposure to being around new people and ignoring them in favor of playing and responding to cues. THIS IS AWESOME and the best type of socialization!!! Click/treat for all humans and pups involved.
Great job!
TracyWow, how fun that you had a puppy training party!!!!
Annalise and Amy were great with the blinds of course – they can both run further and faster (especially Annalise because she is young LOL!!!) as long as they keep up this excellent timing and reward placement. You can tie a ew toys together to make a longer toy for now, so they can still get the toy nice and low without bending over as much. Did Prytania have any questions? I don’t see any here.
By having different handlers and holders for this game, Miss Pry is getting a lot of exposure to being around new people and ignoring them in favor of playing and responding to cues. THIS IS AWESOME and the best type of socialization!!! Click/treat for all humans and pups involved.
Great job!
TracyGood morning! Youtube for the win!!
The driving ahead looks terrific – I love his tug drive here and that really helps create the drive ahead.He is not (yet) fully invested in bringing the toy back, but he actually did bring it back a few times on the first and second videos – that was GREAT! So having it in your hand was a good start and I think the next step is going to be putting the toys on a long line, maybe 10 feet or so (so you can control a little of his victory lap, but not all of it). That way, you trust him more to not go tooooo far with the toy and you can always grab the other end of the line if needed. But for now, let him grab it off the ground and just as he is arriving at it: you run the other way making a big happy fuss (he really liked that) AND whip out another really fun toy. That way it is reinforcing to drive ahead, and reinforcing to drive back to you. And i tis not a requirement that he bring the first toy back to you when you call him bacl – i fh edoes, great! If he drops the toy to drive back to you and the new toy? Also great! Either way he gets a big tug party as we fine to the retrieve.
The basement session was great too – perfect driving ahead with lots of “pressure” for you (being close and trying for the toy). Your connection here and in the outdoor videos looked good! And because the space was smaller, you were able to get the toy and engage very easily. Wonderful!
As a side note: I don’t mind a bit of victory lap action in toy play – it is all part of keeping the toy value high and many of the dogs with the BEST retrieves/toy play began by running off with the toy 🙂
Prop games with the toy: lovely too! And great job getting the toy back and rewarding that with more toy play. Love it!!!
On the send at :40 – look at him more and look at the hat less. The connection will help him “see” the hat more because it turns your shoulders slightly to the hat. When you look at the hat, your shoulders are turned to the toy (and he is already great at reading your shoulders)
Prop with food: starving farmdog! This is a great self-control game for foodie dogs – in order to get the food, he has to leave the food. I think he did really well here. It was hard but he did a great job leaving the food! He got distracted a bit by something in the middle of the session but then came back just fine.
You can add a bit of ready dance before the sending to add excitement (and also continue to build up leaving the cookies :))
And this might sound counterintuitive: If he is frantic in food training sessions, do the foodie sessions after he has eaten a meal. For example, give him maybe 2/3rds of a meal, then go train something with food. You might find that he is far more settled and thoughtful for food when his belly is full. It is the same idea as us humans going to the grocery store when we are hungry (BUY ALL THE THINGS haha!) versus eating a meal then going to the grocery store (we make much better decisions when we are not hungry :))Wing wrapping:
Great job rewarding that very first offer of the wrap as you were sitting down – most of us miss that first one, and then the dogs stop offering it because we didn’t reward them.
This session went well in terms of the upright wrapping but more importantly, it went well in terms of self-control on the toys 🙂 It is another version of “if you want it, you gotta leave it to get it”. He gave you some good sass but also he went and did his wraps 🙂
So with the wraps: if he is doing well with the food version of it, you can keep moving the upright further away, and also add sitting in a chair so that you can start working your way to standing up.But with the toys: keep the upright close and stay on the floor, to work the self-control element of it longer. When he doesn’t try to grab the toys and is easily able to leave the toy to wrap the upright, then you can totally add more distance between you and the upright too.
Great job on these! Let me know what you think!
TracyHi!
>> I have the long toy. Is this latest repetition looks like anything you want to see?
Oh yes, he DEFINITELY loved the long dragging toy! I think he was distracted by the larger handle at first, and that long handle made it harder for you to do the blinds – can the toy come off the handle and you hold the rope part of it? Or, tie several toys together so it is one long toy without a big handle 🙂
>>I am a little bit confused with reward placement.
I can do the Blind cross and I can see on Video that he is switching from one side to another behind me. But how to reward? I did from hand with food. Should I just continue to play with toy and forget the food reward?>>This is a good game for the toy only (no need for food since he did so well with the toy). Taking the handle off the toy will make it much easier for you – with the long handle, you were passing the toy behind you back which makes the blinds harder and probably feeling a little weird LOL!! Without the handle or with a super long toy, you can hold it all in your hand as you start to run (the toy starts in the hand on the same side that Charlie starts on – so if he is on your left, the toy is in your left hand). Then when you do the blind, keep the toy in your left hand and show it to him across your body (no need to change hands). And let the toy drag for him to chase a bit, I think he LOVED that a lot!
When he is bigger, you won’t need the super long toy because his head will be closer to your hands. But since he is so little, the long toy helps him find the blind AND gets great tugging 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
