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Good morning! You are off to a fabulous start – both games look really strong 🙂
Pre-game 1 looks great! The pillow is a perfect choice of target! He did great with very clear, intentional fot touches. Great job building the value! He can go to the next step: no need for a clicker anymore, you can mark his foot touch with a ‘get it’ marker and toss the treat to the side (rather than hand it to him). That will build even more independence – and we add th efirst ‘official’ game to it tonight 🙂
Pre-game 2 also looks great! There was no sound on this video (youtube might be acting up!) but based on the strength of his touches, you had great timing of your marker! Yay!
You don’t need to get the target to the ground at all, you can hold it out to the side only a little lower than your hip 🙂 You can have your arm fully extended, elbow locked, so the target hand is far from you and he has to move away from the front of you to touch it (looking at the target and not at him will help that). You can deliver the cookie over by the target, or toss it away past the target so he can grab it then come back to the target (this builds up the independence towards the future application of this).Excellent work! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning, and welcome!
Charlie is adorable!!!!! He is so cute that it is hard to concentrate on the training, I had to watch more than once LOL!!!
The first thing I notice about him is that he is brilliant about placement of reinforcement. That means he notices where the cookies get delivered, so that is where he wants to go. SMART! That makes some things easier and we will pay careful attention to the placement.
Pre-Game 1: excellent job going from cookies to toys! Super!!! That is probably the most important thing at his age. And he was being really good about hitting his target!!!
He was very clever and adding in the down – maybe because you have already been training the down, or maybe because the down is closer to you and the cookies… or both 🙂 Your instinct to go to tossing the cookies was perfect. For the next session, you can toss all the cookie rewards: whenhe is aproaching the target, you can mark it with a ‘get it’ instead of a clicker, then toss the treat away to the other side of the target. He will then turn an dcome back to the target, so you can mark his approach and touch with another ‘get it’ and cookie toss. No need for a clicker 🙂 All the tossing means he is not going to off the down anymore.
You can also raise the target a bit so he has to step up onto it by maybe an inch, which will also help him not want to down. And, since he likes to be in the down next to you, you can try sitting in a chair or on the couch.
hand target session: He was great about going to the toy after the cookies here too! and was a brilliant baby with the targeting too. An his sweet rolling over was irresistible 🙂
Because he is so smart about cookie placement, we are going to change the placement to help him build value for the target and stay closer to it (notice how he would look at the target by lie down and stay closer to the hand delivering the food LOL!! So clever).So – have the cookie ready to go in the clicker hand (it is fine to not use a clicker here, since the cookie needs to go in that hand). And when he targets the target – bring the cookie hand over to the target and feed it to him from right on top of the target (the target hand stays out to the side). That way we will be using placement of reinforcement to build value for staying by the target hand and not going away from it to where the cookies are being delivered.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
Hooray for Casper videos!
>>but the “lack of three hands” made the nose target harder. I resorted to “YES!” which he has heard before as a marker.>>
The more I use a clicker… the less I use a clicker LOL!!! You are more than welcome to use a verbal marker and placement of reward rather than the clicker. The ultra precision of the click might be helpful for certain things, but these pre-games don’t require that level of precision.
>>. Also, the nose target video had various interruptions because my spouse had to check on his laundry and show me a funny thing and so on. >>
Ha! That’s hilarious 🙂 Good distraction training for the pup 🙂
Foot target – he did a great job targeting! And the hat is a perfect choice. This will become a commitment foundation game, and he wants to look at you (cleverly offering backing up to the target!) so we can tweak the timing and placement of reinforcement so he targets without looking at you as much. You don’t need to click for this game (I find that clickers tend to get the pups looking at us, even with the fastest reward placement). Instead, mark his foot his with a ‘get it’ word (mine is ‘get it’ :)) and toss the treat away to the side so he goes to get the treat, then turns and heads back to the target. No need for a yes or anything too exciting in terms of praise during the shaping moments so he can look at his target and not at you (the happy praise can happen before and after the ‘work’ moments). You can also time the marker and toss to be sooner: as he is arriving at the hat, as he is lifting his foot… that way he hopefully doesn’t look at you at all. And the ‘get it’ marker will help him know where to look (to the side, for the reward) and that replaces the ‘yes!’ which tends to get the pups looking at us.
Hand target – he was trying hard to find the right answer here! I think the target in your hand was not salient enough in comparison to the things around it (your legs/hands/cookies/other stuff in the room. You can build value for it more quickly by making it more salient, similar to what you did at 1:04 by holding it to the side. I would also add in looking at it to exploit the ‘dogs are nosy creatures’ factor haha.
So to make it more salient, you can either stand or sit in a chair (no clicker needed, I agree with taking the clicker out). Start with the target in hand, in front of you (with Casper facing you). Then hold your target hand way out to the side, away from you, straight arm with a locked elbow – and as you hold the target out, look at the target as well and not at his cute face. He is 99% guaranteed to go to the target when you do that – and when he touches it, your other hand can bring the cookie over to the target to reward. That is a great use for the ‘yes’ marker (hand delivering the cookie). When he begins to get even more value for the target, you can drop the ‘yes’ and move to the ‘get it’ and tossing the rewards, so he drives back to the target.
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
TracyHello and welcome! I am glad Casper can get back to all the fun puppy things!
The Resilience Rainbow domains all are pretty equal and work together. They are not meant to be progressive or more difficult from one end to the other. I will be posting games for each domain as we work through the class – the order is not all that significant as long as we hit all the domains.
Tracy
Keith, you can get a short chair or stool to sit on because SpongeBob is bigger than Ramen, so you don’t need to be as low. As Ramen grows, I will be able to get into chairs too. And the games all progress to standing up so you won’t need to be low very long 🙂
TracyHi!
The nose touch session here was strong too. You have great click timing! And she was great about touching it with her nose only and no feet 🙂 Super!
My only suggestion is to have the treat ready to deliver sooner – the fingers of the non-target hand can have it ready to deliver before you present the target. This will allow you to not have to move the target hand over to get the treat, and she will look at you less because the reward will be super quick.
This is likely to mean that you won’t have enough room in your hand to also hold the clicker, and that is fine 🙂 You can use a verbal marker at this point: you can use a soft “yes” then deliver the cookie to her near the target, or you can use a ‘get it’ marker and toss the cookie to the side. This also help us get to the next steps that are coming soon 🙂Great job!!!!
TracyGood morning! Great session here!!
The target is an excellent choice – big and easy to hit. The yoga mat under it was great too, both so she wouldn’t slip and so she could very easily see the target when it went in. Your click timing was spot on! And things went really fast (in a good way) when you had the treats in your hand to be able to get the reward to her asap. It was overall a really great value building session.
Was the back and forth cookie chasing to get her pumped up to play, kinda of a tug-replacer? She seemed to really like it and was very engaged. Yay!!!
So the next value-building session can get even more movement going (which will help the upcoming games :)): you can replace the click with your ‘get it’ marker and toss the cookie to the side (rather than hand it to her). So she touches, you say get it, and toss the cookie. She is ready for that!
Great job here!
TracyGood morning!
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Tracy
Good morning and welcome!!!!! I think you will find this structured but also with enough free-form stuff that you can have a fun and progress as quickly or slowly as you like.
Have fun!
TracyHello and welcome!!!!! Now Suzie gets to be your tech crew. 🙂
And Amore’s generation has sharpened up what we do here, so SpongeBob will get an even stronger foundation 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHi!
I think a separate post might be easiest for you to keep track of – we have lots of working pups and auditors so an auditing question post might get long 🙂T
Hello and welcome!!! I understand the foster failure thing and totally support it 🙂 And having 2 puppies at once? A bit crazy at first but TOTALLY worth it in the long run 🙂 I am glad you are here!!!!!! Have fun!
TracyPerfect! There is a time and a place for a clicker… but you’ll find that we don’t need it that often 🙂
TracyHi! Lots of lovely work here too!
Looking at the videos in groups:
Discriminations 1:
first video – doing the blind from a standstill was hard because you would basically have to finish the blind before the release. He figured it out based on motion Good boy!Video 2: After the BC, you can decel and do a spin rotation or a send – he was wide when you did just the post turn so those can help tighten up the turn after the blind. The flip away had excellent decel and he was SO TIGHT! Very nice!
Video 3: Sequence 1
There were 3 options 3-4 to get the line to the tunnel. You did the RC crosss here and it set a good line! You can get a little closer to 3 then drie with more RC pressure to the tunnel, to show the left turn exit before he went in. He turned correctly on the RC because the tunnel was turned that way, but your position can also support the left turn/RC.Nice push to the backside on 5!!! Try not to disconnect from him after the backside, that is an important connection spot so he was looking at you a bit more than we want there.
4: Sequence 1 2nd time:
ooh I like the position of your blind, great line! Remember to make more eye contact with him when you finish the blind. But the blind to the tunnel definitely is a great line with a ton of speed.Stay connected after 5 here too 🙂 The blind 5-6 worked to get 6 but made the line to 7 harder because you had to be further ahead to push him out so he looked at you there a bit.
5: Seq 1
This was a RC to the tunnel – it went well, but I definitely liked your blind better 🙂 The disconnection on 5 caused the dropped bar here because you were trying to get further ahead – but in this scenario, getting that far ahead made it a little harder to get the last jump and he needed more of a push out to it. I think the winning combo is the BC to the tunnel, then keeping him on your right 5-6-7.6: this was same as video 1, with just the blind to the turn.
Video 7: You did the FC to the tunnel here, but it was harder to finish on time so you were in the way and he had to hold up (and barked at you LOL!) The BC is definitely better in this context because you don’t have to rotate your feet to show a great line with the BC.
When he lands from 5, yo ucan decel and cue the left turn on 6 to the tunnel, so he can collect before takeoff and not turn on landing. That little bit of decel will help, he reads it really well.Next sequence:
Video 8: You can see he is turning wide after 3 on these reps, based on your position. On this video, freeze it at :05. You’ll see your FC is directly on the line to the tunnel, so he was guessing tunnel based on your line and motion then had to adjust for the FC so he turned when he landed. This was also the case on video 1 at :19. You can totally trust him more: send to 3 and do the FC closer to the 4 jump so he anticipates the turn based on your position and line of motion.9: to the tunnel, very nice 🙂 easy peasy!!!!
On the last video, to cue the turn on 4 to the tunnel: you can show decel and collection cues for 4 when he lands from 3, so he collects before takeoff. That will make it nice and tight, and also very fast 🙂
Great job here! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
