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Hellllooooo to you and LaLa! I am excited to see her! I think we have a lot of her family here and some other awesome baby Goldens too – it will be FUN!!!!
Tracy
Hello and welcome! He is adorable!
Stays are not required LOL! We will train them here at some point 🙂 I am excited to see baby Casper!
It will be a Farmdog party here, so fun!!
TracyWelcome!!! I am excited to see Pocket! I see his ‘first momma’ all the time and his littermate. One of the demo dogs here is “related” in that he is a Quicksilver dog too LOL!!
Have fun!Tracy
Hello! Great to see you here! I think you will find the games are different from when Gingji took the class 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHi!
He is tugging really nicely! The food drive will build more, no worries. You can be more interactive and less quiet when tugging -you can praise, make silly noises, get goofy… all of that gets built into the play and you will be able to use that when we play without toys too!
When shaping the foot target – he is doing really well here too. One small detail is to have the cookies ready before the bowl goes down. so you can be super fast with the food on the first reward. And, tuck the toy into your armpit or something for a more immediate transition there too, rather than having it up on a table.
Because he is so tiny, I recommend doing the next session on the floor so he looks at the target more and up at you less 🙂
The targeting in your hand is going well too. A couple of suggestions to make the mechanics easier:
try to leave the hand targe tout and further away from your body – extend your arm and lock your elbow (this will make more sense when you see what it is for in a few weeks :))That means that you won’t want to use the target hand to reach over and get the cookie – so use the clicker hand to bring the cookie over to the target (or don’t use a clicker at all, if you feel like you need 3 hands haha). Bringing the cookie over ot the target will build even more value for the target.
Great job here! You are off to a great start!
TracyGood news, the posts came through! My guess is that it was too big as one post.
The bad news – all the videos are marked private so I can’t start watching them. Let me know when they are unlisted and I will start working through. There are a lot of them so it will probably take me a til tomorrow.
>>I’m signing up for two of the mini brain camp courses #2 and #3. Are there any live spots still available??
Fun! I believe there is a live spot available in the “Perfect At Home” session?
Thanks!
TracyGood morning!
>>I like the idea of rotating the jump so she sees it.
That allows us to shape the concept rather than try to handle it.
>>In this sequence getting 3 the off arm is my left since she was on my right out of the tunnel. But, getting 3-4 the off arm would be my right arm as she is now on my left?
Let’s see if I have enough coffee on board:
She exits the tunnel on your right side and flips away to 3 so as she approaches 3, she is now on your left. So when she lands from 3, the right arm is now the opposite arm. So yes – use the right arm 🙂>>The off arm to get a lead change or out is new to me and one of my instructors just shook her head on Thursday when I used it for an out in class. But, it worked! She asked me if I really meant to do that. Yes, yes I did.
HA! That’s hilarious! The off arm concept has been around for a LONG TIME. But, like blind crosses, we somewhere along the way decided off arms were BAD. But the reality is that they work really well by adding clarity to the cue and making the cue very different from staying on the dog-side arm. You might get asked if it screws up your threadle and the answer is no, it will not screw up your threadle.
If the instructor (or anyone) asks about the off arm, tell them that it is from European styles of handling (because it is LOL!)
>>I might just set the 3 jumps up and send her around a cone for the “ tunnel.” I don’t have yard space for this set up at home.>>
That’s a great idea! And if you think back to the MaxPup ‘Wingin’ it’ games, you can just spread the wings about more and more and handle the concepts.
>>Plus, like I said we’ve been doing threadle training as it’s a particular weakness for me. Once she gets the concept I need either or to be sure sh3 understands not to come in unless I ask her.
I think for the threadle training you can help her by having yourself always in the picture. And for now, you can teach her that when working at a distance, take what she sees on her line. Eventually we put the threadles and backsides at a distance too (and on the other side of the dog walk :))
Have fun!
TracyThat’s so weird! It did not come through. I’ll go look at the back end of the software and see if it is hiding there?
Good morning!
Ah yes, this was harder especially when you were staying in motion. But she was getting it, especially at :37 for example when you moved very slowly.
It was even harder on the 2nd side with your motion.
Interestingly, she was sitting pretty well but with her front feet on the ground. You can try moving her plank a little bit more to center, so there is plank available in the spot where she wanted to put her front feet. I suggest this because it is possible that she is feeling very comfortable with that as a takeoff spot, which is great and we can go with it. You’ll know it is correct if she sits on the plank more easily.It is also possible that she will put her front feet on the grass and not sit even when we move the plank LOL! If that happens, you can keep moving but so slowly that you are barely moving. Try not to stop at all.
Being stimulated (with the toy) and you moving are the two hardest things for her jumping organization, so putting them in this early in training is great!!! Let me know how she does 🙂
Great job!
TracyHi!
I figured you asked about the book because of the hurricane LOL!Changste is doing really well with the zig zags here. Nice bouncing!! And the angle seemed easy for her.
The last great frontier here is going to be getting her to look at and drive to a reward target. She looks at your hands even when the MM is beeped, and definitely when you drop cookies in the bowl.
Because head position is an important element for great form, I think maybe we take food out of it entirely and go to a dragging toy. She’s done the foundation for this so I think it will work well!So lead out like you did, put the toy down about 6 feet past jump 2, release her from the stay, and move forward dragging the toy.
I’m not sure if the toy will hold her focus as long as food will, so don’t do more than 3 or 4 reps on the first session. Then we can make the angle tighter if she is looking down (or try something else if she is still looking up :))
Great job! Let me know how the moving target goes!
TracyGood morning! This whole session looked great!
One thing she did on all the reps:
She is having a little zig-zag between 2 and 3, so add a little more connection to help her straighten out that line – you had a soft connection but because she is young, you can add more dog-side arm back and more direct eye contact for now. At :40 you had a stronger connection and she was pretty straight 2-3.1st run and 2nd run, circle wraps: looked great! She was speedy on the line 1-2-3-4. You did a little decel at 4 that helped her drive in TIGHT to the wrap at 5… then she was perfect on the wrap. Very nice!!! I am loving her commitment on this skill and on all of the skills you cued on this video. Very exciting!!
3rd run, blind to threadle wrap: that went really well!!!! It is a new skill and it was quite smooth She jumped at your hands a little, maybe asking if there was a cookie or toy – but then went right back out. With more experience, she will anticipate being flipped back out and it won’t feel as rough. But considering it is a new skill, this run went GREAT!
>>Also, I’m not sure I know what to do with my arm cues to help her(?).
You did a an outside hand pull-and-flip and I think it went really well! Yo can keep your hands lower and even use 2 hands to make it look different than other cues.
4th run – backside slice – very nice! On this rep, you were supporting her a little extra so you ended up in her landing spot at :44, but rewarding her was totally the right thing (she seemed to have no concerns about it, nothing held over from the crash).
5th run – you sent to the backside more independently at :59 and she was LOVELY! You had the right amount of motion and connection, plus she is more comfy with the skill. Looked great!
And SUPER nice bind to threadle slice! It seemed very easy for her and that is AWESOME!!! We saw about 100 of these at the US Open last week LOL! And yes – if you can Fritzi nail it perfectly? No need to do it again LOL!!
Lovely work here!!!! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
