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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?
T
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!
Tracy
