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I see what you mean about the backing up LOL! And you tried my next suggestion which would be to sit in a chair.
Ok, so since he loves the down so much, we can take a different approach to the backing up (your back will thank us haha). Do you have an x-pen? We can make a channel out of the x-pen where we lead him in and then he backs out. I will see if I can find video of that.
Also, the game where we start them on a destination then they step back to the destination will really help: start will something big and all 4 feet on, then lure front feet off so he steps back out, then we build it up to backing up fully. You can see more of that in the advanced level backing up games.
Your mechanics on the wobble board session were GREAT! Tugging, cookies, moving the board in and out – worked beautifully!!
He was very happy to get his front feet on the wobble board – good board! He was less enthused about back feet, and that makes sense – the board moves a lot and he is still developing the skill of balance 🙂 So, to get more confident back feet on it, stuff a whole bunch of towels under it so it barely moves – then you can reward for back feet on it, and even tug on it! Then over a series of sessions we can fade the towels out one by one
Great job here! See you in class tonight. :) Tracy
Awesome! I am looking forward to the wrap videos to! And yes, we can reward “almost” as the games get harder, because it is all shaping where we can reward successive approximations 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHi again! Another super nice session here!
he only hard part here was the timing 🙂 Because she is so fast, the timing worked best when you started moving while she was eating the cookie – that allowed you to do the blind as soon as she finished the cookie and took one step towards you. That was the timing that Amy did on her rep (hi Amy!) and that was the timing that you did on the last rep. She has great food drive, so you can even start moving away before she arrives at the cookie – I am pretty she is going to continue to to cookie 🙂
Keep up the good mechanics and connections! You were very clear with that and she read it beautifully.
Great job on these! See you in class tonight!
Tracy
Hi again!
She was great about offering getting on the object here. She looks like a pup that loves to keep moving! If that is the case, you can give her a more advanced version of the goat games: instead of instantly rewarding her for interacting with it, you can delay the reward by a second or two so she stops moving LOL! She doesn’t have to sit, she can stand – but standing with all 4 feet on the object can be the goal in order to get her to offer without the need to keep moving 🙂
And keep playing this with as many different objects as you can. Great job!
TracyGood morning!
Her drive forward looks FABULOUS! And it sounds like it was in a new location (for the first part (hi Susan!) and out in the big field for the second part. Yay! She was SUPER FAST here, driving ahead easily even with you running. That was great and I also love that she did bring the toy back pretty quickly. In the big field, she brought it back after a little bit of a loop around, but that is fine because she is a teenager and probably needed a couple of seconds to look at all the ‘stuff’. And then she brought it back even faster on the 2nd rep! Super!Since this is going so well, you can add in the deceleration game so she balances her drive forward with tight turns.
Great job!
TracyHi!
We definitely don’t want frustration! And knowing both of Muso’s parents… we want to do lots of resilience work and make sure we don’t build in frustration (then Muso will be the most utterly perfect creature ever). Both of her parents can get frustrated easily and don’t have a ton of natural resilience – but that is fine because we know it and we can add the resilience conditioning and ward off frustration in training 🙂
>>Also, I did a Soshana Dos seminar months ago and she encouraged teaching a ‘get in to me quick! And bypass everything else’ cue. It startrd as a pivot in place, and progressed to adding it into sequences similar to the advanced level of your exercise with the turn/pivot. I have a cue for it: soo soo. Should I use that here, or just let her turn off my body cue?>>
Since there is nothing to really bypass, you can just use a body cue. And we can don’t need to train a lot of bypass on a small dog, we need to emphasize commitment 🙂 Plus the current International trend plans more towards commitment than bypass, so it is not a high priority for baby Muso.
T
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I think you can start her with the backside zigzags at this stage, if she will go to the placed reinforcement (since you can’t outer her to drag it :)) and also, open up the angles of the jumps so the line is easy 🙂Have fun!
TracyHi! I think her sit position contributed to going around the jumps on that first one – she could easily see the line past the jumps and could not really see the line over the jumps. So you can move her over so she is almost touching that first wing and see if that helps!
T
Hi!
Bummer about the snow 🙁 Countdown til spring is ON!!!!!For the trax game, I don’t think the actual disc matters because it is more about the olfaction. So they can be different 🙂
T
So much fun to be training both agility and flyball!
To post the videos, load them to YouTube first, then copy the YouTube links here in the forum. YouTube has been down today, though, so don’t be surprised if it gives you hassle 🙂 I think it is back online but I am not sure. See you later!
TracyHi!
A lot of these early games are to establish trainer mechanics and not really train the puppies LOL!! So with that in mind:
>>I was struggling keeping the clicker and treats organized and I know some of my clicks were late.>>
The most important thing here is the quickness of the reinforcement delivery… so get rid of the clicker. You were clicking then digging out the treat so it was delayed and that builds in more looking at you.
And yes since we are training her a bit too 🙂
>>It totally depended on where I threw the treat as to whether she put all 4 feet on. I will keep working on this. Is the goal for them to understand to offer all 4 feet regardless of where they start?>>
Yes – we want all 4 feet on the plank, So you can wait for her to get all 4 feet on rather than reward for only 2. The other option to make it easier to show her that we like all 4 feet on is to put two planks side-by-side so that she has a wider playing field. These teenage dogs need a lot of room to move all those legs LOL! And a wider playing field will help her turn around t because that is definitely challenging 🙂
I think she is doing really well with all this body awareness stuff! With young dogs, our motto is definitely “Progress Not Perfection” so re-visiting these skills once a week or so will lead to great coordination.
Great job! Let me know what you think!
Tracy
