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Good morning! Welcome back! I am SUPER glad to hear he is not injured and doing great. He is a fantastic little guy!
Because he was already enrolled in MaxPup 1 and wasn’t able to fully work it due to the question of if he was injured, I’ve refunded the tuition for this one – it is Agility U policy to roll things forward to the next class if a dog can’t complete something due to injury or illness or some extenuating circumstance. It doesn’t seem fair to have to pay for it twice!
>Skizzle is now 13 months old. I’m excited to work through the exercises again with a dog that has more training experience and sometimes more maturity. I hope we’re ready to take the next course in the series when this one is completed.>
Yes, a 13 month old pup does bring a new level to the training – it will be fun to watch! I am looking forward to your videos!!!
Tracy
Very cool!! I don’t know a lot about the line or the litter, but I do know Josie and Katniss: they are fantastic! Tribute has great relatives and I am excited to see him! He looks great in the video – I love his little hop when he was chasing the ball across the wobble board. And it looks like he is already very comfortable with sheep! Wow!
Cool! It was so fun meeting your girl last night and your new building is AWESOME!!!! I will get an invoice over to you at some point today, and in the meantime you can start posting if you like 🙂
Tracy
Welcome!!! It is great to see you here and in the live session last night 🙂 It has been way too long! I am excited to learn more about Journey 🙂
Tracy
Keep me posted! It is a great way to play around with slicing behavior without having to worry about things going sideways 🙂
Tracy
Welcome! Bokeh is so fun 🙂 I love that we have 3 littermates here – it is so fun to watch them train!
Have a blast!
Tracy
This is so fun, it is like a family reunion!!!! Sazerac sounds like so much fun, and I love her name!! I am looking forward to seeing her!
Tracy
Hi!
>Coming up with the name was what convinced my spouse getting another dog was a good idea 🙂>
SMART! 🤣😂
> Cartwheel has simultaneously started nosing and pawing the target item (a little tile sample square) at the same time—is the pawing an issue that I should try to tighten up my criteria on to get only the nose touch (he is really good at doing them together)? Or is the pawing not an issue to try to eliminate for this? I don’t feel like the behavior is strong enough to be too picky but I also can see the pawing is becoming part of what he thinks is the way to do this!>>
I have 2 answers for you:
– based on where we take this target game in a few weeks, it doesn’t matter right now if he is hitting with nose & foot at the same time. The foot smack will go away very quickly in that game.– it is a great opportunity with a baby dog to play with ways to isolate a behavior and not get any other behavior… without telling him he is wrong. Since he is 4 month old a toy poodle, I am guessing he is very small (and very cute haha) which probably means your hand is pretty low which makes the paw smack easy. So you can play with ways to isolate the nose – this can include changing the angle of your hand, so the target is a little higher and tilted downward, so he has to reach up a bit to nose bop it. Let me know if that helps! And you can also mark/reward a little early: just before his nose touches it, and before his feet move – and you can even toss the treat away so you have time to be ready as he is moving back to you after eating it.
I do know that small dogs have very fast feet, so it is a fun challenge to get them to not wiggle the feet or smack something with a paw 🙂
Keep me posted!
TracyHello and welcome! Your intro of Quill shines with your love for him! I am so happy for you, he sounds like such a fun little guy!! I am looking forward to meeting him here 🙂
Tracy
Hello! Good to see you here after having fun watching Barry on the BrainCamp site!!! He is super fun and you are doing a wonderful job with him!
Tracy
Welcome back!!! I have such fun memories of you and Dora 🙂 I am excited to meet little Roy – he must be SO CUTE!!!!!
Have fun!
TracyWelcome! Hooray for Papillons! She sounds like a blast!!
You will see 2 Papillons show up in the demo videos here 🙂 but they were born in 2012 and 2014 respectively, so I don’t have many foundation videos of them. Keep me posted on how Poppy is doing with the games!Tracy
Welcome! I am glad you are here!
I don’t think 10 months is behind at all – PoweR will have a little more physical and mental maturity, so he can really power through the games pretty quickly!And I understand the struggle with motivation – our main goal is for you and PoweR to have a GREAT time playing together, then the rest will come easily 💓
Tracy
