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>> I am only mentioning this because you had commented on 2 of the 4 videos I posted yesterday and I wanted to make sure you had seen the other two – one was on ready dance to the prop and one was our second try with Blind crosses. If you just haven’t gotten to them, no problem and enjoy your Thanksgiving.>>
I didn’t see them, I can scroll up and see if I can find them.
>>3. Is it better for me to add all new videos etc. at the bottom of the page or is it better to reply to the critique of a specific video by hitting the reply that is with that critique (hope that makes sense)?>>
Definitely better to add it at the bottom. In the high volume classes like this one, it is easy for something to get lost if you add it up above but also put new videos below it. So, adding to the bottom is great 🙂
T
Hi!
Your tug noises are hilarious! I guess we are all silly like that 🙂She did great here with the new objects! You’ve clearly done a lot of good value building for getting on/in stuff and she is super at it!! So you can add a little more action: rather than feeding in position on the item, you can toss the treat off to the side. That way she will get on it, balance, then get off for the reward… then drive back to get on it and balance. You should brace anything that might move with your feet, so she can hop on stuff without it moving out from under her.
And great job with the quick tug breaks! Perfect!
Hope you have a good Thanksgiving!
TracyOMG! He definitely loves his food LOL!!! This is a good thing, he has really great food AND toy drive 🙂
T
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The easiest way to do it is to upload your videos to YouTube then copy and paste the link into your thread.
TracyHi!
The easiest thing to do is upload to youtube then copy and paste the link here in your thread 🙂
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!
Tracy
