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Good morning and welcome!!! I am very excited to meet Rye!!!!!! he sounds adorable and also very drivey 🙂
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Tracy
Good morning! Welcome! I have been following Ender’s adventures on Facebook and he is ADORABLE!!!!
>As we were doing the pre games- he struggles to go from good to toys. (Like all my other ones) Definitely want to work on that while he’s a baby. >
This is totally normal for most dogs 🙂 To help get toy play happening when food is also around:
Since he is very food motivated, you can use low value food in his shaping sessions (the most boring food possible). Then when you want to break it off to play tug, you can grab a toy and run to a different room or down the hall or anywhere away from the treats and the treat smell.
Use a long long long toy so you can swish it around on the floor, moving it away from him, like a fastcat lure 🙂 You can even run back and forth a bit, dragging the toy. And when he gives a little bit of interaction, you can then go back to the food shaping in the other area.
Moving him away from the cloud of food smells and using the long moving toy will help a lot! Then over time you can get the food and toys closer together til he can go back and forth easily.
For the toy, I recommend a fur toy 🙂 That will hopefully be VERY EXCITING and really help get him grabbing it even in the presence of food.
>Should I get more toys that I can put food in? I have some lotus balls. He’ll tug and play just fine when there’s no chance of food>
You can use those, but he probably won’t tug on them. You can get a fur pouch and put food in it, then shape him to pull on it in order to get you to open it to feed him a treat 🙂 We can approach getting more toy play from all of these different ways!
Keep me posted and have fun!
Tracy
Hi!
His nose targeting is going well too! We got some of the nose-whistle frustration communication because he was not sure what would get the reward. So we can do a couple of things to make the hand target more salient for him:– rather than have it in front of your body (where he might also be thinking about engaging with you and making eye contact), you can fully extend your arm away from your body.
– as you present the target fully extended away from you, shift your focus so you are looking at the target and not at him (this is hard, he is very cute :)) When you shift your gaze to the target, he will shift his gaze towards it too!
– since he also wants to use his feet, you can raise your hand a bit (sitting in a chair might be the easiest) and you can also tilt your target hand so your palm and the target tilt downwards a little bit towards the floor – that is a way we get more nose and less feet 🙂 The feet are not a huge concern because this game progresses in a way that he will not want to use his feet, but it is fun to shape him to use his nose and not his feet.
I forgot to mention this in the reply above – as you begin to stand up, you can go to a longer toy to help protect your fingers. His tugging is lovely here and I don’t want him to accidentally grab flesh in his zest to play 🙂
Great job! You are off to a wonderful start!
Tracy
Good morning! Welcome to class!!
Moth is adorable and brilliant 🙂 And It is a good thing that he lets you know when he is getting frustrated – that communication is important and also, you’ll see that we have a TON of arousal regulation and resilience built in everywhere in this course.
The tugging before/during/after shaping sessions will go a long way to helping with arousal regulation. Very nice tugging to start with in this session! He immediately interacted with the foot target and that fit reward get him really engaged in offering. Good patience letting him work through that it was all about the shoe (and not just looking at you :)) – after that, it was smooth sailing with LOTS of good hits and rewards. Super!!!
Since this went so well, the next session should have you standing up. That can change the picture considerably, so feel free to mix in some rewards placed right on the shoe 🙂
>He does have a tendency towards reactivity and we are working with a behaviorist to make sure he stays in the realm of appropriate for a puppy.>
Good for you for helping him out in this regard too!!! And don’t be concerned if, as he enters true adolescence, you see a resurgence of some reactivity – that is completely normal as part of their brain development.
Great job here!
Tracy
Hello and welcome!! Ingot is fabulous – adorable and FAST!!!! Thanks for the video (and the song :)) I am excited to see more!!
Tracy
Awesome! I will go look for the private lesson stuff.
Poor Maisy!!!! That has to hurt. I wonder how she did it?
T
Good morning!
It is great to see that you still have grass and decent weather to be able to do sequencing!Looking at the grids:
>With the single jump leading in, she jumped relatively tucked and upwards, but with two lead in jumps, she was much flatter and extending through her rear.>
I see the hind end carrying versus pushing, and I think it had to do with her learning the grid and also the toy probably being too close (and your position being too close to the last jump). If the toy is too close, she will be preparing to stop over the last jump rather than push off through it. The further the toy is, the ore she will jump it with hind end push, so have the toy at least 15 feet from jump 3 (maybe more). I like to drag the toy (while I am walking) so it is moving and encouraging the dog to keep moving through the grid and not prepare to stop.
The other thing to add is you being out at the toy and not near the 3rd jump – that will create a question about whether she should collect or not (and she does look at you a bit there). Having you at the toy, 15 get away, and dragging it will make it clearer for her.
The sequencing went really well!
She has some bar questions on shoulder turns (might be a combination of processing handling and processing 14”) so just be extra connected for now and she will work it out.
First sequence went really well!
>I tried to walk it with a blind 3-4, but it just didn’t feel right, felt like extra steps compared to a front cross.>
Based on where you were (ahead and decelerated), the FC did make more sense there and worked well!
>Second sequence leaving out that 5 jump, also felt most natural to put the front on the landing side of 4. Putting it between 3-4 felt like I would pull her past the tunnel entry.>
Based on who it laid out on the ground, I think placing on the landing side of 4 worked great!!!
2nd run was very good first run was bars and disconnected
2nd sequence – nice change in position to get the new line!
>Then I decided to try the first sequence with a rear on 5, which meant I’d need to go deeper to 3 to show the right motion for the rear and that was harder than it seemed! I got a few turns the wrong way on 3, or not committing to it (I’m sure it was all me, I tried to reward her on each).>
Yes, it is hard to be ahead and decel into a RC!! Doing it without the lead out worked best to be able to set the line. On the reps where she turned the wrong way like at 1:35 – 136, she correctly read the left turn – you pushed in towards the center of the bar on the turn cue then stepped backward (right leg) which crossed the RC line.
At 2:16 and 2:37 she might have come off 3 because you pulled away fast/disconnected, and she had just been called into you there a couple of times for the reward 🙂
But on both of those reps you mogit have been over-helping the turn: as she is at 2, start to tell her about 3 (2 hands is useful like you were doing) then keep moving along the line towards 3 rather than pull backwards, as that was pulling her off. You moved forward through it at 2:47 and it was lovely!And you did set up really nice RCs at 2:51 and 3:09 – she was able to drive ahead and turn the correct direction. She was sorting out her mechanics so you’ll see it get even smoother as she sees more of those.
>For second sequence I also bumped up jump 1 to 16”.>
That was hard for her for a couple of reps! That is where you can take more time to let her look at the bar for a few seconds after you have arrived in your lead out spot but before the release. And setting her further back seemed to help too
Great job here! Fingers crossed for more good weather!
Tracy
Hi!
The countermotion game is looking great! My only suggestion is to walk around the jump with your arm in serp position the whole time: partially to get him used to that picture, and partially so he doesn’t associate arm movement with the release.
Since he did so well, you can continue to add motion by continuing to move forward as you release, and by gradually moving faster and faster 🙂Great job here and with all the games! It has been super fun to watch him develop!!! Have great holidays and see you in January!
Tracy
OMG that is so cute!!! He is very well-spoken LOL! Thank you! And Merry Christmas back to you, from me and all of my various dogs 🙂 See you in the New Year!!!
Hi!
Good job moving closer to the cone at the beginning – I think he didn’t quite recognize the setup for a moment!You locked into the mechanics pretty quickly – you were calling yourself rubbish but actually it went really well when he was starting on your left side. On your right side, it took another moment to lock in the hand movement – the lower the hand, the easier it will be. It is a cued behavior (not offered) so you can put your hand right near his nose to cue the head turn. You did that really nicely on your left – are you lefty? You started to get it at 3:40 with your right hand – I think he might also be a righty, so the left turn side (on your right hand) was harder for you both.
He was jumping up a bit after the turn away, but I am not worried about that because we fade out the hand movement pretty quickly.
He did ask for a tug break at 2:00 by trying to steal the toy 🙂 so you can totally break it off. These slow cookie games might be a bit boring to him, so breaking it off to tug more often is great! He did get a good tug break in here and then came back strong for the rest of the session.
>(and that tui singing in the background is lovely.)>
So cool! I will have to play it for the app on my phone that recognizes birdsong. I love to confuse the app which does not think it will hear a tui in Virginia, USA hahaha
Nice work here!!
Tracy
