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Great job with the video, she did really well!! She drove ahead perfectly and your connection was spot on. Nice work adding motion – you can keep adding motion and more distance so she drives way ahead. 🙂She didn’t totally love being held or moved by the collar, so you can use some food to line her up, take the collar, give another cookie, then throw the toy. That can help her like the collar grab/hold a lot more 🙂
She did well with NOT trying to run away with the toy (the long line totally helped :)) and you can also build up the retrieve: as she is arriving at the toy, you can turn and run away, calling her. And when she takes even one step towards you… you can whip out another toy from your pocket and reward her for not running away 🙂
Great job! Let me know what you think!
TracyGood morning!
>> Yeah, it was a strange new place. I was smart enough to bring my “barrel” before I read your reply.
That was great, and totally helped! He actually did a LOT in the new location! And did some really good wraps. It is totally good to jumpstart the behavior by dropping the first cookie to help him, as if to say “this is the same wrapping game”. Once he got going, he did really well. And kneeling was a smart move, that helped too!
>> So no Turn n Burn for us yet 🙂 I could try to turn n kinda short burn at home lol.
No worries, you made all the right choices. You can try the Turn n Burn at home with that short burn 🙂 or you can wait til the next time at the barn (but it is really fun so I recommend the short burn variation 🙂
He also did well with the driving ahead, and that was an excellent choice to play to help balance the wrapping. I was especially excited by how well he went from kibble to the toy!!! When you throw the toy, you can also be moving forward so he gets to accelerate ahead while you are also accelerating. Will he let you hold him by a collar/harness or his chest? That will help build the fun of the hold and also allow you to play the big toy races 🙂
>> I think I over tired him. :p I did bring Dreamer and we worked his threadles too. I put each of them back out in the car in their crates when the other was working. Dreamer wanted to bark when Casper was working, and Casper definitely wanted to bark in the crate inside the barn when Dreamer was working. >>
Yes, I am sure he was exhausted! The games were not physically demanding but the travel, the waiting in the crate, and the brain power he needed to pay attention in the new place all probably caused him to be tired, mentally. But it was a great first experience in the barn and I think he looked great (and also super cute in his coat :))
Nice work!
TracyNote on both of the stay videos I am trying to use a variable schedule:
sometimes I reward immediately, sometimes I go a couple of steps, sometimes 1 step, sometimes 5 steps, sometimes 2 steps… the goal is to extend duration by using this ping pong concept without making it harder and harder and harder (which can be deflating for puppies!)And also note that I don’t care where he sits – if I ask for a sit (or he offers it), he can be sideways or facing me or anywhere. I don’t require he line up at my side or anything at this stage.
I also don’t use a ‘stay’ verbal for him. Sit implies stay. There is nothing wrong with using a stay verbal, but it might not be needed 🙂
T
And I did some of the more explosive stays too with the tug. I added in some food rewards too, because he thought this was REALLY VERY EXCITING and was chattering/clamping the toy a bit. I want it to be “exciting” but not yet “REALLY VERY EXCITING” hahaha!!
“Break” is the cue to move forward out of the stay position, and the “shhhhhh” noise means he should chase the toy in my hand. This is different from “get it” where I throw the toy away from me, and different from “bite” where he should grab the toy in my stationary hand.
Woohoo, the Brain Camp escapades (40 hours of seminars built from entirely new content) are finished so now Ramen can get some training on video.
First up, the clicker stays. I am strange, I LOVE to train stays LOL!!!
“Catch” is the marker for “I am throwing it back to you”
Hi!
The collection sandwich looked really good here! She was very keen to follow all the handling and she was pretty perfect! Yay!One handling tweak – make a faster connection after the blind, so she can make the side change sooner (the connection is the cue, so if you take an extra step, she is waiting to know where to be).
Since she was spot on here, you can pump this up 2 ways:
throw the cookie further and give yourself more room, so you can run run run into the blind before the decel 🙂
Then, make the decel like you did hree (it was great!) but with an empty hand and don’t give her a treat… do the pivot then go right into the toy throw and the go go go.
I think she is ready for both of those ideas and she will really like it because there is even more action 🙂
Great job!!! Let me know how she does!
TracyHi! Good question!
The cue to take the prop is your movement forward on the line like the parallel path game. Just like a jump: if we are moving towards the prop and it is on the pup’s line, the pup should go to it without us needed to do anything else. So it is the lap turn then move towards the prop, and reward for interacting with the prop.Tracy
Hi! The barrel wraps looked great, and I swear he got faster and more jazzed up when you stood up! It was like he said: wait, what? ….. OH YEAH I GOT THIS! Fun!!!!
So yes, you can move to the turn and urn game, but:
>>I’ll try the turn and burn later today when I head out to the barn>>
Be sure to bring this barrel, and also if he has never been to the barn before, you should ‘warm up’ the game with the barrel wraps like you did here. And if he ‘remembers’ them, you can try turn and burn. We don’t want to add new location AND new game at the same time. If he has ben to the barn and is comfy training there, then you can do a quickie warm up and move to turn and burn very quickly.
Keep me posted! Great job!
TracyI am glad you took the Puppy Plunge! Pry is amazing and it is so fun to watch you and Annalise play with her 🙂
T
Hi!
He did REALLY nicely with the tall cone! Super!!! When you move the cone further, the bowls can stay where they are (near your feet) because this adds even more distance to the wrap. And when you reward, drop in just one cookie 🙂 If you drop in several, it takes a longer time for him to eat it all and go to the next rep. So you can continue to play this sometimes, getting the cone further away.And yes, you can totally add your movement in the turn and burn game next! yay! Now things get FUN FUN FUN 🙂
Great job! Let me know how he does with Turn and Burn!
TracyHi!
I love the line up of objects here!! He was interested in the toy in the first video, but when it was just right in front of him it was not stimulating enough. So you can try having him chase it as you drag it along the ground (a longer toy can help). If the toy is wiggling in front of him, he doesn’t seem excited but I bet he would love to chase it!And yes, the game is highly associated with food yumyum! LOL! So he looked at you a lot – and stumbled a little because he was looking at you and not at the objects. So to help him. you can use a cookie on each on, placed down on the object – that will help him keep all of his feet on an not slip off. When he was looking straight and looking at the objects – he was great with his balance. When he was looking at you and the cookie, he would sometimes forget his hind end 🙂 On the 2nd video, you moved more slowly and that worked out better in terms of keep all of his feet on.
And then after a back-and-forth with the cookies, you can give him a break and throw the toy around for him to chase, away from the cookie area.
Great job!
TracyHi!
The backing up is looking really good – he is smooth and accurate, going step-by-step and not flinging himself back. Super! I couldn’t see you in the video, but it looks like you were getting increasingly further away. You can have more of a variable approach to increase the distance: sometimes be close, sometimes be further, then start close again – so the distance gets harder very gradually and not always getting harder. That will actually help to increase the distance!
You can also shorten the session – at the end, you went into a down and that was probably fatigue. It doesn’t seem hard to humans or adult dogs, but this is quite a workout for baby dogs 🙂 So you can keep the session to 3 or 4 reps, then let him take a break 🙂
Nice work!
TracyHi!
Great question about the barking:
>> This is a bit odd: we’ve been wrapping wings, with motion, in sequence, for a long time now, and she has never barked at me. I’m not sure why we’re getting barking with this exercise. She rarely barks when we work outside, even with Frisbee (her favourite), she will do tricks prior to sending to a tunnel or a wrap or just a throw. Why is she barking now?!>>
I can think of 3 reasons why a pup would bark in work or play: Arousal, frustration, genetics.
Genetics…. um yes, both of her parent have been known to be a little vocal in work haha particularly when frustrated (which is why we look carefully to make sure she is NOT working in frustration because we do not want o build that in. We are building resilience!)
And since we are working in arousal, you might get the barking sometimes, like you did at the end on the ready, ready moment at the end of this session. That is fine and gives us a good barometer of where she is on the Yerkes-Dodson curve (high, and also maybe a little tired). But that bark at the end was not a frustration bark from what I can tell, just a “yeehaw!”
There was one bark here that I would consider a frustration bark, right at the beginning (:10). You sent to the barrel but did not have strong connection (you were looking forward at the barrel and not at her). So she barked: “WHICH SIDE MOM” – she almost turned to the right then went to the left. Good info from her!!! You were wonderfully connected on the rest of the session, no more barks.
Also, the session had a SUPER high rate of success – no barking. If you scroll up, you can see a session from earlier this week (Prop game you posted on Dec 6) where she had some frustration barking when she had errors and didn’t get rewarded. Rewarding effort and slicing the behavior into smaller slices (especially if she has had an error) will help reduce the barking.The whole session was really mostly silent and really awesome! On the handling around the barrel you were doing BCs instead of FCs which is fine as long as you sometimes do FCs too to build that skill- your blinds had SUPER nice connection! The toy on the ground was hard at first then she did great with that. When you have more room, you can add more running too the toy by placing it further away. I am pretty sure she will love that LOL!!
Great job here! Let me know what you think about the barking ideas.
Tracy
Hi!
Very nice mechanics on the lap turn! It was actually hard for her to play with the toy after the cookies at the beginning, good job clarifying that for her. She was definitely seeming to think that the prop = COOKIES LOL! So this was more of a session about the back and forth between cookies and toys in the presence of a toy-based object. She did great!
After the cookie toss, when she turns back to you, let her see a bigger picture of the lap turn cue: have your magic cookie hand fully extended towards her and you are leaning over. And hold that position til she is just about at your hand. When you did that, she was really perfect (like on the very last rep). When you were a little more upright or later in showing the magic cookie hand, she had questions about where to be (like at 1:29).
Great job here! Next step is to use a bigger space so she has more room to go past the prop, and also add in the advanced level which will look more like the fancy threadle wraps 🙂
Tracy
