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Hello and welcome!
You raise really good points here, and one of our first goals is to get the humans to plan differently to process things earlier (not faster, necessarily, just earlier :)) which helps the dogs process and respond better! Young dogs, in particular, need this help so I am going to try to do all the demos with the ‘baby’ dogs (eek!!)
Have fun!
TracyGood morning and welcome! I see all sorts of good agility results going by on Facebook!!! Congrats!
There is a lot of stuff here… but it should be easier to keep up this year because it is structured a bit differently 🙂
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TracyHello and welcome! I am excited to see more of you and Nox 🙂 She is so fun and the perfect age to get into the bigger courses now! Have fun!
TracyGood morning and welcome! I am looking forward to seeing Watson tackle these challenges! And I bet there are some things that Levy can do too, he is looking great 🙂
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TracyWelcome back! And yes, the heat has been a lot recently 🙂 I bet we are all going to be working around the heat this summer 🙂
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TracyHello and welcome! I am looking forward to ‘meeting’ Whistle! And I bet there will be some stuff you can do with Fritzi too 🙂
Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
> It was like giving her a cookie and then cuing the frisbee toss. Just giving her the idea like teaching them a clicker. I was literally asking for nothing!
Thanks for the context – I think asking for nothing was the reason she has the big emotional response 🙂 I have not found teaching food value as a straight 1:1 pairing like charging a clicker to work for most dogs and, as you saw, it can elicit a big emotion response.
I take a different approach to building value for things that are undervalued (such as food, an more recently – balls!). There is movement, excitement, an environment that is already drenched in happy emotions, and no pressure – all of this ends up building up nice value while keeping things funs and maintaining. For example: you take the wing-tunnel setup, a couple of frisbees, and a meatball or a big piece of string cheese. The wing-tunnel setup has value, based on her response to it (FAST! Engaged!). So you do wing-tunnel and then toss the big piece of food. If she even engages with it in the most minimal form: throw the frisbee. Wheeee! No pressure, you are not near her, she can start off without even needing to eat it: just engage by chasing or sniffing it. Then frisbee fun. We are basically inserting the food into a big joyous loop without demanding a lot of the dog in that moment.
It has been an absolutely great way to happily build value for things we need without any pressure or stress or big emotional responses. I will get it on video today so you can see what I mean (I use the joyous loops to insert a lot of behaviors and build them up and it works every time :))T
Hello and welcome back to you, Wager, and perfect-never-naughty Spot 🙂 I am excited to see you all again!!!!!!
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Hello and welcome back! I am excited to see her again now that she is all grown up! Fun times ahead 🙂
TracyHello and welcome back to you and the Schnauzer crew! I cannot believe Mali is 15 months already… time flies!!! And Lit’l Bit is 5!!!
I am looking forward to seeing them!
Tracy
