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>Today we did two runs at the fun run. >
What a fantastic opportunity to bring him into a challenging environment and play fun games!! Wow!
I love how you ran in and got right into the party – he loved the toy races and the drive to handler games, and did great going from food to toys.
>There was a little distraction and also crumbled treats that didn’t help for disconnection.>
I think he got depleted, meaning he got mentally tired. It is possible that after the initial blast of energy, he got brain tired and needed a quieter game with treats. Ignoring all of the distractions is ‘expensive’ on a puppy brain (burns a lot of oxygen and glucose, and then needs a recovery period). He is really young so depletes pretty fast!
The interesting thing here was that the depletion happened on both turns at 1 minute and 15 seconds into the turn. He was full blast for that time then needed a break. That makes sense, based on his age – he can’t go for a long time and be mentally engaged. And if you think about it: 75 seconds is the length of 2 or 3 full jumpers runs, so that is a long time!
> We only had one dog between these sessions and it was his friend the 6 month old BC that we did the rental with. He did well with her being outside the ring>
Even the short time between his sessions allowed him to recover. So you can shorten the time in the ring in these kinds of events – set a timer for 30 seconds and keep the high energy stuff to 30 seconds. Then maybe lower the energy and do some hand touches for treats, or lineups for treats, for another minute or so.
His ability to work at home will last much longer because his brain doesn’t burn as much fuel trying to process all of the stuff in the environment as he has to do in a ‘trial’ environment, so keeping the sessions short and sweet (the length of one run LOL) will really help at this age.
Great job!
Tracy
Good morning! These sessions looked really good!
On the Wind In Your Hair video, she did not want to drive ahead into the RC on the right turn side. She was turning left to look at you. It indeed could have been the ball changing hands was distracting, but it also could have been that the info was changing sp she turned to her left to see it. And the left turn RCs looked great! So perhaps it ws partially a ball-in-hand question, and partially a side preference question and she is a lefty 🙂 When you revisit it, start with the left turn RCs and see how she does – then try to right turn RCs. You might need to place the reward on the correct line to get the right turn RCs, and that is perfectly fine to do to help her sort out the turn.
>I was feeling so awkward getting connected to her for the slice jumping. Kyla did a few reps with her and I saw she was rotating both hands, which seemed to get her better connection.>
On the proofing game, the upper body rotation on the serp and threadle looked good here – you will feel it in your waist because that is where most of the turn is produced. It might feel like you are rotating enough to show both hands, because that really opens up the connection. She read them really well!
And a big gold star for the last rep when she drove to the tunnel with the strong verbal. Super! You can keep adding motion to this, and changing her angle a little bit too!
She is also doing well with the ladder grid! Her jumping in the gaps looks really good – lovely form and head position. She has a question right before jump 1, because she was a set up a little too far from it to get a good hind end push off. You can see her approach to 1 was a bit disorganized (changing front foot position) at :09 and :35 (hit the bar) and :49. She was not disorganized at :22 and :28 but she did do a front foot tap before jump 1 on those 2 reps. Ideally, she doesn’t touch the ground with her front feet before jump 1 after she starts moving, so you can move her start position closer to the jump – the sweet spot might be getting her front feet approximately one hands-width away from the jump, so she is closer and has to push off from her hind end more and won’t need front foot involvement til after she lands.
Looking at the diamond game: excellent job with your connection after the tight blinds!!! Perfect connection there! Your timing at :41 was perfect and she read it brilliantly (left turn). I thought your timing at :14 and :24 was also super good, but those were right turns so it was harder for her to organize. She was a definite lefty in these sessions 🙂
The race tracks are also looking really good! The one oopsie was at 1:03 when you went too close to the wing then ended up pulling away, which turned her off the line to the tunnel entry. Being connected and a little further away like you were on the other side set up great lines.
Nice work here!! Stay warm!
Tracy
Good morning!
>t’s funny that for months Aelfraed has said he’s a lefty but just in the last 2 weeks he has suddenly switched and said that right is easier. >
Interesting! Adolescence is certainly a wild ride LOL!
>Today Aelfraed was having an overall mad day. He was mad that I didn’t get him out of his crate swiftly enough in the morning, then mad that it was way too cold outside and he couldn’t stay out as long as he would have liked, tHe continued to be mad later and was more annoyed than he has been recently about waiting subsequent turns. He was also even mad in his car crate when we left the training facility (not normal).>
Weird! But also… adolescence is a wild ride 😂 They get extra fidgety and emotional, and maybe something was going on like a slightly upset stomach or disrupted sleep – enough to tilt him to be mad, but not enough that he had any other signs.
>hen really really mad that he got left in the car when we arrived at the training facility while both Sól and Lennan worked before he got his first turn. >
Seems rude, according to Aelfraed. LOL!!
>Considering his anger, I made a poor choice of first game as I decided to do the serp proofing game on the opposite side. >
Looking at the proofing video – the reps here were very good! He was very successful even with motion and different angles added. Was the poor decision part of it that he was breaking the stay? You can totally make the stay out and start him on a platform if that helps, or toss a treat away (or use the Treat n Train) to set up the start position.
> there was a lot of sassing the mama (removed from video) about coming back to set up again. >
This is where a good ol’ lure helps – you can use a cookie in your hand to led him back, letting him nibble. Sometimes a lure saves the moment with adolescents.
>Some of the reps start from a down and not exactly the positioning I was going for as he absolutely refused to sit and huffed himself down instead. Probably should have just moved on from this one sooner but he wanted to do the equipment so I thought he’d get happier about the game (I was wrong).>
Not wanting to sit might be a bit of something not 100% feeling good so you saw it manifest there. Or it ight also be the super fidgety/frustrated feeling that a lot of humans also get during the winter when we don’t have as much access to sunshine and the great outdoors (lots of science on how good this is!) For me, it is a weird fidgety feeling as if I have had too many cups of coffee. Dogs are tuned in to our daily cycles so while there are no studies that I know of about canine daily cortisol levels and melatonin levels, it certainly makes sense they would also be disturbed like our human levels can be at this time of year.
You can also plan to have running games as your first game of the session – more running, less thinking, so he can blow off some steam. Winter is HARD for young dogs in general (not a lot of sunshine and time to romp) and this winter has been particularly challenging.
He did well on the ladder grid – it was a wise choice to take the stay out of it 🙂 And I am glad he was happy to be held! His form is good! And consistent! Consistency in form is sometimes underestimated – we don’t want one good rep then a bunch of crazy reps haha!! We want the same good form in all reps, which is what you got here. His head can be a little lower, I think. But that was probably due to the toy moving as you released. You can start dragging the toy for 3 or 4 steps then release him, so he is more locked onto it as he moves through the grid.
The rear crosses went great! This might be a good game to do first thing because there is running and it is easy for him. The rear crosses went well on both sides – great timing especially on the left turn side!!
For the backside wraps – you are correct, this is the first time we put them on an actually jump. He did great! Your line of motion was very clear so he knew to go to the backside each time. Super! To get him to commit to the jump: shift your connection away from his face and to looking at the landing spot (you can also point to the landing spot with the arm closer to the jump). And toss the reward so it lands right near the landing spot. That will help him know where to look to complete the commitment.
The diamond is another good one for starting a session because it is al running and not a lot of thought needed.
The tight blinds are going really well! The 2nd and 3rd reps were nicely timed, so he had nice tight turns there.
When he didn’t go to the wing after the blind at :25, I think you were blocking the line a bit. You were a step further away at :35 so he could see it clearly and zippers right around it.
The race tracks are also going really well! His commitment looked good! You might have felt him be a little sticky going to the tunnel at 1:07 – that was because that tunnel entry was slightly offset from the line (not a straight line for him) so he checked to be sure it was correct and also he had to sort out the lead change away to get the tunnel. Good boy! The tunnel on the other side was on a straight line from the race track, so he was not sticky at all at 1:32.
He only had one question about the line, at 1:19 – as you took off up the line, too much shoulder rotation with you ahead which looked like the beginning of a blind (connection break) and with you laterally away from the wing, he came of off it and toward you. Good job continuing and rewarding after the tunnel! You were more connected and stayed closer to the line on the last rep, and he was perfect. Super!!!
Great job here!! Stay warm!
Tracy
Good morning!
Super nice run with Benni!Yes, the lead out push at 2 is a form of a serp, and you did a lovely job with the arm back – and while you moved, you held that arm back long enough that he picked up the turn to 3. Then you released the arm and ran normally again. Nice! In this case, you did swing the arm back a bit. You might not need to, or you might swing it back on both the serp and threadle. As long as you are consistent, the dogs will get it right. But we would also want to proof them coming in based on poison and verbal, so you don’t need to be perfect with the arm movement.
>I thought I was supposed to set him up close to the first jump?>
Up close, yes, about 6 inches away. On the rep where he was too close, it looked like an inch away which doesn’t give a lot of room to lift his front feet.
> So when I try it again with the long toy and leading out more, should I still just use 3 jumps or add one?>
3 jumps is good for now. No need to expand it until you can get out on grass. We have other grids coming that have 3 jumps too.
>What do you think I should focus on when I get home from the trial before week 5 begins? I couldn’t do the diamond game or any other game that needs much more space. I was bummed not to be able to do the “find the jump” game. Do you think I could modify that somehow in my basement?>
Since the tunnel is what takes up the most space on those games, you can replace the tunnel with a cone or two cones pushed together. That will allow you to set up both of those games in a smaller space and will transfer with no problem to when you do have room for the tunnel outside.
Have fun!
Tracy
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Good morning!
I am glad to hear that things went well at the seminar! I think there were several MaxPups there along with you and Dot!
>I sound grumpy but I promise I’m just tired.>
You don’t sound grumpy at all!
>I do have to practice using a leash! We did the seminar off leash but we will need one in the real world. >
Yes, so true!! That is why I play a lot of the resilience games on leash, because it duplicates the real world experience.
>We got to use our resilience attention game and we learned a toy even in a cooler is very hard. That’s a goal for our resilience game.>
The toy on the ground or in a cooler can be part of the novel-exciting element of the SSC games (which can also use the pattern game). It might have been extra hard because she was also in a new environment so her brain was processing a LOT and that is when impulse control can sometimes wane especially in early adolescence.
For the stay work:
The vocalizing might have been a bit of frustration: is it a sit or a stack, human? It seemed to happen as she was moving into the sit. I don’t mind vocalizing but you will want to delay the reward for several seconds at least, so she does not think the vocalizing is what you are marking and rewarding.And you can also help her with her question about sit versus stack by cueing it. It can be a verbal sit cue, or a hand cue. That can clarify things so she doesn’t have any frustration. And you can add in praise before the reward now too. We will be adding motion soon as well.
>I worked on the resilience game moving but I’m not sure if that was right. Should she make eye contact while I’m moving or when I stop? I ended up stopping to make it easier.>
When you are moving, she should be engaging while you are still moving. Eye contact might be hard when you are both moving but you can reward engagement towards you (looking at you even if it is not perfect eye contact).
I think what was also happening was she thought you wanted her to offer stuff when you were moving towards different spots, perhaps because she has offered behavior in that location before.When you stopped moving, she knew it was not a cue to offer any other behavior.
What you can do to add more movement is to put her on a leash and take her out to a spot in front of the house where she has no experience offering other behavior. That adds the leash in as a real world opportunity, and takes out any offering of other behavior from previous sessions 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
I think the weather has been interfering a bit: cold, gross, windy… You are not that far behind at all! You can keep working through the games and you will find it is easy to catch up. The games build on each other, plus there are some “easy” weeks ahead where we don’t add as much new stuff so folks can catch up or review. And there is extra time at the end to cover anything you didn’t get to.
T
Good morning!
His wraps are going really well! He seemed to turn well in both directions – maybe his left turns were a little more fluid? But he was happy going to both sides and loved playing with the toy. Yay!
You can start closer to the barrel with him at your side, so he has a clear idea of when to stick to you versus when to go to the barrel. When he knew when to start (hand/leg pointing to the barrel) he was quite zippy going to it! So starting right next to it with him at your side, then giving the big cue will get him having a clear start moment.
For the next session, add a line on the ground to tell you when to do the FC and run away. You were waiting for hi to just about exit the barrel before doing the FC and that was perfect for the first session. Start with that for a rep or two in the next session with the line right where he would exit the wrap: then move the line further from you and to before he exits the wrap (just by about 6 inches at first) – when he arrives at the line on the ground while wrapping, that is your cue to do the FC. And after a successful rep or two, move the line another 6 inches so you can do the FC even sooner! That will help get the FCs earlier and earlier 🙂
Great job!
Tracy
Good morning!
She did well with the plank wobbling a bit! Hopping onto it and getting off – no problem!
>I think she liked it LOL>
I agree! A good indicator that it is rewarding for her to do this was when she came running back to the plank each time you released her to go get a cookie. Yay!
Sitting? No problem! Down? No problem! Turning around was hard for maybe the first rep of each side – going in a full circle s hard to balance but then she got it really well later in the session. As long as you keep the hand lure slow and low, she can balance and do the full turn.
>SSC folding was going so well until it didn’t. >
“Going well until it didn’t” basically sums up puppy training LOL! 😂😝
She definitely likes this game too! It is easy peasy when the dish is right on the line, halfway around, and more than halfway around. Perfect! So let’s look at the cutting in:
It is possible that the ‘dish’ marker is too early here so she thought you wanted her to go to the dish. Even though it is a new marker, she might recognize the context of “when da momma says a thing, it means go to the dish”. Here is why that might be the possibility: At 1:22, it looks like she was going to the cone and then you said dish while she was till a couple of steps away from the cone (so she went to the dish).
At 1:39 and 1:56 you said dish as you released her, so she went to the dish.So for the next session, don’t say ‘dish’ until she is definitely at the cone, maybe halfway around it – then mark the decision to do the cone behavior with the dish marker.
The other thing that can help is if you are closer to the cone: that way it is easier to see the line to the cone and follow the hand cue – and less room for her to cut in 🙂
If you still have the videos from previous sessions, feel free to post them so we can see if the marker timing is indeed her question.
The prop game went well! She still has a ton of value for the prop and wants to hang out at the prop (this bodes well for getting a lot of distance later in her training :)) She was driving back to you a lot better here because the yes marker and presentation of the food was enticing and fun! You can also use a tug toy in this game. That way when she hits the prop, you can bring her back for a game of tugging that will get her driving back even faster.
>I think I broke my puppy LOL! Her toy play has kinda left the room. I don’t know if it’s the time of day (befere or after breakfast/dinner), if I’m using her kibble first for training then (trying to) use a toy, me – my mechanics or what really. >
It could be time of day (hangry!) coupled with the presence of food, so her food drive is overriding the toy play. It could also be mechanics and type of toy: if the toy is not moving or is too small (close to your hands or you are bending over), she might not be as interested in tugging. You can tie the toy to something long (like another toy) so you can keep it moving away from her, drag it around for her to chase, etc. but don’t lift it up or crank her chin upwards when she is holding the toy.
And use a really high value toy, and boring treats 🙂 Most of my dogs are PIGS 🐷 for food, so I never train them on an empty stomach: they might get part of their meal then a bit later, I train with food. That helped balance the food drive with toy play, and also gets better responses because they are not distracted by their hunger 🙂
She might also be teething, so use long soft toys that are easy to grab.
>Silly question, she is playing alot more with my older dog lately, is that jepordizing her play with me? >
Not really, but also that might be giving her enough toy play that she is tired when you want to play (or mouth is sore because of teething). But also, it gives you a good idea of how she likes to play. I bet the older dog is keeping the toy low and moving it (or trying to pull it) away, rather than towards her. So you can learn about Sunnie’s play preferences from her play with the other dog, but you can also limit it so that the really great tug toys are only for you and her to play with together 🙂
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning!
I am glad the beef is helping him feel good! The Fold It In session went great !
>I still need to work on my mechanics for timing around the cone.>
I thought the timing of your bowl marker was spot on – you were marking when he was definitely going to the cone and not just to the bowl 🙂 You can also add your wrap verbal when you let him start moving.
He did really well here – only one question on your left side, when the bowl was very visible and he tried to cut through between you and the cone. He got it on the next rep though and the reps after that!
He was definitely excited to go around the cone, so you can try to lure him into position at your side with a treat rather than pull him – it is hard to lure when sitting, so you can toss a treat behind you and then after he gets it, have him come to your side.
>I did a little too long with the food and need to watch that also.
One way to do fewer reps with food is to limit the treats you have with you: bring 5 cookies, do 5 reps, then it is easy to break things up because you have to go get more cookies 😂 😝 And in that moment you can play tug, to keep things exciting (or do a few reps with the tug then get more cookies).
Great job here!!! Have a blast at the fun run!
Tracy
Good morning!
The plank and wobble board looked great here! He seemed SUPER pumped up to get on both the plank and the wobbler – yay! Letting him offer is what contributed to his excitement because it gives him agency and gets a lot of reward after the decision to get on the plank/wobble board, which is very motivating 🙂 He was so quick here, I am not sure you could have slowed him down enough to let you lure him LOL!! The lure as a hand cue to turn around is perfect.
You can try the variety of stuff to walk around on again, letting him offer and see how it goes. You can also let him see Sadie do it first then let him have a turn.
Great job!
Tracy
Good morning!
The rear crosses are going well – they are really hard! Great job adding in the GO reps because that keeps him driving ahead and having fun as you work out the RC timing.
There were some normal ‘Goldilocks’ moments on the RCs:
The 2nd rep was the tiniest bit late at :07. The 3rd rep was the tiniest bit early at :13 (pushed him off the jump). Then the RC reps at :25, :36, :45 were just right: timely enough that he could see you getting to the new side before he had to make a takeoff decision on the jump. Yay!
On the other side, a similar progression to find the timing: the RC at 1:00 was a tiny bit late (he was taking off turning to the Go line before the RC info was visible). The rep at 1:12 was just right! I thought the rep at 1:24 was good but he said it was late and he gets the final say in the matter 🙂 Maybe he didn’t pick up the turn because it was almost too early and he had to squeeze by you to find the jump? Maybe he is a righty and so the left turn info had to be SUPER early in order for him to organize turning left. The last rep, 1:40, was really well-timed, nice and early, and he got the left turn. Yay!
For the next session, you can add the advanced level of the backside circle wraps.
For the serp proofing game:
You can change the setup slightly so he can see the tunnel more easily but rotating the jump placement 90 degrees: his line should be directly facing the tunnel entry (he had to collect to turn to get into it here which is why he went around it on the first rep) and the jump goes on the line between him and the tunnel. That will add more challenge to the proofing because the tunnel will be sooooo easy to get 🙂
The serps look good here, he seemed to have no questions at all! And he also did well with the in in threadles – you can leave your threadle arm back for him to find the the jump, because the arm & verbal should me come in – go out. That way the threadle will be more independent and he won’t wait for an arm/shoulder cue to take the jump.
You can add motion on that side in the next session, walking through the serp & threadle lines.
Great job here!!
Tracy
Good morning!
The distances on the bumps looked more comfy here for sure! She did a lovely job turning towards you in both directions. I thin the right turns were a little harder perhaps?
>Tried the turning away and that didn’t seem to go that well. I went back and looked at the video again and maybe need to add a target or something…>
As the proofing gets more challenging and she has to discriminate between turning away and turning towards you, a couple of things will help to solidify the verbals:
– we want her to hear the verbals before she moves and before she sees any handling cues, so line her up in a start position and hold her collar. Say the verbal 3 or 4 times, then let her go. That allows for processing time before movement and will increase the rate of success.
– for the turning away, line her up on an easier angle so she is facing the bar rather than turning away in order to get to it. That can totally help her find the line on the turning away
– If needed, you can totally add a target (bowl or toy on the line) between the first 2 bumps. That visual aid can give her the ‘aha!’ moment that tells her that it is OK to turn away from you 🙂
When she’s got that, you can move the target to between the 2nd and 3rd bumps, and the fade it out entirely.
The zig zags are off to a strong start! The mechanics might feel a bit weird 🙂
Her start position should be right next to the wing like you had on the 2nd rep and after it (like at :45). When she was on the other side of the first wing, (first and last rep) you can start her closer to the wing: sitting right next to it and facing the 2nd wing.
The handling cues to get her to go in and out fall into the category of “as much as needed, as little as possible” so there might be some experimentation on how much handling she needs. If you lead out to the 2nd wing and face here, you can cue her to zig zag in and out with your arms with minimal foot movement, like you did at :50. That will allow her to zip in and out while allowing you to fade out the handling. You can also have the wings a little closer together (maybe a foot closer) to challenge her to change leads sooner.
Great job here!
Tracy
Good morning! These sessions are all super strong!
Looking at the serp/tunnel/threadle proofing video:
This was a WOW session! The feedback here will be boring 😂 You set him up perfectly for the serp challenge here! Everything was spot on: the obstacle set up, his stay position (facing the tunnel), your position relative to the jump for the jumps, your reward placement, and how you made. The handling and verbal look different when you cued the tunnel.
The serps on the first few reps were perfect! He has a little more value for serps right now than he does for layering to a tunnel – you did a great job breaking it down for him! And then he went right back to the serp went cued.
He also did really well with the new threadle cue – and a double click/treat for you for all adding in stay rewards when your threadle arm was extended.
My only feedback is that you can keep your threadle arm back as he comes in to you and don’t use it to cue him to take the jump, because the threadle arm cues nothing the come in AND go back out to the jump bar. If you leave it back and let him sort that out, you will have very independent threadle slices. We don’t want him to wait until you turn your arm to the jump as permission to take it.
So overall – this session’s setup and mechanics were AWESOME and that is why he was so wildly successful. Next time you can start adding motion!
The ladder grid session also went well! He is doing a wonderful job of staying organized even with the aded excitement of motion and a moving toy. I like this distance for now, he did a great job!
For the moving target toy, switch to having a longer toy to drag so you can be upright instead of leaning over. And, lead out more so to the toy is 10 feet or more past the last jump before he gets to the last jump. I think the leaning over (which is pressure downwards on his line) plus the toy being so close were what got a lower head position here – a bit too low. And that might also be part of why he ticked the first bar on the 2nd to last rep (it was a back foot, I think) – a bit too much excitement with leaning over and the toy close. He was also a shade too close to the jump on that rep. You being upright and the toy being further ahead will fix all of that.
>That will be it for jumping until next week so he will have a rest.>
Because he is so young and because he already has lovely form, a rest is good! There is no need to do a lot of jumping because he is well on his way to being a great jumper.
Looking at the FCs:
>I have trouble sending him with the toy in my dog side hand but I guess he will get better at that. >
That is part of the embedded impulse control challenge: can he go past the toy to get to the wing? I like to throw in impulse control challenges a lot LOL It was hard for him because that is one of his favorite toys
Part of the challenge is to be connected on the sends: if you point but don’t connect, he doesn’t go to the wing (1st rep). If you connect even with a little point? He goes directly to the wing (2nd rep)
>Hopefully there is some improvement on my part here.>
You rocked it! They were perfect on the first side! You had a small challenge on the 2nd side at 3:54 where you didn’t get get the connection: your dog-side (left) arm was not pointing back and out of the way to show connection, even with the toy across your body – so motion overrode the the verbal there and he thought it was the serp. You fixed it on the next rep at 4:05 and after that, and he was great.
On each side, there was one rep where he was going to the other side of you on the way to the toy (at 2:22 and 4:06 where you got him back to the correct side). That was a subtle disconnection moment. The rep was excellent til you looked forward and pointed forward, which accidentally cued a blind cross on the get it cue. He reads everything! So even in that moment, be connected to him by saying ‘get it’ directly to him and not to the toy 🙂 A classic disconnection is where the dog is behind us and we look forward and point forward, and say the cue to the obstacle and not the dog. So try to always deliver the cues to him (and not to the obstacle) when he is behind you or next to you.
One other thing I notice: he is relying on an arm swing back as the cue to come in for the serp. When you don’t swing your arm back (or do it really late), he doesn’t come in like at 3:00. Compare to the other reps (like the next one at 3:11) and those all have tile arm swings. If you want the arm swing to be part of it, do it earlier at 3:00. Or you can make serps into a locked arm and have threadles be the cue which has the arm swing back. That is one of the ways my dogs differentiate between serps and threadles (arm movement or not).
> Why is it so hard? I feel like I don’t trust his commitment so I stay still too long. Is that what you see?>
It is hard because connection is hard – a small subtle handle cue needs to override the motion, and I think it is even harder for smaller dogs because they are closer to our feet/motion and not our faces. Plus it is a brutal mechanics challenge for us humans 🙂 with the off course jump right there – our cues need to be clear and timely or we get the off course. I found this game to be much easier with my 20” dogs than with my 12” and 8” dogs. Dipping my shoulder down a bit to really show the connection helped the Papillon a lot.
> I will persist and keep trying! Funny how we forget that we can’t take things for granted with puppies/young dogs!!!>
This is SO true!! Adult dogs have learned all this even if it was through a different path, and that makes puppy training feel so much harder.
Great job here! Have a blast at the trial!
Tracy
Good morning!
>she did manage to pee on the grass!>
Victory!!!!!
I think the lap and tandem turn sessions went great!!
>It’s too rushed>
Do you mean she is too quick to get back to loop back to you, or she is rushing?
> and she is struggling to turn as she needs to slow down>
This is more about the timing of the cues, more about that below.
The lap turn session went great! She (and you) seem more comfy turning her to the left. Those were lovely!
There was one blooper on the right turn side at :41 – that was mainly because your turn cues were too early (leg stepped back to soon so it was not available to draw her back when she got to the turn hand). It was also the 5th one in a row – you don’t need to do that many. You can do one then play with a toy, or two in a row as a loop then break it off. Doing a whole bunch in a row will generally lead to someone messing up (human or canine, usually human 😂) and breaking it up is easier to keep it clean and successful.
The tandems are also looking really good! Going back to your question:
The tandems are built off of handler decel – so her questions were mainly because you actually moved forward fast while she was heading towards you and also trying to turn her away so there was a bit of a conflicting indicator: accelerate or decel to turn?
When you decelerated on the left turn side – those reps were pretty perfect 🙂
On the right turn side, you had more acceleration so that is where the tandems were a little harder. When you were sure to decel then turn her, she was perfect.So be moving away as she goes to get the treat, then slow down to lock her onto you hands, and I bet she nails it every time.
Great job here!
Tracy
