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Good morning and welcome to you and Zane!
Do I remember correctly that I met Zane in SLC? I am excited to see him in action (and there might be some stuff you can do with Dice too, we will see some guest appearances from your MaxPup classmates, I think :))
Have fun!
TracyGood morning!
I am so happy to see you here with the grown up boys; I look forward to my updates 🙂
And for Alonso – the 2nd MaxPup is called MaxPup Agility Foundations (proofing, handling, jumping foundations).Have fun!
Tracy
Good morning and welcome to you and Enzo! Your first CAMP was with PATT! Then Lollipop. And now Enzo!
You and Enzo have become a really amazing team! Only a year of trialing, WOWZA! It is so fun to watch your adventures on Facebook 🙂 And he is only 4, the best is yet to come! And I am looking forward to adding to his toolbox for the challenges ahead 🙂Have fun!
TracyGood morning and welcome! I love the hearts in your thread title 🙂
You make a really good point about not being sure about Ripley’s timing needs and specific handling needs… because it is too soon to know, fully 🙂 So if you feel a bit unsure? Totally normal 🙂 and the timing/handling needs will change as he gets more experienced and the bars go up and he gets even faster. We begin with looking at the dog’s current needs and beginning to catalogue it all, as a jumping off (pun intended) point for building up the sequences and courses 🙂
Have fun! I am looking forward to seeing more of you and Ripley!
TracyGood morning and welcome to a working spot!! Hooray!
(No hooray about the van, but I am excited you are home this week to get started :))
I am excited to see Mazi again, it has been too long 🙂
Have fun!
TracyHello 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 🙂
Have fun!
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 🙂
Have fun!
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 🙂
Have fun!
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
