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“Was he looking over his shoulder at the other dog walking past while he was on the start line? He released well on the 2nd release cue and was SUPER fast!!!” – yes, at least 1/2 of his brain was focused on the PWD here.I am noticing that he does adjust his speed to the surface he is running on – doesn’t like slipping
Sand and dirt = super fast
Turf = a bit slower
Rubber matting = slower yet“What happened at 3:00 – the cue was unclear so he zoomed to his right. Did he come right back?” yes, to the fence and then right back – my plan was for a BC but he got there before I did hence the unclear cue. Right now, the 2nd ring has more draw than the class area – known vs unknown – would doing some short sequences or playing some superbowls at the fence line help?
The video is some ring entrance / exit work with remote reward and distraction. I’ll add in some more obstacles next session
I do have a seminar this Saturday morning with an Arron Froude, the subject is commitment so we’ll see what we can get done there.
Hey there, glad to have this extended opportunity!!
This is from this past Mondays class. I try to make class as trial like as I can. Out of his crate 2 to 3 minutes before his turn. Some pattern games, out of camera here and then down to the ring entry. Some tricks at the entry and then some chill work before going in. What would have helped me here – some more tricks or hand touches at the line He definitely had the Pwd on his mind, went selectively deaf on me for a moment.
For his last couple of classes, I”ve broken out the course challenges and worked on them as short sequences -limiting disconnects and upping the ROR.
He’s got the end of run part down pretty well – knows where the jackpot is and is towning me back there LOL
Long lead outs like I needed here = abandoning him at the line. Add more talk more connection? I needed the lead out to have a chance at getting the blind in after 4. even with it, I didn’t make it there in time – he may be a bit faster than I am
Thanks for a great class, I found it to be super helpful. I think he’s so close to getting it all together, just need to figure out the couple of missing pieces.
Will not do much with him until Monday night,so this will probably be our last post.
Plan going forward is:
– pushing the distraction work in class
– music is good as a distraction??
– keep building our chill and volume dial skills
– keep working on find my face skills
– going to give running my invisible dog this monday night
– need to get back to working on end of run routine
– keep building running in class with clean hands – treats and lotus ball in pocketI do have him on a CPE trial 1/4 and 5. Cut back to 3 runs each day and I’ll keep them short – success is good.
Going to enter some UKI in February, March and April, 3 different venues.
Looking forward to hearing your ideas for the support group. I would love to be able to bounce questions off you
Thanks again
Tom, Coal and just retired CodySome stuff from our Monday class. I really like this pattern game for him, but it is a hard one to find room for. The mats are to keep the food tosses out of the sand, although the Cheetos do show up pretty well. At 18 degrees, it was tough getting ring crew volunteers even though I fed them all chocolate. Ring crew here was sitting right next to the tunnel entry and I think he did well! Ran him by her a couple of times. The 2nd ring was calling him though. RC was probably not my best handling choice for the two jumps after the teeter.
2nd run, I changed my helper from ring crew to leash runner for some pressure behind.
Also substituted a FC in lieu of the RC for the jumps leading to the tunnel – much better.Next step with the ring crew here, once he’s solid with them sitting, maybe have them randomly walking?
Might have been him trying to keep warm, but it felt like he was leaving me behind in the dust last night
Speaking about the weather, 18 degrees – how cold is too cold. I did keep him in a nice warm car when not working.
Happy Holidays to you and yours – enjoy!!
Played around with ring crew challenges at yesterday’s drop in class. There were 4 of us there including the instructor. No video
Had a chair positioned at the end of a 3 jump to tunnel sequence – that one was not problem, marked it with a “good boy” followed by a lotus ball toss.
Had another chair positioned behind him at the startline – that one was tough with the pressure behind. Did some volume dial games, some ready steady Freddy slow lead outs and some one jump focus forward to help him work thru it.
Last chair was positioned next to a tunnel about 3 feet behind the entry. 1st rep the ring crew got a bit rude playing with a towel, he fell into the trap. Next two reps were good. But then I started wondering what was I marking and rewarding, successfully passing the ring crew or the tunnel performance itself.
Also did some work with him watching me placing his lotus ball on a table and then doing some work with clean hands – did have some cookies in my pocket. I think I need more work on fading the visual of the ball in hand.
All sounds OK?
He does know the 1,2,3 pattern, that would be a good one for moving him from A to B
OK, no more foot stomping. The instructor is great with the handling but a bit old school with behavior work. We’ve been working together for a long time and she does accept me as her flaky student – I’ll get some eye rolls but life will go on. For the near future class runs will be all about rewarding passing ring crew instead of rewarding performance – he goes by I mark with praise and toss his lotus ball – yes?
Listened to Mondays Zoom today – it was nice to hear you talking about one of our runs, the work he is always a give away.
Yea, I’m pretty good at ignoring unsolicited advice. Got a great one from the judge this past weekend – I should arm the ring crew with squirt bottles when we train LOL.
As far as the ring crew placement, I put out the chairs when I build the course and I generally pick “in his face” locations. Should I make it a bit easier for a while?
“Yes, build up the volume dial skills but I think finding a way to introduce ring crew into the picture will be more important. Do you have classes or seminars or ring rentals between now and the January trial, so we can plan for getting ring crew in there?” – I will be doing a drop in class tomorrow and then the next two Mondays before the January trial.
I’ve been incorporating ring crew into our class work whenever I can. I’ll have to come up with some ideas on how to make them ruder! Last week I had 2 out on the floor playing catch with a lotus ball while we were working. One of the dilemmas is that he knows all these people. Some dogs are “I don’t know who that is so I’m going to avoid it – Coal is more the I’ve got to go find out what it’s about type of guy. I need a bus load of random strangers -maybe take 1 jump and work outside our local dog park?
Apologies for the videos being a tad long – these are from our Monday class. I usually do put him in the lineup following Trixie the PWC BSS to work on his waiting his turn skills with arousal – good plan? I think he’s in a good state of arousal in both his runs here, his tell is how responsive he is to volume dial games when at the line.
Had a discussion with the instructor about popping the weaves, she asked why are you rewarding him – my answer was he’s working with me and he did a lot of good stuff before he popped. I will generally take issues like this and resolve them in a ring rental when we have the time to work it out – 2 minutes out on the floor is enough time to test skills, but not enough to teach them in my view. I do also make it a point to always reward a return to me no matter what the reason for the disconnect was.
Run #2 – again, I think he was in a good state of mind here, resilient and responsive.
again we followed the PWD- resilient and responsive. The backside slice was tough with the tunnel staring at him – it was all about me moving!! The threadle wrap we worked out yesterday – I’ve got to loose the bending over LOL
Question – the MYOB seminar you have coming up – is it the same one that I have already from last year or is it new and improved?
So we did a 2 day CPE trial the past weekend. Did way too much! He was fried 1/2 way thru Sunday. Crated him out in the car, it was warm enough. Took him for a decompression walk after each run
1st video is our pretty typical line up routine, some pattern game and I added some volume dial outside the ring – volume dial in the ring was hard for him all weekend
2nd Video is the run that followed
3rd video is the last run on Sunday – I gave him something short hoping for success so we could end on a good note – more for me than him, he gets jackpotted anyway no matter what.
Next trial opportunity will be January 4/5. I’ll pick one day for 3 runs
Going to work on building his volume dial skills between now and then
Good morning – this was our 2nd run at this past Monday’s class. Did some chill after taking him out of the crate, some pattern games outside the ring and then some volume dial work. Pattern games were probably too close to the ring, should have played them for longer duration.
He blew thru his DW contact on both his runs, always a good temperature indicator for his state of mind.
I missed 3 obstacles after working the threadles with him just kept going, never knew a thing.
Trial went well, learned some stuff.
– Worked him crated in my car all day – that’s the way to go for us
– Trial site was tight, I had a hard time finding space to play the pattern games, so I defaulted to letting him chill. would playing pattern games outside before coming in help him or is that an experiment I need to try?
– Volume dial games in the ring were hard for him all day, a sign that his brain was on the downslope of the curve heading to the abyss – yes. Need to find some places to train these better under distractionRun #1 – ring entry, jump tunnel jump sequence, ring exit to jackpot in the food area. Went well, Not on video, forgot to start the camera.
Run #2 – ring entry, 5 obstacle sequence, ring exit to jackpot in the food area. Went well, Not on video, someone moved my tripod so I got a 2 minute clip of the back wall.
Run #3 – video below – Need to do some setups in class with the leash runner leaving with the leash. Got his stopped contact on the DW, contacts are always the 1st to leave when he’s distracted. Things were going well until he noticed that the lid was off the jackpot container, went in and helped himself – was able to come back and do some stuff with the container still in place
Run #4 – video below – was going well until I tried to add in the unplanned 2nd time for the tunnel instead of running to the exit – stick to the plan Tom!
Run #5 – I got lost in the run order, somehow went from you’ve got plenty of time to you’re next in a heartbeat. I had a hard time tracking my place in line in all runs, hard to pick a marker dog when every other dog at the trial is a Black and white BC. Had no time outside the ring for his prep which impacted us in the ring. Should have probably just scratched instead of trying to wing it.
Love the idea of your support group – I’m in!
Yes, my plan going forward is to get off the line quickly so I will be dropping or short tossing to the leash runner. The leash always ends up in a chair at the facility where we will be doing most of our trialing so I want him to get used to that picture hence the placing it while training.
So sequence work we did on tuesday – some long lines, good for some go work and some layering. He’s got the go tunnel down fairly well, it worked out well in the 1st set. Should I have used the go also at the tunnel exit, it might have helped with his checking in with me.
2nd set, I can see that the verbal said tunnel, but my body said jump at the 1.42 mark.
Whole session is an example of less arousal = less speed. Now I’ve got to read the YD stuff and see what arousals effect is on learning – is he learning more when he’s thinking clearer?
And this was yesterday, rehearsing / training my plan for UKI coming up this weekend.
Ring entry, some volume dial, a short sequence and then to leash, leash on and to his reward station. The trial I’m going to will be issuing the food reward option I hear. From what I understand, there are entry and exit chutes and food can be used in the exit chute. Plan will be to set up a reward station in the exit chute, I will have a couple of friends there, one could drop his target while I’m in the ring.
Should I be thinking otherwise?
So this was the run after the snuffle work. Also did a bit of chill before we entered the ring. Also trying to make the entries more trialish – coming in while the dog before is leaving.
Do I own the disconnect at the start? Left him on the line for a while getting rid of stuff.
End of run, I have a reward station set up by the exit, a target dot up on a bench, he hops up on the bench for a jackpot. Then it’s back to the crate for a bully stick chew.
In general his crating at class keeps getting better. Very rarly do I have to cover now.
Played around with adding some snuffeling into his tool box last night. It definitely slowed the game down, which I’m assuming helps lower arousal?
Good morning
“One thing I notice here is that he has gotten even faster recently! This is exciting!” – yes it is – with him, I believe that speed and arousal are directly linked, he needs arousal to run fast, no or low arousal = ho hum, too much arousal and he can’t think. So it’s a balancing act keeping him in the right state of mind. The work we’re doing here and pattern games in general is definitely building the levels of arousal he can work with, that’s a good thing!This video is our typical per run work – some pattern game to chill to volume dial. he’s taking some looks at the ting action – a bit of LAT, but he does snap back to me. towards the end, when he does lock on a bit, there’s a big Rottie coming at him in the weaves =he did refocus on me fairly quickly – yay
