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Rear cross with foot target. Once again the baby wins prizes and My mechanics do not. That lap turn is weird for my body, I’ve never taught a rear cross from the ground in this way. I have partially relied on the dog driving ahead (and hoping my timing was right) and when I have tried to teach it on the flat, the method was not like this at all! It was trying to be purely verbal.
We’ve got focus forward, we’ve got front crosses, we do not have a retrieve to hand. He’ll bring it back when we’re inside, but he has OPTIONS! when he’s outside. (Also i’m really over this windy, misty weather – everything is MOIST) The “lol” indicates a little poop break heheh. I should try to get the mic on my earbuds to pick up what I say – cos you can’t hear much in these two videos. haha
babby basics for rear crosses. He did some lovely work. I was also super happy with his sit stays – we’ve been working on these and he just kind of “got it” today, offering a sit with some duration. I didn’t cue it and wasn’t expecting it, but when he offered it, i used it.
The lap turn was hard for my mechanics ahahaha.
OMG it’s been a week! (and what a week – committee meetings, union stuff, insanely busy workload and miserable spring weather) But now we’re back! Looking at week 5’s exercises it looks like I need to value build the touch target and foot target more. But found some games to play where we’re at
Novel exciting – really pleased with how he reacted when i dropped the toy:
Hooray for daylight savings, we’ve got daylight at the end of day!! Doing forward focus with a bit more distance…no risk of me getting to the toy first. Haha I’m so slow.
The first rep he pulled out of my hand which is why I laughed.
There was one rep where he tried to pull out of my hand. I think that was more frustration at not being able to get to the toy than me holding his collar. But I did some value building for me holding his collar on our walk later.
I don’t know how anyone is getting through all these games. Stupid work keeps getting in the way.
I never go anywhere (other than dog shows) so the suitcase is completely neutral hahaha> Do they play together to burn off some of that excitement?
They do (this is my first time ever having dogs that play together). Frank is not the most skilled at managing his own arousal so i let them go for it for a while, but if Frank starts humping Barry we need to separate. I did tell Frank to tire out the dumb baby.
Treats: that was the chunky dog roll – freshly cut – as it “matures” it gets a bit crustier! He was also probably hungry and now has more adult teeths for ease of chomping (currently no canines cos they’ve all fallen out).
I did a pattern game in the kitchen at the factory and he had super low latency.
Arousal: It doesn’t help that FRANK is also hyped after training so they bounce off each other – and earned themselves some quality crate time hehe.
Yesterday was baby Barry’s 5-month birthday! Where did the time go!?
We’re back in the wallpaper factory. This was the second session. I did a session earlier that was just two bowls and he really struggled because there was a dog barking. But this session the working dogs were much further away.
This was also his first time playing with the inflation too. Afterwards I did some focus forward toy play. He is very aroused when we got home, I think partially cos it’s so late (got home at 10.20pm!)
Parallell targeting, when he wasn’t too focused on me, he hit that target pretty good. 🙂 (hope you can see it ok, I always struggle to frame it right. )
You may not recognise him! I defluffed the baby, and now he looks like a real dog! (Hoping he’ll grow into his head and feet lolz)
I think his focus forward is coming along, when I didn’t yell in his ears hehe
Working on some collar grabs. He was quite low energy. I might try it again with a toy.
Teaching the start of middle is always a nightmare for my mechanics. But we got there.
Here we are doing send and go. https://youtu.be/wpisxgzB6mc?si=6g3WC7-58RX3uk6Q
This was before I drank all the adult beverages. (Posting this after consuming adult beverages)
Don’t mind the floor, Barry took enrichment to new heights as I worked a nearly 12 hour day and he found stuff to shred.I was quite pleased with the hand touch reset. I’d never done that with him before but will often do that with my other dogs so I didn’t think about what i was doing til after it happened.
It’s definitely been a long week
