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> I am stomping my feet now: I wanna go to the beach in NZ!!! I am very jealous
heheheh… part of evil plan to get you to visit again. haha> his arousal was definitely higher
Oh yes was in a different place entirely from where we normally are. I need to get him out working in a few more places. His arousal at club has also gone up, probably cos we haven’t been down very much lately (just the last session i posted at club and the seminar). We’ve got a long weekend for Easter so will try to get out and about rather than rotting on the couch with the PlayStation.> then smacking you with his foot
He give such great feedback when I’m not being clear haha. Love him. He’s such fun boy.Took baby baz to the beach yesterday for a walk by himself. He did great we played with toys, with him happily retrieving and chatting the next toy, we did LOEO, we did some stays. He ran through the surf and chased some birbs.
Today I had so much stinky work we managed to do some shipile. He’s much more careful than my other two. I think they have more value for targeting all the things with their feet so felt more confident flinging themselves over things. Frank switched into his crazy dog head space (i didn’t tug with him, just working for treats was enough to shift him to the wrong end of the arousal curve.) You can hear Frank’s sad little cries and my partner doing online gaming.
And I did a little back up. My timing wasn’t as rubbish as I thought in the session… my treat flinging could use some work.
Seminar update
Baby Barry was in a class with dogs 13 months and older, 2 of whom were borderpaps. There was sequencing! We did not sequence… oh we did a barrel wrap to a tunnel. (Adding my motion to tunnels is gonna be a challenge).
We had some whites of eyes, which I’ve never had before. But we did some pattern games and brought him down again.
Super proud of his commitment to a barrel, with a bit of distance and a bit of motion.
A good experience for working in a distracting space with mama being weird cos there was an instructor.
(Comparison did not steal my joy, baby Barry was called a naughty poodle…. he not naughty…he just full of the joy of life).He could do retrieves at club away from gear but struggled on the session. But that’ll come.
Me and Baz have a seminar this weekend. Eep. instructor is a top nz handler and we’re in a group with someone who has made up a supreme champ and who is sequencing with their slightly older pup. Eeeep.
I keep telling myself that comparison is the thief of joy and barry isn’t a borderpap. And i have a full-time job, unlike the other handler. But you know how it is, my brain is dumb.
It is at club so a familiar environment and I’ll go down nice and early and do all the things you suggested from the videos with high arousal. Thank you for the reminders about pattern games.
Also watch this dumb baby adolescent start retrieving!!!!
We’d had a few reps before I turned the camera on. We had so much success i thought I’d video so you can see it too!!!
Super duper happy with this session. Baby Barry coped with some new ideas with a toy on a stool. I played round with where reinforcement came from. Once he locked in the toy on the stool want an issue… the first rep he thought about it. Even when I reinforced from the stool he was able to lock back in. I worked so hard on the body language, he managed to read my body language mostly. Ha ha.
And because it was there, we did some tunnel work. You can probably watch this on double speed – haha – not a lot happens for most of it. (First rep is about 55s in (LOLZ to that bloke in the background, i didn’t seem him on the day, but barry obvs did and he did a couple of barks and was generally a bit worried about him). I did lots of playing around and running away from him, cos i was feeling silly, at one point i was racing him to the toy, went to bend down, remembered what happened last time… hesitated… and barry won the toy haha. He did some quite tricky entries at the end. (I cut out a couple of bit where I gave him a little break and had a chat to my friend).
Parallel path once his buddy had gone away. This was the last thing we did and he was so much more focused. Really proud of him.
PHew ! We went down to club yesterday for the first time in ages. And Baby Barry’s focus skills took quite some time to warm up!
So I started with trying to do some parallel path, but his BorderPap buddy that he loves to wrestle with was doing some training (a good 30-40m away – and we could not have any kind of failure or we bailed). So you can fast forward through the first 45 s of the video to see that an attempt was made haha, then I moved about >100m away, with no visual distraction but he could hear other dogs (and mine) and there were kids playing sports behind the building behind me in the video – you can skip ahead to about the 2 min mark because I cannot get him to focus, he can’t even tug! Eventually, We do get some good flow on the running contact mat. At the end, I just start start throwing the toy “winner winner chicken dinner”, letting him have a romp, then asking if we wanted a lolly, He eventually started bringing the toy straight back… so It’s not a perfect retrieve behaviour but it’s a place to start (i cut out most of the retrieve reps cos you don’t need to see that, and half of them were off camera.)
> He is such a fun partner that hopefully it felt great to get outside and play with him
He is. He’s such a super buddy. He’s fun to train.
Then to close, we did some baby running contacts with arousal. At the end i even popped his toy on the step to see if he could do it, he stuttered heading towards the toy then recovered. Awesome baby!
Then we did some parallel path over a “jump”. I do not remember doing this exercise the first time round… and baby Barry was certainly asking some questions at the start of the session. I think he got the hang by the end of the session.
Dug deep and found some motivation. Started out this session with some SSC. I did the set up as you suggested and we had much more success.
The physio gave barry the once over and he’s fine – but she doesn’t think he’s quite finished growing!! yikes! Time to put bricks on his shoulders haha – i don’t want him measuring into the border collie height group.
