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Oo. Looking forward to me having bandwidth to view those games. Ha ha.
We had hoopers training tonight. He coped with so much! There were dogs barking in cars behind us, the usual class to the right and Flygility to the left!!! And towards the end… some fireworks! And he did the things! a couple of bail outs but he came back. He had forward focus.
The foundations are there! Thank you so much.
I also have Nexus Agility judge training this week, so there might not be much video.
Mwah – thought I posted this but did not! Here we are playing on the seesaw.
I started with no movement, added some movement – realised it was too much – then dialed it back a bit. Slowly added a bit of distance from me.
(The election was indecisive… we have to wait til the special votes are counted… I’m not holding my breath that it makes enough of a difference to stop the asshats getting back in.)
Me… early… barry better not
Get used to that. Hahahahhahah.Also we had a breakthrough at hoopers class, he was super hyped and i was feeling teeth when treating. I eventually remembered the advice i give everyone else about pattern games and just did some chucking treats side to side with Baz and he then did some amazing work, sequencing more obstacles than he has ever sequenced. Also it was guy fawkes night and he worked through fireworks going off!!!
So anyway here’s today’s attempt at doing the forward focus game….i did get to the far end of the tunnel… but the tunnel is about 1m long haha.
Also woohoo on your 🌊. Keep nz in your thoughts for Saturday… Hopefully we can ditch the Rightwing neoliberal asshats in power at the moment.
And here’s me playing with the wobble board. He’s getting the idea about back feet, still struggling with the back up. I rewarded weightshift backwards when he still had back feet on the board.
This is the first 30s and the last 30s
Hello! We did some single step sends today.
I thought he did quite well. My small space is being crowded by the dog walk (which doesn’t have a ramp at the other end haha) but running contacts are slowly coming along.This is all the reps. I just cut out the rewarding and tugging.
> Spoiler alert: it looks like Dangerfield has a US division. Bye bye money LOL!!!
All the dresses have POCKETS!Today we played at a friend’s agility paddock. This is the first time barry had ever been here and i think he did super well.
Afterwards we played around and i was super pleased with how much commitment he had to obstacles to let me get ahead (even did a baby level layer, barry went tunnel to tunnel while i layered a jump.).
the pants DO have dogs on them. Dangerfield is an aussie clothing brand with cute stuff like this.
Here is us adding noise to the wobble board. At first he was suspicious, and one time the board slid, but he got pretty confident at the end.
And here’s us doing some wobble board.
Towards the end he started nearly backing up. I think i need to make it not wobble for the next session to encourage the back up.
I thought I’d done a lot more of this during the break between maxpups and yesterday tried doing bang game down at club with the seesaw but barry was absolutely not having it. So went all the way back.
Also on the video i realised how much these trousers look like pj pants. Hahaha
Here’s an accordion. I think i made the distances too big.
Initially it was 6 of my feet which was about 1.5m/5′
Should i be aiming for him landing in the middle?
I then put the jump out 1.2m (the length of a pole). And he double strided, so i bumped it back a bit to get the single stride, then back to original position.
I couldn’t get the lead out to start with so back chained and he was rock solid. I was nearly throwing the toy on the ground (offscreen).
Hello! My last 2 videos before maxpup2 finishes! Thanks for all your support. I’ve truly appreciated the excellent feedback. I can’t believe how far we’ve come.
Looking forward to Maxpup 3.
Here i am working on directionals again. Left “over” is no longer sticky hooray.
But I’m struggling with getting him to take the grid while in middle.Starfish! ⭐️🐟
I had some fun. I can see on video why he did better on some of those wraps, when i hunched. In my head they all felt the same…i might get someone to clicker train my body.haha
I’m actually super proud of his focus… you’ll see all the swallows and he only went for them when not working!
Went down to the local sports field because my backyard is very squelchy. And i didn’t think i could reliably speed up and decel without ending up on my ass! And the drainage is definitely better there!
We did wind in our hair… and the environment was giving wind! The first couple of reps i forgot to rotate. But when i got my timing right, it looked good!
I want to take advantage of next week cos I know the course is closing and i value your feedback so much!
Whether the weather plays ball is another question altogether! The video from today was the BEST weather we’ve had all week!Before today’s session i did a little bit of building value for a hoopers hoop and a mini pinny (we’re slowly getting there!).
Looking forward to Maxpup 3!
Mwah the weather has been absolute sucky this week. On Friday we had water and power out for most of the day. And I spent most days in town doing trade union stuff. mwah. So today was the first time training for most of the week cos my brain juices were all used up.
The opening couple of seconds of the video explains why there are a couple of reps missing from the start of the video. Once i realised the tripod had fallen over, I stood it up and the ground was soft enough to jam the tripod legs into the earth ahaha. Wherever there’s a cut, assume I’m tugging and treating the boy. Although the toy was soggy and gross by the end. (there’s also a photo at the end of the video that explains why the tunnel was not too much of an off course risk. haha.)
