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We did some rocking horse flick aways. My focus was on rewarding when i made a mistake, he got many cookies. At one point i kept sending him round wings trying to figure out what i was trying to do with my body… but hey he seemed to enjoy it.
> (only one blooper at 1:16 where he looked at you and saw you facing the straight line to the other tunnel entry, so that is where he went.
Yep I knew it was me as soon as it happened. 🙂
> your praise was too exciting
I know!! <Sobbing emoji> I tried to dial it back but it’s so hard. And then when i finally pull it together, Jenny celebrates too hard hahaha. Ah well, pay the puppy – he’s doing his best with what he’s given.I saw your FB post about people blaming their dogs, I see it a lot as a judge – It’s very disheartening sometimes – watching these dogs try their little hearts out and get blamed. One handler was blaming her dog in my ring, as she went out, I said “your dog tried very hard”. But she didn’t believe me – she made a point of coming over while I was still judging and talking to someone within my ear shot about how her dog was this and that. I was so close to turning around and telling her to look at the video, her dog went exactly where she pointed. (But i’m supposed to be professional and focus on my judging haha)
> We humans need the practice as much as the dogs
I haven’t run agility in nearly a year. I pretty much retired Weedith about this time last year. And even before then I wasn’t really doing enough agility, too much judging. I feel like i never got back into the groove since COVID lockdown!I’m going to stand hard and say no to judging appointments in 2027. (She says with 2 appointments already bahahaha).
> So using that super clear release and the moving target reward
Yes… He is getting better with the dropped toy at home, but I keep forgetting i’m at club and everything is harder.And lastly, accordion…um… Something’s up with my second distance haha. (there were 2 extra reps where he broke, but he won’t be doing any jumping for a while)
Smiley threadles. poor boy hasn’t seen a tunnel threadle probably for a year! After a little reminder he figured it out, but due to a combination of my lousy timing on marking, i think i accidentally reinforced flick away from me, go into tunnel, turn around and come out of tunnel. hehe. He got the flick away really well but didn’t quite tie it to going through the tunnel, so after he turned away from me i added the tunnel cue, probably there was a better thing to do in this scenario, but he did have beautiful head flicks.
THis was my second go at lateral leadouts. They were ok in the back yard, but pretty average at club. Waiting was hard for the boy, and I was probably a bit more sideways than my yard gives room for. I tried rewarding in position, but it was hard so I stopped. (I have cut out a lot of my tugging, so whereever there’s a cut you can assume we’re tugging)
Thanks for all your fabulous feedback. Every now and again it comes together and I feel like i might one day be a decent handler haha. It’s hard, the picture in my head doesn’t translate to my body haha.
I love your portmanteau word, lurely. That helped he he
Here we are working on the back side slice. I don’t think he’s heard this cue in months so i started close to the wing.This was a terrible session. My mechanics were terrible and i didn’t always reward the baby for my nonsense.
But this is why you’re here… to make me better.
Oh yeah no idea why i kept drifting into an rc behind him when i wanted him to go straight.
Also!! Happy Getting Older day! Love your tee shirt.
Here we are doing some rear crosses at club. I had some lovely focus from the baby and some great work. I did right turns first cos they’re easier for bebe then some left turns
