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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.)
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.
