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Baby retrieves.
Oh my we have feelings about toys! After the first rep he took off with the toy so I cut out the bit where I put a barrier up. I let him “win” the toy after tugging. At the end of the session i let him have the toy and he took it outside. But because Frank is a psychopath with toys (and this is a fancy toy) i couldn’t leave it with him so went and got some treats. He came in away from the toy, I did a food scatter and collected the toy.
Youtube has decided that this is a “short”. I did a couple of reps then realised i needed to video, but my tripod was in the car, so got my partner to film (which is why i look shorter hahah).
I tried your other rear cross exercise in the backyard earlier, but I think i need to build more value for the foot target, and about 17 other things, which is why I know food is not entirely relevant to Barry’s interests when victory laps are an option!
>>> I bet the food reward will help him bring it right back 😀
I have news for you. hahah Tried it tonight… I need to watch your retrieve videos and work on that a bit harder!
>> It was a little unclear as to what the exact marker was
I’m saying “payday” as my marker cue (but haven’t got the ear buds wired for sound), then ‘wow’ ing. Probably the “wow” is overpowering the payday, so I’ll try to make that cue bigger.>> He didn’t seem stressed at all,
I’m so sensitized to Franken-feelings, it was quite revealing to me how happy Bazza was with this exercise.>> It also looks like it was hot – bearing in mind that this is his first summer of life, it might take him a bit to acclimate to the heat.
It wasn’t that hot, less than 20 celcius (65f), but I’ve noticed he seems quite sensitive to the heat, seeking out shadows. Goals for this summer is getting him keen on a paddling pool. (I will try to groom him this weekend to get rid of some coat!)
>> The facility looks fenced wo i don’t think he is going anywhere 🙂
It isn’t really fenced… and i didn’t want him joining the “big dogs” but I will be much more careful about using the leash to stop him, emergency only!After the above two sessions, i did some standing near people who were getting ready to train and just rewarded for turning his focus away from them and to me. (very hard for very social butterfly baby barry).
Then I did a tunnel, it was very hard distraction wise. The velcro noise of people taking tunnel bags off is very loud, it sounds like they were right on top of us, they’re about 10-15m away. On the second rep, he was making to dart round the tunnel, I stupidly reached out to him (should have just let him make the mistake), I think i accidentally bent barry’s tail – very slightly – he was very dramatic about it. Poor lad – just overwhelmed by everything i think, so I did some feeding, some playing, and patting, then one final rep, he struggled but he dug deep and did it. After this the whole pack went for a lovely long walk (probably about 4km, both on and off lead, over dale and down dell,
Remote reinforcement. I’m very pleased with how this went. And i realised that if this had been Frank, he would have got more and more stressed as this went on (lots more looking back at the reinforcement) but babby barry remained chill.
Blind decel go go go – You do make the mechanics of this look way easier than it is. Not helped by me not having my treat pouch (which is in the shop (again) getting a Brazilian Butt Lift – replacing the rear door that got smashed by someone who didn’t bother to stop!)
We have some work to do on bringing the toy back! Next time I’ll try it with a longer toy so i can catch him hehe.
I am going through all the games to see what ones we haven’t done. 🙂 Here’s us doing some backing up. I think this is the second session (i did a session on this back when it came out).
Had a bit of an issue with him not seeing the cookies. I really need to trim his bonnet I think. haha
> . You can show him the treat right before you toss it – that might help him find it so he doesn’t spend extra time looking for the treat in the grass
I TRY! Bahahaa. Sometimes he doesn’t follow it with his eyes, sometimes he gets distracted haha
I also think I probably need to trim his bonnet. hahaJust watched the minny pinny video and I have a question about turn cues. Context: I cannot tell my left from my right… at all, like i have to check which hand makes an L every time I need to distinguish left and right. With my last dog I tried to train Soft turn toward me as one cue and soft turn away from me as a separate cue, with some limited success, but the limited success I think had more to do with me only realising I needed the turn away quite a bit later and not really knowing what I was doing to teach it.
So to my question is, should I just use my soft turn towards me cue for all of the minny pinny, or should i introduce my cues towards/away cues with my relative positioning using the minny pinny (once he starts offering the grid?), or will there be another exercise for that kind of turn, it will most likely be a rear cross with a soft turn so maybe this isn’t the right set up for that.
Here we are trying to do lateral leadouts while the wait bit is good, the barrel bit obviously needs more work. Poor dumb baby. We had a couple of victory laps with the toy but came back nicely. He also worried about the next door neighbour dog barking. I cut out about 30 seconds where I accidentally gave him a treat that he truly had to masticate, dried tripe. He’s very unsure. Sorry it’s long.
I thought it was fun, and I did get some clear rounds – We’ll see how many more judging contracts I get though haha.
