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Woohoo went down to club and did some training. Lots of firsts, first time being asked to wrap a wing, first time using my new directionals outside of the lounge, first time trying three things in a row!
There was also a lot of noisy barking and others training and he did so well! I had one bail out when someone came to stand next to my tripod but I got him back.
First session: using directionals on a wing wrap, adding distance then adding tunnel.
Second session: smiley face
>> caught in the pool of scent from the treat
Definitely, I saw the head snap on the video which I didn’t see in the moment.The physio checked him and yeah he had some tight spots, most likely caused by a certain heffalump brother with emotional regulation issues humping him! And he was a little tighter on one side, which made sense for his difficulty bending on the cookie stretch.
Here’s us doing Set point. but mostly we’re just working on the stay. Just before the rep at 1.30 he was very distracted, but he did it and i had a major party – which helped him lock in for the last couple of reps!
hello here I am trying verbals. Ts-ts is Towards my more Tattooed arm. (I apologise for the noises from the cheap seats, Frank is in a crate right next to the camera!)
We did a bit of the set point game before this… and it was mostly working on stays, while trying to back chain — so something to keep working on.
So here’s us feeling the wind in our curly bonnet! About 1.54 i start to work out my mechanics. I cut out a few victory laps, and my partner coming up to say goodbye – i wondered why barry was being weird! I left in the bit where barry clonked his noggin on the handle of the bin, and i paid him to come close to it again – because it’s such a loud clonk! I eventually remembered to say go-go-go intermittently – I really need a whiteboard and to write up what i’m going to SAY.
>> What a gorgeous location! I feel like we all need to take a field trip to visit you LOL!!
So lucky to get to use this lovely race course for a dog show! And the weather was just lovely autumn, cool nights, warm sunny days.>> verbals will be easier because you will be able to plan them and not have to pull them out in the moment while running.
Yeah course walking will be easier, cos that’s planned, It’s just training, every time i’m doing a wrap I’ll have to consciously plan which cue to use, might need to tattoo the cues onto my hands hahaha. I’ll do the pregame and start out trying to use them, i can default to my original plan later.
(I did write cues on my hands once when i was running someone else’s dog which had directionals) bahahaAlso I heard what you said about the toy, I have a bigger toy.. this is what I had to hand while away
Thanks for the reminders about the stays! Very good advice.
I did have beef and cheese treats in the MM! They are really spendy food! I used to make treats using a special silicon mold that were just the right size to not jam the mM. I meant to make some more of those, see if he’d like them.We went away to a scentwork show (Frank qualified in 3 out of 4 searches and only missed 1 odour out of 11 – and that one was 1.2m high and he couldn’t be bothered pinpointing it haha)
So here we are at Awapuni Racecourse – I decided to do something the was familiar with in the unfamiliar place. When my handling wasn’t shit, he was great! Love this dog. I did some other stay stuff and even some foot targeting but didn’t video.
I tried the threadle again… to mixed success. The first failure rep, I was moving. Other than that I wonder if the contour of the hill is having an effect? I tried from the other side of the hurdle (Barry set up on the downhill side instead of the up hill side, and the only failure was breaking his stay cos he was tired. We’re off pto a scentwork show this weekend so will try to get some babby Barry training done in a new environment!
I got pretty good at not moving my feet… my shoulders on the other hand…..but despite being a poodle, He’s not quite as foodie as most of them so the MM is not quite so irresistible.
I was keep turning towards it.
Wooo it’s finally stopped raining for 5 mins!! It’s been “state-of-emergency, cars winding up on top of 1.2m high fences” raining here for the last couple of days. Not right in my suburb, but close enough! My backyard was not very squelchy all things considered! One of the bonuses of living on top of a hill! I cut out the bit where I needed to fix the MM. The cookies are just a little too small. Before i turned the video on i did some leg weaves and cookie stretches (to start building the routine). Interestingly he was less keen to turn right… we have a physio appointment to see if I’m just being dramatic! ahah
Hahah love the video! A timeless classic.
Hey I see Maxpup2 is opening soon, I know we haven’t made it all the way through this (but we have done maxpup1 before). And I’m feeling a bit more confident… do you think we’ll be ok in Maxpup2?
LizWhere has the week gone? I was away judging on the weekend [sadly without the dogs] (I’ve included a shot of my amazing judging gift in the video, I don’t know about in the US but judges here pretty much just get their travel expenses covered (ish) and anything else is a bonus).
Here we are working on “Pivot!” (Insert obligatory gif of Ross from Friends). At about 1.25 he starts pivoting.
Thought I’d try the serp slice in the back yard to see what I get. It then morphed into a session building value for the wait. I think we did ok
Argh. It’s been a week.
Here’s us working on threadle wrap flatwork. The hard part was keeping him from leaping! (I cut out the bits where I reloaded with treats and where I stopped and thought about my mechanics to keep him low.
