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Also watch this dumb baby adolescent start retrieving!!!!
We’d had a few reps before I turned the camera on. We had so much success i thought I’d video so you can see it too!!!
Super duper happy with this session. Baby Barry coped with some new ideas with a toy on a stool. I played round with where reinforcement came from. Once he locked in the toy on the stool want an issue… the first rep he thought about it. Even when I reinforced from the stool he was able to lock back in. I worked so hard on the body language, he managed to read my body language mostly. Ha ha.
And because it was there, we did some tunnel work. You can probably watch this on double speed – haha – not a lot happens for most of it. (First rep is about 55s in (LOLZ to that bloke in the background, i didn’t seem him on the day, but barry obvs did and he did a couple of barks and was generally a bit worried about him). I did lots of playing around and running away from him, cos i was feeling silly, at one point i was racing him to the toy, went to bend down, remembered what happened last time… hesitated… and barry won the toy haha. He did some quite tricky entries at the end. (I cut out a couple of bit where I gave him a little break and had a chat to my friend).
Parallel path once his buddy had gone away. This was the last thing we did and he was so much more focused. Really proud of him.
PHew ! We went down to club yesterday for the first time in ages. And Baby Barry’s focus skills took quite some time to warm up!
So I started with trying to do some parallel path, but his BorderPap buddy that he loves to wrestle with was doing some training (a good 30-40m away – and we could not have any kind of failure or we bailed). So you can fast forward through the first 45 s of the video to see that an attempt was made haha, then I moved about >100m away, with no visual distraction but he could hear other dogs (and mine) and there were kids playing sports behind the building behind me in the video – you can skip ahead to about the 2 min mark because I cannot get him to focus, he can’t even tug! Eventually, We do get some good flow on the running contact mat. At the end, I just start start throwing the toy “winner winner chicken dinner”, letting him have a romp, then asking if we wanted a lolly, He eventually started bringing the toy straight back… so It’s not a perfect retrieve behaviour but it’s a place to start (i cut out most of the retrieve reps cos you don’t need to see that, and half of them were off camera.)
> He is such a fun partner that hopefully it felt great to get outside and play with him
He is. He’s such a super buddy. He’s fun to train.
Then to close, we did some baby running contacts with arousal. At the end i even popped his toy on the step to see if he could do it, he stuttered heading towards the toy then recovered. Awesome baby!
Then we did some parallel path over a “jump”. I do not remember doing this exercise the first time round… and baby Barry was certainly asking some questions at the start of the session. I think he got the hang by the end of the session.
Dug deep and found some motivation. Started out this session with some SSC. I did the set up as you suggested and we had much more success.
The physio gave barry the once over and he’s fine – but she doesn’t think he’s quite finished growing!! yikes! Time to put bricks on his shoulders haha – i don’t want him measuring into the border collie height group.
I’m pretty pleased with this. I even withheld a reward to get all four feets on the target. (This was after the suboptimal SSC session).
Soooo… I typed up a whole thing about the week I’ve had – the week was suboptimal. But I lost what I typed … so here’s the barry focussed bit. Which was yesterday’s attempt at ssc. I was away on the weekend and we did some ssc at all the places I went and he did great in unfamiliar places, I even added a neutral distraction (shoe) while I was camping on Sunday night. I thought maybe I could up the distraction in the familiar location of the backyard (narrator voice; she could not in fact up the distraction level). I cut out a bit where I go to try and find a neutral distraction.
Backwards and sideways sends. I’m not sure what twizzled his teenage brain. Before this session I’d done some “bang game” on the end of the slightly raised seesaw plank – not much movement, but enough for him to move the plank, and he was nervous at first then was nailing it (food reward only).
Then we did the running contact bit you see (i did a ~1min before turning the camera on).
Then i turned on the camera for this session and he checked out, I thought about getting the tug toy out but didn’t want to nag him, i did a couple of hand targets for food but he was like, meh. so waited til he opted-in to training. He gave a very wobbly first rep so i gave a low value reward – then you see we quickly gain confidence and nail it. (I included the sniffy stage in the video at 2x speed, you can skip to 33s if you don’t want to see it then at 33 s you see him opt in beautifully. 🙂
Here we are doing a target for a running contact – i’ve already done the big contact (back in the last Maxpup course). So i brought in the official running contact mat. Some good work. I think next time i do it, I’ll raise the mat a little with piece of memory foam, that way he can feel the difference better between off and on.
