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Sit and down (Learned that I haven’t done any/enough down to sits)
putting front paws on a thing (nailed it!) started adding a cue
putting front paws on my arm… never tried that before and…it’ll take more work. (mostly I get one leg, resting on my arm like he’s a barfly hehe)
shake paws – another new trick, we’re starting with a foot target to some cardboard on a stick.
middle (I have been working on this but we solidified it)
Leg weaves (I can mostly drop the lure and my leg position is the cue)
Bow— He has enough tricks for his novice trick dog title. 🙂 Somehow he did some nice loose leash walking despite me never really working on it hahahah.
Oh yeah and the dog he was next to… was an in season German Shepherd bitch!! So he not only coped around strange dogs, strange people, in a new space, but also around sexxxxxy smells. (he’s 9.5 months old and still entire so probably old enough for it to create some confusing feelings for him! (Just think of the oodle monstrosities hahaha)
Super proud of baby Barry. He did a trick training seminar today. His first time working in a class environment. He did super stuff. We moved some behaviours into more solid tricks, we started teaching entirely new behaviours. It was 2 hours and we rode the arousal curve over that time haha.
Here we are doing the thing with the prop. He’s much more confident than the first time round so I’m really happy.
It was stinking hot (cicadas ate in full chirp) and I need to give him another groom.
HI! Been a while. I’ve done a little training but haven’t videoed. it’s been a tough couple of weeks.
I do have a question about “look”. he gets the idea to look away from me and look at the “thing”. I’ve been using it in scent work to get him to focus forward on the “start line” before cueing to start sniffing – and he absolutely locks onto the containers (or whatever there is). But I’m still holding his collar, I suspect if i let go, he’d drive away from me rather than wait for a “do the thing” cue.
Will we be layering that control into the training in maxpup 2 or am I doing something wrong?Took a little sneak peek ahead on next week’s games and did some send and go. He’s definitely getting the exercise much more than the first time around. My focus was more on toy management (after the first unauthorised victory lap) and trying to get it back. Haha
(He had sniffy training last night and I’m starting to get some nice freeze indications on odour today. Such a good boy.)
Noise!!! And movement
Baby Barry loved this wobble board when he was younger but I freaked him out by having it on the concrete. It’s never made a noise before! And it’d been a while since we’d played with it too. After he’s worried I added a yoga mat underneath to stop the noise, once he was happy again, I moved one corner off the yoga mat to make a noise. I think we have a bit of work to do!This is from Friday. I was really pleased cos he managed to figure out how to get all 4 paws on a narrow plank and he seems to be getting the hang of “break”.
Yeah. I was surprised I got an appointment that fast haha (also it wasn’t my good physio as she’s blown her cruciate). Seeing a g.p. is much harder. At least I don’t have to pay for it as its covered by ACC (Accident Compensation Corporation) (a sort of government insurance scheme so people can’t sure others if there’s an accident).
I struggle with the balance between letting him have his victory lap, and being worried if I ask for the toy too soon and he blows me off that I’m reinforcing him blowing me off.
The knee was not better this morning… went to the physio, thankfully nothing’s torn but it would seem my patella has a slight tracking issue, and everything went in the wrong direction. Physio reckons i should be feeling better after a week. I currently have a crutch. (I don’t need crate rest but I’m only allowed “on leash” walks) haha.
I haven’t run fly in over 10 years so not sure about the format. But i do think it suffers from the kiwi desire to make everything more difficult.
Link is awesome. I love it as a bridging activity to competition, because you run a full course, with timers and a judge but it isn’t in a full show environment.
Here i am trying to beat baby Barry to the toy. You will see at the end why I’m currently sitting on the couch icing my knee. Hahaha
I forgot to tell you how many runs in fly. In a competition, it’s a knock out so the dog might have to do the course multiple times against different dogs, depending how many dogs are entered, and if it wins..i dont know if there’s a maximum number of entries. This was “link”, they do 3 runs and submit their fastest time. Link is a fun thing we do. Every club in the country sets up the same course (agility, fly and hoopers), we submit our results and the best get ribbons at the end of the year.
