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Session 2, (after going back in the van while I trained Edith). The other person training had left by now, it was just me and the kid on the playground. Barry certainly recognised the barrel. We did some focusing for the first 1.10.
After the first rep, I set my watch timer and barry briefly bailed (i cut it out because he was out of shot) but he came back and I was blown away with what he did.
This is the first time I’ve ever actually felt some real flow with some handling. I could not get over how good it felt (it felt a lot more balletic than it looks on video haha).
Session 1.5….
After retrieving my puppy, I spoke to the other person and she went for a short walk while we played with tunnel. There were some people walking their dog that got Barry’s attention.And he took time to focus, 1.56 is when I take his leash off. We do 4 reps of the tunnel, trying to differentiate between straight exits and wrap exits…
His coming back with the toy was a little laggy. (I cut out his out-of-shot shenanigans)
Thank you for all the reminders.!! I made a real effort today on keeping sessions short. And introduced a few warm up routine things.
Barry was extra spicy because i trained Edith first and he had to wait.
First session:
First 2.20 pattern game and other warm up things. I stupidly tried cookie stretches which he’s never done before, blew his mind so did some more pattern. Then I tried doing the walking past the jump, I remembered eventually that I’m supposed to just keep walking, and my timing on the “find it” got better eventually. Then the only other person training down there asked me a question…
I was lying awake thinking about these training sessions. And I realised I need to do some nice backwards and forwards pattern games BEFORE I train in hard environments.
I also thought that o need to start my “warm-up” sequence, making that part of the training routine. (Not that barry has all the warm-up tricks yet but should start now)Went down to club when No-one was down there. Did two sessions, i trained Edie in between cos we’re trying to get better at hoopers… it’s going slowly. The barking you can hear is Edith screaming, “möther, i demand the treats.”
Baby Barry is definitely struggling more than he did before he got hit with adolescence stick.
First session:
I cut out a moment of zoomies that he had.> I am stomping my feet now: I wanna go to the beach in NZ!!! I am very jealous
heheheh… part of evil plan to get you to visit again. haha> his arousal was definitely higher
Oh yes was in a different place entirely from where we normally are. I need to get him out working in a few more places. His arousal at club has also gone up, probably cos we haven’t been down very much lately (just the last session i posted at club and the seminar). We’ve got a long weekend for Easter so will try to get out and about rather than rotting on the couch with the PlayStation.> then smacking you with his foot
He give such great feedback when I’m not being clear haha. Love him. He’s such fun boy.Took baby baz to the beach yesterday for a walk by himself. He did great we played with toys, with him happily retrieving and chatting the next toy, we did LOEO, we did some stays. He ran through the surf and chased some birbs.
Today I had so much stinky work we managed to do some shipile. He’s much more careful than my other two. I think they have more value for targeting all the things with their feet so felt more confident flinging themselves over things. Frank switched into his crazy dog head space (i didn’t tug with him, just working for treats was enough to shift him to the wrong end of the arousal curve.) You can hear Frank’s sad little cries and my partner doing online gaming.
And I did a little back up. My timing wasn’t as rubbish as I thought in the session… my treat flinging could use some work.
Seminar update
Baby Barry was in a class with dogs 13 months and older, 2 of whom were borderpaps. There was sequencing! We did not sequence… oh we did a barrel wrap to a tunnel. (Adding my motion to tunnels is gonna be a challenge).
We had some whites of eyes, which I’ve never had before. But we did some pattern games and brought him down again.
Super proud of his commitment to a barrel, with a bit of distance and a bit of motion.
A good experience for working in a distracting space with mama being weird cos there was an instructor.
(Comparison did not steal my joy, baby Barry was called a naughty poodle…. he not naughty…he just full of the joy of life).He could do retrieves at club away from gear but struggled on the session. But that’ll come.
Me and Baz have a seminar this weekend. Eep. instructor is a top nz handler and we’re in a group with someone who has made up a supreme champ and who is sequencing with their slightly older pup. Eeeep.
I keep telling myself that comparison is the thief of joy and barry isn’t a borderpap. And i have a full-time job, unlike the other handler. But you know how it is, my brain is dumb.
It is at club so a familiar environment and I’ll go down nice and early and do all the things you suggested from the videos with high arousal. Thank you for the reminders about pattern games.
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.)
