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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.
The Baby has been a little bit off his food too, so I think the travel took a bit out of him. (We were also in the car rather than my usual van because my van was at the van doctor’s) haha Just because she’s over 20 years old, she wanted new wheel bearings!! So rude.
You should be able to see the course now. 🙂 I thought I set all the right settings, but no! haha
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pa6QZxB0TyDypdnK1SVVdBJQm-5XJDNM/view?usp=sharing
This was so much fun to judge, a lot of people DQed early on so tried all sorts of stuff with the layering challenge, some people managed to layer the weave as well as the dogwalk.
And just to prove that we have been working on our wait and our self control: https://youtu.be/85mkv5OKxxc?si=CSL_rtcDkDAqC-zm
(I did a bit of this at the show too. So working it in harder environments – I am very much throwing his slightly less favoured toy and luring him back with his favourite).Hello! It has once again been a busy week! I was away judging at the weekend. (My WAO-inspired senior course had many people talking lol)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pa6QZxB0TyDypdnK1SVVdBJQm-5XJDNM/view?usp=sharingBarry had his very first motel experience. He did some nice work at the show, I didn’t get video, and we’ve been working on our waits. On Monday, He had his first physio session (just a tight hammie, but he took the laser and massage like a champ!), The Physio reckoned there’s still a bit of growth left in those legs! We drove 3 hours home after that (stopping for a walk). Yesterday (Tuesday my time) I tried some things in the backyard but he was flat, I was flat, it was humid and gross.
So today is a little cooler and there’s a nice “fresh” wind to stop the humidity.
Here we are trying different ways to cue going round the thing. At 1.38 his sister kicks off in the house, and it’s not her normal bark, but it sends baby barry into a sniffing spiral. He also has a little check out when there’s a big gust. On the weekend he worked beautifully with Edith screaming blue murder from her crate while I was working him at the show.
thank you for all your wonderful sage advice on the last video. I am a firm believer in the 2 mistake rule, but it appears that i cannot count. I was having a very negative nancy day because it had been a hard week, and I had a bad night’s sleep due to all the adult beverages, and other things too numerous to enumerate.
(I had braces, I would never wish those on a dog)
I hope UKI is going/went ok. I’m always available to help course build/ring crew…. just the minor matter of distance, and I’m not sure I’d be allowed through your border as an official Union delegate. haha
Here’s video of today. I apologise, put your sunnies on before viewing… the legs are out again.
I went down to club so revisited something familiar, tunnels! But with DISTRACTIONS! There was a weird guy on the playground directly behind the camera (unplanned distraction), people training (to the left of the view) and a busy road (to the right).This tunnel is longer, about 2-3m to the 1m at home and is grippy (new texture). We managed to move the skill on too, even with all the distractions, we managed to reduce the lure.
I cut out about 10 seconds of me negotiating the return of a toy off camera, but honestly he’s pretty good.
