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> 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.
I have a few minutes of me trying to do the rear cross thing on holiday but I have up because I was too shot and the environment was a lot. So here’s us doing some plankrobics on a handy bench. There was a howling southerly but I got in a truly lovely walk but didn’t get to eat all my snacks because I had a gall bladder attack!!
Bloody hell you make this rear cross look easy!! I’ve been practicing inside and while we were away, my mechanics are still shit. But I do manage to rhyme armpit and shit when singing to the Baz.
Here we are working on that threadle/serp flatwork. He showed some remarkable self control with the toy on the floor. As I watched it back I realised I didn’t release him from the wait and for some reason I said hit it for my hand touch… I know all the reasons to use clear verbal markers and be consistent but I cannot make it happen!
I’m just gonna blame perimenopause. (I don’t know if you care about what I edit out, but out was going to get toys, a victory lap, a poop, and my neighbor trying to get my attention haha)Ah good. I shall continue to na-na. Hehe. It’s only two nights away but camping in my van with the dogs. So good times. I spent a small fortune on snacks. Hehe. I plan to eat poorly the whole time. Hehe
Whew! Haven’t done much! But I’ve got 3 days off and I’m going camping! hooray. So watch some videos so I can do some training while away. One question the send round a barrel. I use “nananana” which is my backside push cue, rather than “dig dig” which is my wrap jump cue. (Again everything towards me because I can’t keep left and right straight). My rationale for using na-na is it teaches take the “wing” then the bar, with the bar being added later. But should i be using my ‘take the bar and wrap the wing” cue – of dig dig.
(I had to buy a new “barrel” cos my one blew away in the storm, despite having a sand bag in it)
