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Here we are doing mini pinny. With mixed success. He keeps getting stuck on ‘over’ (left). Part way through I remembered you told me to repeat the verbal, so you’ll see i eventually started doing that.
He didn’t like doing the middle, I think i need to work on him driving forward out of the middle position. haha
Down at club doing find the jump. I cut out his one victory lap (he’s getting so good).
I did three separate sessions, with breaks in between but have stitched the videos together. He did super well on my left, but we struggled on the right, when i watched the video i see I wasn’t as connected as I thought I was.
My body turns in one direction much more easily than the other, so that might have had something to do with it.Here I am doing the serp game (Friday night but got distracted and forgot to post it). It’s obviously been a while cos Baby Barry didn’t know what to do with the jump. The nextdoor neighbour dog was not helping! I cut out the bit where he went and barked at the fence, but i got him back. Ah well, we can call it distraction training.
> Question about the verbals: is ‘over’ left turns and ‘swing’ right turns? Lots of folks use swing to mean turning away so I wanted to be sure I knew what his were.
Yes…that’s the plan. Over (with a weird N. American accent for some reason) has always been my soft turn cue. I was going to use “swing” as the soft turn cue away, so re-deployed for right. (My mnemonic is that each cue has the same number of letters as the words left and right)
Hello@! Work from home day so train the baby Barry day.
At 1.30 I knew i had to change position but forgot which way to go so made it way too hard… I had literally just watched the video but, you know, perimenopause brain! Then remembered.
> talking or putting the toy down were a little confusing to him unless you were repeating the wait cue
“Taylor Swift lyrics” haha. 😉 *Honestly that’s my anthem. I strongly identify with a meme i saw, “you don’t know how much time and money i have put in to be this bad at dog agility” (Video of person tripping over their dog).Oh i thought i’d posted this but I didn’t. I did a second discrimination session on saturday and we definitely did better than the first time.
> This is a pillbug:
Oh we call them slaters. (Pron: Slay-ters) I haven’t known them to roll up before but they’re the same lil lobster guys – according to the internet. (THey’re Introduced and not native), i’ll have to see if i can get one to roll up next time i shake it out of my tunnel hahah)
Weta are a different beastie altogether, the females will bite! (Same sister)Hope you’ve had a great weekend!! I managed to sneak a wee session of set point and the wait is coming along!
In answer to your question, no I don’t think we do have pill bugs! We do have weta…. which are huge and aren’t cute.
I had your video of your beautiful blinds in my head … this was not that…. haha. At least this angle shows how slipped my training area is….I blame the slope at one point for all my late blinds. Hehe. This one time o didn’t feel the connection I did last time.
Argh… I know the keeping my arm back thing…I think about the keeping my arm back thing…. then every time….my body fails. I did once have a trainer who suggested i run with my hands in my back pockets… haha. Got a clear round running like that (a million years ago)
Tunnel directionals. I was pretty sure it was me being static that caused the problem with the wing wrap at the beginning… so i need to value build the wing more without motion? then I afflicted with a terrible case of the flappy arm.
I’m here! I’m there (in Maxpup 2), I’m everywhere! (Also you make soo much great content!)
Here we are working on the threadle wrap. I tried initially with the bin but barry kept clonking his head on the handle, so tried with pop up bin, but that was too big for me to work out my mechanics, so here we are with a wing, I’ve got the wing turned to make it super easy for him to have success with turning away from me. And i paid a lot for just standing between me and the wing, cos he found that scary. (when i find the time, i will do some two bowl game with him going through some narrow spaces. 🙂 )
