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>> What a gorgeous location! I feel like we all need to take a field trip to visit you LOL!!
So lucky to get to use this lovely race course for a dog show! And the weather was just lovely autumn, cool nights, warm sunny days.>> verbals will be easier because you will be able to plan them and not have to pull them out in the moment while running.
Yeah course walking will be easier, cos that’s planned, It’s just training, every time i’m doing a wrap I’ll have to consciously plan which cue to use, might need to tattoo the cues onto my hands hahaha. I’ll do the pregame and start out trying to use them, i can default to my original plan later.
(I did write cues on my hands once when i was running someone else’s dog which had directionals) bahahaAlso I heard what you said about the toy, I have a bigger toy.. this is what I had to hand while away
Thanks for the reminders about the stays! Very good advice.
I did have beef and cheese treats in the MM! They are really spendy food! I used to make treats using a special silicon mold that were just the right size to not jam the mM. I meant to make some more of those, see if he’d like them.We went away to a scentwork show (Frank qualified in 3 out of 4 searches and only missed 1 odour out of 11 – and that one was 1.2m high and he couldn’t be bothered pinpointing it haha)
So here we are at Awapuni Racecourse – I decided to do something the was familiar with in the unfamiliar place. When my handling wasn’t shit, he was great! Love this dog. I did some other stay stuff and even some foot targeting but didn’t video.
I tried the threadle again… to mixed success. The first failure rep, I was moving. Other than that I wonder if the contour of the hill is having an effect? I tried from the other side of the hurdle (Barry set up on the downhill side instead of the up hill side, and the only failure was breaking his stay cos he was tired. We’re off pto a scentwork show this weekend so will try to get some babby Barry training done in a new environment!
I got pretty good at not moving my feet… my shoulders on the other hand…..but despite being a poodle, He’s not quite as foodie as most of them so the MM is not quite so irresistible.
I was keep turning towards it.
Wooo it’s finally stopped raining for 5 mins!! It’s been “state-of-emergency, cars winding up on top of 1.2m high fences” raining here for the last couple of days. Not right in my suburb, but close enough! My backyard was not very squelchy all things considered! One of the bonuses of living on top of a hill! I cut out the bit where I needed to fix the MM. The cookies are just a little too small. Before i turned the video on i did some leg weaves and cookie stretches (to start building the routine). Interestingly he was less keen to turn right… we have a physio appointment to see if I’m just being dramatic! ahah
Hahah love the video! A timeless classic.
Hey I see Maxpup2 is opening soon, I know we haven’t made it all the way through this (but we have done maxpup1 before). And I’m feeling a bit more confident… do you think we’ll be ok in Maxpup2?
LizWhere has the week gone? I was away judging on the weekend [sadly without the dogs] (I’ve included a shot of my amazing judging gift in the video, I don’t know about in the US but judges here pretty much just get their travel expenses covered (ish) and anything else is a bonus).
Here we are working on “Pivot!” (Insert obligatory gif of Ross from Friends). At about 1.25 he starts pivoting.
Thought I’d try the serp slice in the back yard to see what I get. It then morphed into a session building value for the wait. I think we did ok
Argh. It’s been a week.
Here’s us working on threadle wrap flatwork. The hard part was keeping him from leaping! (I cut out the bits where I reloaded with treats and where I stopped and thought about my mechanics to keep him low.
> You should put that bouncing up on cue as a trick
I’m just pleased he doesn’t jump up and grab my clothes. All my dog training tops have holes in the back because Edith, jumps up to grab it… I only buy judging clothes from charity stores because they all get holes in them hahah.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)
