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Oh hey i’m guessing online feedback finishes soon. Just wanted to say. Thank you for all the support on this journey and look forward to seeing you next year!
I revisited threadle slice handling for the first time in ages and it went nicely, i tried the toy on the floor – the long toy didn’t really thrill him to drive for, but the crinkly-squeaky-Temu toy oooo that was a big question! Thankfully I just ordered 3 off Temu for less than USD$20.
Baby’s first backside slice. Thank you for the towel tip, worked great (sorry that you usually need to tell me things twice, but they eventually sink in haha). As far as i can tell, every time he “failed” to wrap was because i was in the wrong position or wasn’t connected.
I cut out the bits where I moved the gear, I let Barry “win” the toy when I did this. I’m so pleased with how his victory laps have reduced so quickly!
It was a really warm day so I trained in the shade, hope you can see ok.
> His tail does look longer than his whole body here LOL!
It’s my first undocked poodle and I love his giant tail!Minnie Pinny. I had two toys i didn’t think I was doing remote reinforcement because I had the treats on me, but the learner determines the reinforcement and he let me know that toys are his preferred reinforcement.
We also did some work with toy swapping and letting him win. I have ordered some more of the very expensive toy that is his favourite …. so expensive… Temu for the win. Hahah
OMG… I set the video to wider screen for the smaller space and Baby Barry looks insanely long in the body. haha He’s also really bum high… hope those front legs catch up haha.
This was for his dinner (a couple of hours after the last session) and after we’d done a nice gentle walk, we did a couple of kms but took our time.
I eventually got my mechanics sorted. He definitely found one direction easier than the other, it was the direction I did second – but that wasn’t on purpose. I think that means anticlockwise is his stronger direction … as previously noted i find the whole left and right thing very mysteriousHere we are doing rocking horse for the first time. He’d also never seen the green pop up bin… and was not expecting it to collapse under him!! But he recovered.
I have (badly) clipped his face and body to help with the heat, he was feeling it today. And we had a play in a paddling pool to get him used to that, he was pretty confident about it and wanted to bite the water coming out of the hose. hahaOoo thank you. I tried the two toy retrieve in the back yard but the toys weren’t similar enough and I think too much space.
Unfortunately my only other dog with a retrieve/play drive is Frank… so yeah, social learning is out, I absolutely do not trust that lunatic. His behaviour is getting more unpredictable, even with a metric tonne of gabapentin on board.
I’ll see if I can get Barry to watch other people’s dogs haha.
Baby retrieves.
Oh my we have feelings about toys! After the first rep he took off with the toy so I cut out the bit where I put a barrier up. I let him “win” the toy after tugging. At the end of the session i let him have the toy and he took it outside. But because Frank is a psychopath with toys (and this is a fancy toy) i couldn’t leave it with him so went and got some treats. He came in away from the toy, I did a food scatter and collected the toy.
Youtube has decided that this is a “short”. I did a couple of reps then realised i needed to video, but my tripod was in the car, so got my partner to film (which is why i look shorter hahah).
I tried your other rear cross exercise in the backyard earlier, but I think i need to build more value for the foot target, and about 17 other things, which is why I know food is not entirely relevant to Barry’s interests when victory laps are an option!
>>> I bet the food reward will help him bring it right back 😀
I have news for you. hahah Tried it tonight… I need to watch your retrieve videos and work on that a bit harder!
>> It was a little unclear as to what the exact marker was
I’m saying “payday” as my marker cue (but haven’t got the ear buds wired for sound), then ‘wow’ ing. Probably the “wow” is overpowering the payday, so I’ll try to make that cue bigger.>> He didn’t seem stressed at all,
I’m so sensitized to Franken-feelings, it was quite revealing to me how happy Bazza was with this exercise.>> It also looks like it was hot – bearing in mind that this is his first summer of life, it might take him a bit to acclimate to the heat.
It wasn’t that hot, less than 20 celcius (65f), but I’ve noticed he seems quite sensitive to the heat, seeking out shadows. Goals for this summer is getting him keen on a paddling pool. (I will try to groom him this weekend to get rid of some coat!)
>> The facility looks fenced wo i don’t think he is going anywhere 🙂
It isn’t really fenced… and i didn’t want him joining the “big dogs” but I will be much more careful about using the leash to stop him, emergency only!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,
