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Plankrobics. You know on an intellectual level that sometimes dog just “get it” once they’ve had a break from something and come back to it, but it’s always amazing when it happens. Look at Babby Barry go on this!
plankrobics. I’ve done a few foot targetting things with Babby Barry but he’s not very confident. (He can jump up on things (like the bed) when he has a run up, but can’t bounce up from next to the bed – and he’s a poodle -sproinging is what they do!)
My plan is to do more Shpile-type stuff and mix it in with some Mari Valgma movement puzzles which are more structured than the shpile approach, but focused on proprioception. Two-pronged attack!Ah yes… I may have changed too many things all at once. I thought I’d done a lot more than I had! bless his babby heart.
Oooo adolescence is hitting. Here’s a video of 2 sessions. They’re in roughly the same spot at club (just different camera angles). The first session had dogs and people training and the second session was after everyone left (about 1 hour apart) He has previously coped with this amount of busy-ness but he was very distracted.
Hi – I hope I’m not posting too many videos and the length is ok. Please let me know if I’m going overboard! I think the threadle foundation is going well. he definitely focuses on the hand target when it goes down.
Tried the forward focus with a front cross and two toys. I hooked the video up to my headphones so the sound is less wind noise. Yay
Running contact first session! This video is a bit long – but you can probably watch it on double speed and not lose anything haha. I got to the running through the contact at the end. I think he did better with the box. There was one monster in the crate moment when i threw a treat too close to Frank’s crate but Babby bounced back
Rear cross with foot target. Once again the baby wins prizes and My mechanics do not. That lap turn is weird for my body, I’ve never taught a rear cross from the ground in this way. I have partially relied on the dog driving ahead (and hoping my timing was right) and when I have tried to teach it on the flat, the method was not like this at all! It was trying to be purely verbal.
We’ve got focus forward, we’ve got front crosses, we do not have a retrieve to hand. He’ll bring it back when we’re inside, but he has OPTIONS! when he’s outside. (Also i’m really over this windy, misty weather – everything is MOIST) The “lol” indicates a little poop break heheh. I should try to get the mic on my earbuds to pick up what I say – cos you can’t hear much in these two videos. haha
babby basics for rear crosses. He did some lovely work. I was also super happy with his sit stays – we’ve been working on these and he just kind of “got it” today, offering a sit with some duration. I didn’t cue it and wasn’t expecting it, but when he offered it, i used it.
The lap turn was hard for my mechanics ahahaha.
OMG it’s been a week! (and what a week – committee meetings, union stuff, insanely busy workload and miserable spring weather) But now we’re back! Looking at week 5’s exercises it looks like I need to value build the touch target and foot target more. But found some games to play where we’re at
Novel exciting – really pleased with how he reacted when i dropped the toy:
Hooray for daylight savings, we’ve got daylight at the end of day!! Doing forward focus with a bit more distance…no risk of me getting to the toy first. Haha I’m so slow.
The first rep he pulled out of my hand which is why I laughed.
There was one rep where he tried to pull out of my hand. I think that was more frustration at not being able to get to the toy than me holding his collar. But I did some value building for me holding his collar on our walk later.
