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Here i am trying to beat baby Barry to the toy. You will see at the end why I’m currently sitting on the couch icing my knee. Hahaha
I forgot to tell you how many runs in fly. In a competition, it’s a knock out so the dog might have to do the course multiple times against different dogs, depending how many dogs are entered, and if it wins..i dont know if there’s a maximum number of entries. This was “link”, they do 3 runs and submit their fastest time. Link is a fun thing we do. Every club in the country sets up the same course (agility, fly and hoopers), we submit our results and the best get ribbons at the end of the year.
Hellooo Yes I do have more pods, I was thinking of starting with boxes front and back (not sure i’ve done much targeting with all 4 feet) then add the pods at the back.
The pods are from flexiness – i love their stuff, nice and stable. I have the pods, twindisc and sensimat. I did a quick check and it looks like Cleanrun has all the flexiness gear. (I figured there had to be a US distributer if there’s a distributer in lil old NZ)
Haha yeah I thought you’d laugh at Tank going “yeah, nah” to the weaves.
The box is definitely 😬
It fascinates me how some dogs do much better in flygility than normal agility…possibly because reinforcement is clearer and the handler is out of the picture haha.
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I was super duper proud of baby Barry… especially considering how much he loves other people and other dogs. Which is a new training challenge for me. hahaBaby Barry did his first scent work class tonight. He did so good. Super happy and confident in a strange environment. Switched between toy and treats.
But before we went to class we did a tiny piece of shaping. I went into this session just seeing what I’d get. This is his first time doing the “pods”, so i was happy with his thoughtful foot placement. Then I stepped it up to get one foot on each and he delivered!
(YouTube turned this into a short sorry)
Here’s us doing a tunnel. (I know this isn’t this week’s games but … the tunnel was there). Flygility was also there. He coped with people moving around behind him but not dogs running fly.
(As they were doing flygility right there I thought you might be interested to see some flygility. Apparently a straight course is very unusual, a recent top level course had two (2) x 6 pole weaves with extreme entries and exits… which is too much weaving if you ask me!)
I wasn’t what would work for him. Probably the weekly would work better. I have done a lot of the earlier games but never got to the advanced step for most of them. But there’s definitely heaps of games later where we didn’t even do once, because work is very dumb and stressful.
Here we are doing shaping in arousal. he’s seen the suit case before (it was a long time ago)… and never in the backyard. I’m pretty pleased I kept this to ~2m despite me forgetting my timer haha.
> break out the tug toy more frequently
I struggle with this so much! Previous dogs have trained me too much! Edith would work for all the cookies, toys were meh! And frank would get over aroused by the toy and stop thinking!
I keep forgetting about Barry’s love of toys and ability to switch from food to toy and back. He truly is a magic baby. Thanks for the reminder.wrapping a pool noodle. He worked through the neighbour dog barking behind him! I got some very nice training loops going (been a while since I felt that), then I kicked the baby (just a little) and it went a bit sideways haha.
During the break I did some work on his two-bowl/movement puzzle game and got him going out round 2 cones nicely, then added a sensimat between the cones and blew his mind! Eww texture said the dumb baby hehe!
Ah yes… Once you said it about what “winner” looked like to you, i realised I wasn’t REALLY using it to mean have a party. So I tried to make sure not to nag him today, but the words weren’t working because my brain got broken thinking about cues, cos I listened to a podcast with Shade Whitesel. I know i need some clearer cues for toys, but I need to think them through, i don’t know what I “need” but I also know my brain can’t cope with too many verbal cues. So far I’m thinking
* play tug with me “tuggy”
* get it (send to dead toy)
* winner winner (he can take laps)here’s us doing focus forward https://youtu.be/H9uxaUVo380
I use “look” while i’m holding him to mark the looking forward.
I say “get it” each time, except the last rep, where I say “go Go”, like in your video.
(I left in the bit when the little gobshite stole a toy, but cut out the bit where I’m trying to get my watch timer set up, and left in the bit at the end where he stole a toy again haha)Helloo…thankfully we had a long weekend cos I had our club’s show this weekend, I’m knackered. I got to judge people though, and use my evil cackle. (Unfortunately got sunburnt because the wind was so cold I never noticed the sun- sobs)
It’s fun to get to some of the “advanced” stage of games. Here we are playing with the prop game.
Then I work on some two toy play to stop keep away games, I took your advice about putting a cue on him getting to win the toy- “winner winner chicken dinner”, I still don’t think i’m doing this right.(can you believe how big he’s gotten!? I looked at an old video of us doing stuff Maxpup stuff and he was so smol.)
During the break we worked on some “tricks”, so I now have a half-dozen, half-trained tricks hehe. But I was super proud toda when I let him off the lead, I got a nose touch, a sit, and a spin, then gave him a treat, then he didn’t run off until i cued “off you go” — super proud of that.
