Session 1. Had to stay inside this morning. Heavy frost made the ice and the not so icy patches too slick to be outside. Started with Exercise 8 again and got stuck on me at 1 and him at 3, even when I moved further and further back. If i am right next to him at 3 with him, he gets it. If i am any distance away, he goes in the second pole. Hmmmm........I got one good entry and moved up and then would come back to see if I could repeat the success. He was nailing everything else, even when I was at 11 and he was at 9. Ended on him getting it correctly and will start there again before we move to exercise 9. Not sure why this entry is so hard for him. I have to say usually on course he beats me to weaves so maybe he just isn't use to me being in front of him? Taking the dogs to the other house today on my way to work. Just don't want them here crated in the downstairs while they are working on the floor. They claim they are going to get it fixed and a coat of stain on it today. I am not holding my breath.
A very quick session 2. Had 5 minutes before i had to leave for work. Weaves were still set up. Thought I would try my luck on that tough entry again. Still having issues. Sometimes will get it if I step towards him sometimes not. Sometimes will get it if I have my hand up sometimes not. Still haven't figured out the key to this one. Ended it when he had one successful entry at 3, BIG party. Will go onto exercise 9 but will work this particular entry in randomly throughout to see if i can work it some more. Hate to see him have so many failures on this entry:( Hoping to get off at a decent hour so i can work outside.
Session 3 and 4. Got off work while it was still light out. Found a small non icy patch to put him and the poles. Started off with that tough entry. Still not getting it. Maybe 1 out of 4 tries he got it. Focused on the rest of exercise 9 and just randomly worked that entry in. He nailed every other entry in that exercise but still having trouble with the entry at 3. I guess this will just be our waterloo. Will continue to work it on on the exercises we are currently on. Will start exercise 10 tomorrow. Suppose to be a beautiful day so I should be able to get outside and maybe even go to the park and work.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
2 x2 weaves day 5
Started off the day with a migraine. I really, really didn't want to train or go to work but i have to. My morning sickness is running my life right now and dammit, I have too much to do to let it get me down. I am hoping I am not getting sick but worried it might be from smelling floor fumes as I am congested and run down feeling. We still have a week of this but are moving out when they start the finish on the living room floor. I think since that room is twice the size of the dining room and the fact that we can't be upstairs is too dangerous for us to be in the house. Should only be out three days and then we can move back in and enjoy our beautiful floors. Not sure when we will get the kitchen floor done, need to rebuild the subfloor first. May take a floor break just to get back our sanity for a little while.
Session 1. We worked two sets of poles and us both moving around the clock together (exercise 6 and 7). Where as Deuce really struggled last night, this morning he was perfect (well almost). He missed two entries on the first try and that was because he gets so excited, if i don't reset him and make him sit and calm down, he just runs at them balls to the wall and takes what he gets. He LOVES this game! We are ready to move on to exercise 8-11 where we both move around the clock independantly. I have been saying go weave a few times accidently so trying to keep my mouth shut and let him offer still. I hope I can get done at a decent hour today at work and go outside and do some work. He drives to the poles and drives though them but want to be on grass where he can really dig.
Session 2. Finally got outside. Can you believe it is just now getting dark and it is 5:30 YIPEEE! Found a patch free of ice and got some work done with speed. He still seems to get going so fast that he misses sometimes. I will probably try and get a session in again tomorrow morning outside if the weather permits and repeat what we did today. I mainly just worked around the clock with him on my left and him on my right but me with him on the clock. He still at first missed his entry with him on the right and me at 11 oclock. Finally found it and got it successfully twice both times with huge parties. Same thing on the other side, when I got to say 2, he kept going in the wrong pole. Got it wrong several times but I was bound and determined to let him struggle and figure it out. Man was he driving to the poles and out of the poles like a madman. Who knew the food tube was that cool? Anyway, again, he finally got it twice in a row and I had HUGE parties both times and quit. Will start with those two again next time I am outside. Will try and get one more session tonight in the bedroom with the two sets and work me being on separate sides of the clock than he. Suppose to be a nice weekend so hoping we can get some good outside work in this weekend. Speed is a huge factor in him missing so the more distance I can get from the poles so he can work up speed, the better.
Session 3. Did not go very well at all. Started having me at 1 and him at 5, 4, 3. Got stuck at 4, got past it but got really stuck at three. He did want to go get that entry correct, he wanted to just come to the pole I was closest to. Since the article did not say when I do the around the clock work if I should stand at 1 near the first set of poles or the second set, and I was at the second set, went back to standing at the first. Finally got two correct entries, big party, quitting time. Will start with those two entries tomorrow during first session. EXHAUSTED! Injected 300 beetles today and then moved stuff from our house to the house we will camp out at. Needed to go to bed about an hour ago! Not looking forward to camping at this house but anything is better than nothing. We will have a radio, heat, no fumes:) and bathrooms so what more could we want?
Session 1. We worked two sets of poles and us both moving around the clock together (exercise 6 and 7). Where as Deuce really struggled last night, this morning he was perfect (well almost). He missed two entries on the first try and that was because he gets so excited, if i don't reset him and make him sit and calm down, he just runs at them balls to the wall and takes what he gets. He LOVES this game! We are ready to move on to exercise 8-11 where we both move around the clock independantly. I have been saying go weave a few times accidently so trying to keep my mouth shut and let him offer still. I hope I can get done at a decent hour today at work and go outside and do some work. He drives to the poles and drives though them but want to be on grass where he can really dig.
Session 2. Finally got outside. Can you believe it is just now getting dark and it is 5:30 YIPEEE! Found a patch free of ice and got some work done with speed. He still seems to get going so fast that he misses sometimes. I will probably try and get a session in again tomorrow morning outside if the weather permits and repeat what we did today. I mainly just worked around the clock with him on my left and him on my right but me with him on the clock. He still at first missed his entry with him on the right and me at 11 oclock. Finally found it and got it successfully twice both times with huge parties. Same thing on the other side, when I got to say 2, he kept going in the wrong pole. Got it wrong several times but I was bound and determined to let him struggle and figure it out. Man was he driving to the poles and out of the poles like a madman. Who knew the food tube was that cool? Anyway, again, he finally got it twice in a row and I had HUGE parties both times and quit. Will start with those two again next time I am outside. Will try and get one more session tonight in the bedroom with the two sets and work me being on separate sides of the clock than he. Suppose to be a nice weekend so hoping we can get some good outside work in this weekend. Speed is a huge factor in him missing so the more distance I can get from the poles so he can work up speed, the better.
Session 3. Did not go very well at all. Started having me at 1 and him at 5, 4, 3. Got stuck at 4, got past it but got really stuck at three. He did want to go get that entry correct, he wanted to just come to the pole I was closest to. Since the article did not say when I do the around the clock work if I should stand at 1 near the first set of poles or the second set, and I was at the second set, went back to standing at the first. Finally got two correct entries, big party, quitting time. Will start with those two entries tomorrow during first session. EXHAUSTED! Injected 300 beetles today and then moved stuff from our house to the house we will camp out at. Needed to go to bed about an hour ago! Not looking forward to camping at this house but anything is better than nothing. We will have a radio, heat, no fumes:) and bathrooms so what more could we want?
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
2 x 2 weaves Day 4
So day 4 may be a short day depending on how far we get with the moving tonight. I did get one session in this morning (between dry heaving, thanks morning sickness). We completed exercise 11 with no missed entries. He really seems to have gotten it now. Tony actually sat upstairs last night and watched and was so excited to see Deuce figuring things out. He said he could see the wheels in deuce's brain turning. I love any exercise that makes them think, especially shaping exercises. Today we introduce the second set of 2. I want to start that before I go to work if this dry heaving will go away.
Session 2. Introduction of second set of poles. Much like SG's method, we introduce two sets of poles but both sets of poles are at 6 and 12 with a four foot distance between them and the reward at first being the two poles. This is getting a little complicated in our bedroom as I am running out of space. Having to set him up 3/5 feet away from the first pole and having the two sets and four feet apart is a little tight with all the dog crates in the bedroom right now. I just might have to, once the dining room doesn't have so much in it, make that the crate room or perhaps clear a space in the junk room. The junk room stays nice and cool in the winter but we would have to do something about the summer time. Going to have to do something soon anyway as the baby's crib will be in our bedroom in 6 months anyway. I digress. At first he just wanted to do all four at one which since he already knows weaves, but I made sure he stopped and got his reward in between. Then he seemed to get a little confused, like he was saying, isn't this one obstacle mom? I still am not saying anything other than releasing him from his wait before he does any poles. The recommendation is to go back and start all the around the clock work again with the poles apart and then after you are done, put them together and fade out the reward. Just wondering if I can skip ahead since he already knows how to weave. Decisions,decisions.
Session 3. Decided to work in a different location. Added the second set of poles and did so in living room which is hardwood. We worked around the clock but he couldn't get good footing and kept on slipping. Again the toughest entries say 10 and 11 with him on my right and 2 and 3 with him on my left was very tough for him after he had done them so well the previous exercises. Of course it is a different place so I have to take my sets as many places as I can. He finally got both in session 4 but after many wrong attempts. I will start tomorrow at this spot and see if our work paid off. I also would love to get outside where we have more room but they are predicting snow again tomorrow. Right now we have a layer of icy snow on the ground which isn't much better than the carpet or the hardwood. I think for the harder entries, especially the entry where he is on my left and he has to enter and wrap back that I will put the poles apart and treat those as two separate entries.
Session 2. Introduction of second set of poles. Much like SG's method, we introduce two sets of poles but both sets of poles are at 6 and 12 with a four foot distance between them and the reward at first being the two poles. This is getting a little complicated in our bedroom as I am running out of space. Having to set him up 3/5 feet away from the first pole and having the two sets and four feet apart is a little tight with all the dog crates in the bedroom right now. I just might have to, once the dining room doesn't have so much in it, make that the crate room or perhaps clear a space in the junk room. The junk room stays nice and cool in the winter but we would have to do something about the summer time. Going to have to do something soon anyway as the baby's crib will be in our bedroom in 6 months anyway. I digress. At first he just wanted to do all four at one which since he already knows weaves, but I made sure he stopped and got his reward in between. Then he seemed to get a little confused, like he was saying, isn't this one obstacle mom? I still am not saying anything other than releasing him from his wait before he does any poles. The recommendation is to go back and start all the around the clock work again with the poles apart and then after you are done, put them together and fade out the reward. Just wondering if I can skip ahead since he already knows how to weave. Decisions,decisions.
Session 3. Decided to work in a different location. Added the second set of poles and did so in living room which is hardwood. We worked around the clock but he couldn't get good footing and kept on slipping. Again the toughest entries say 10 and 11 with him on my right and 2 and 3 with him on my left was very tough for him after he had done them so well the previous exercises. Of course it is a different place so I have to take my sets as many places as I can. He finally got both in session 4 but after many wrong attempts. I will start tomorrow at this spot and see if our work paid off. I also would love to get outside where we have more room but they are predicting snow again tomorrow. Right now we have a layer of icy snow on the ground which isn't much better than the carpet or the hardwood. I think for the harder entries, especially the entry where he is on my left and he has to enter and wrap back that I will put the poles apart and treat those as two separate entries.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
2 x 2 weaves Day 3
So I am stuck at home so I have all day to work with Deuce. I find it very hard to keep sessions short so I am going to start taking a timer with me so I am not tempted to go over time. Today we are starting out with my position and his position changing around the clock. The poles are still at 12 and 6.
Session 1. Started out with exercise 8. Everything went very smoothly when he was on my right and we were rotating around the clock with me at 1 and him going from 6 to 3. No problems there at all. Problems started when I was at 11 and he was on my left rotating from 6 to 9 particularly when he was at 8 and 9. Gave him a few tries and then would go back a step, get success at that step, and then move forward again. By the end he finally figured out to not just go through the poles but to wrap that first pole and come in. It was hard not to step in and help but I kept my mouth shut and just let him figure it out. I figured moving back a step was enough help. I am going to start my next session with a review of that and then hopefully progress to exercise 9.
Session 2. Started out with a quick review of exercise 8. He breezed through them this time, even getting the hardest entry on the first try. Wow, I sure do love shaping exercises! He must have had his thinking cap on more this time because we were going through the exercise very quickly until we got to the very last one. I was at 5 and he was at 9 and he wanted to just go through the poles, not wrap that first pole and go forward away from me. After a couple of times of backing back up on the clock, he got it and then was good to go. Will start the next session with that entry and see how he does.
Session 3. For whatever reason we struggled with exercise 10 and had to break it down and just do the first part. He really has struggles with me being at the 4 oclock position and him being on the other side of the poles. He finally at the end got the hardest entry and I stopped after one successful time after all of our struggles. I would simply try a postion, he wouldn't get it and after two tries i would move one position back on the clock. Maybe I am not moving back quick enough? Maybe after one wrong try i should set him up for success? We will review the beginning of exercise 10 and see where we are at in the next session.
Session 4. Took a very long break before session 4 started. He got all the entries on the first try which tells me he must have been tired on session 3. I am trying to keep the sessions under 5 minutes and keep him up and happy. He nailed the hardest entry on exercise 11, which was me at 3 and him at 8. I am so proud! I would like to do one more session to finish up exercise 11 but will gage it by how alert and ready to go he is.
Fell asleep on the couch so no session five. Not sure how much I will get done on day 4 as we will be moving all of our living room tonight to the dining room and then moving out of the house so they can finish the floor in the living room. This whole house thing has been a nightmare but i think I see an end in sight. Once the living room is finished, tony can rebuild the deck and the kitchen subfloor and then we can have that floor laid and be DONE (other than a few small dry wall patch jobs)! Our loans are going through at the bank so we may even be able to get a new hot water tank and water softner so we can actually use the big whirlpool tub in the master bath. I keep thinking maybe this whole sewer thing is a blessing in disguise because it forced us to get all the projects in the house finished before the baby comes.
Session 1. Started out with exercise 8. Everything went very smoothly when he was on my right and we were rotating around the clock with me at 1 and him going from 6 to 3. No problems there at all. Problems started when I was at 11 and he was on my left rotating from 6 to 9 particularly when he was at 8 and 9. Gave him a few tries and then would go back a step, get success at that step, and then move forward again. By the end he finally figured out to not just go through the poles but to wrap that first pole and come in. It was hard not to step in and help but I kept my mouth shut and just let him figure it out. I figured moving back a step was enough help. I am going to start my next session with a review of that and then hopefully progress to exercise 9.
Session 2. Started out with a quick review of exercise 8. He breezed through them this time, even getting the hardest entry on the first try. Wow, I sure do love shaping exercises! He must have had his thinking cap on more this time because we were going through the exercise very quickly until we got to the very last one. I was at 5 and he was at 9 and he wanted to just go through the poles, not wrap that first pole and go forward away from me. After a couple of times of backing back up on the clock, he got it and then was good to go. Will start the next session with that entry and see how he does.
Session 3. For whatever reason we struggled with exercise 10 and had to break it down and just do the first part. He really has struggles with me being at the 4 oclock position and him being on the other side of the poles. He finally at the end got the hardest entry and I stopped after one successful time after all of our struggles. I would simply try a postion, he wouldn't get it and after two tries i would move one position back on the clock. Maybe I am not moving back quick enough? Maybe after one wrong try i should set him up for success? We will review the beginning of exercise 10 and see where we are at in the next session.
Session 4. Took a very long break before session 4 started. He got all the entries on the first try which tells me he must have been tired on session 3. I am trying to keep the sessions under 5 minutes and keep him up and happy. He nailed the hardest entry on exercise 11, which was me at 3 and him at 8. I am so proud! I would like to do one more session to finish up exercise 11 but will gage it by how alert and ready to go he is.
Fell asleep on the couch so no session five. Not sure how much I will get done on day 4 as we will be moving all of our living room tonight to the dining room and then moving out of the house so they can finish the floor in the living room. This whole house thing has been a nightmare but i think I see an end in sight. Once the living room is finished, tony can rebuild the deck and the kitchen subfloor and then we can have that floor laid and be DONE (other than a few small dry wall patch jobs)! Our loans are going through at the bank so we may even be able to get a new hot water tank and water softner so we can actually use the big whirlpool tub in the master bath. I keep thinking maybe this whole sewer thing is a blessing in disguise because it forced us to get all the projects in the house finished before the baby comes.
Monday, December 19, 2011
2 x 2 day 2
Okay so had to switch things up a little bit. I was having issues with where deuce was suppose to be and where i was suppose to be and decided that MEB's article about 2 x 2s defined things alot better for the literal side of me. Here is a link to her article http://kineticdog.com/Files/2%20x%202%20PDF.pdf. I am following it religiously. I like that she gives such specific instructions. Stand here, put your dog here, dog goes here, treat goes here. Only the correct entry is rewarded that makes sense to me. Was having issues believing that having him on my right and sending him through two poles ahead of me was teaching him the correct entry. Long story but I am very, very literal:) In MEB's article, dog always enters with poles in the left shoulder. I think both methods are aweome, it is just MEB's article helped me by telling me exactly where i needed to stand at exactly what time. Of course doing everything in the bedroom since it is snowing and icing outside. We are up to step 3 left side. He is driving to the correct entry very nicely almost every time when he is on my right. He has trouble when the poles are at 6 and 12 and I am at like 10 or 11 when he is on my right. He is getting better for sure. He was just running straight through the poles, now he is running out and around the first pole with it on his left shoulder and driving to his reward. I have done two sessions and am about to do session three where we work around the clock with him on my left. Will update after I do.
Update: Session 3. Reminder of around the clock with dog on my right. He is now getting that tough entry like a pro. Started round the clock on my left. Was having issues with him looking back as he enters the poles. It is way easier to reward him when he is on my right. I don't like the fact that he is driving to the poles and then almost stopping and looking back when he gets into the when he is on my left. I am throwing ahead but seem to have issues when he is on my left. Had gone back to individual cookies but now am back to food tube. Of course space is limiting what we can do too. He is getting close to the bed when he is going from my left side. Next session will have him on my left and right with the poles switched 12 and 6 on the other end. I am looking forward to doing step four from the article tomorrow:)
Update: Session 4. Final session of the night. Deuce is nicely finding his entries no matter where we are on the clock. I have to think sometimes about what is right and sometimes I have to walk out his path when the entries are hard. I think this is harder for me than him. He isn't looking back as much at all now that I am throwing his treat tube. I fully feel like we are ready for step 4 tomorrow. With the snow and ice that is coming down now, I have a feeling we will be stuck at home with nothing to do other than play with the two by twos anyway.
Update: Session 3. Reminder of around the clock with dog on my right. He is now getting that tough entry like a pro. Started round the clock on my left. Was having issues with him looking back as he enters the poles. It is way easier to reward him when he is on my right. I don't like the fact that he is driving to the poles and then almost stopping and looking back when he gets into the when he is on my left. I am throwing ahead but seem to have issues when he is on my left. Had gone back to individual cookies but now am back to food tube. Of course space is limiting what we can do too. He is getting close to the bed when he is going from my left side. Next session will have him on my left and right with the poles switched 12 and 6 on the other end. I am looking forward to doing step four from the article tomorrow:)
Update: Session 4. Final session of the night. Deuce is nicely finding his entries no matter where we are on the clock. I have to think sometimes about what is right and sometimes I have to walk out his path when the entries are hard. I think this is harder for me than him. He isn't looking back as much at all now that I am throwing his treat tube. I fully feel like we are ready for step 4 tomorrow. With the snow and ice that is coming down now, I have a feeling we will be stuck at home with nothing to do other than play with the two by twos anyway.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
2 x 2 day one
So i am going back and doing the 2 x 2 method with Deuce to try and build value on entries. I bought a set of 6 since he essentially knows how to weave. If I like the method, I will probably teach Stella this way too. Since this is his blog, I am going to write about my training sessions here. I am going to try and get 3 short sessions a day but we are suppose to get rain and snow for the next two days so I may have to do most of the training in our bedroom which isn't hugely ideal but no choice. There is plenty of room for him to drive to his reward line as our master bedroom is pretty big.
Session 1. Shaping the poles. Well, don't try and shape two poles if you have already used poles for something else. We used poles stuck in the ground for cik and cap so he immediately started offering wrapping around the poles. He did figure it out that of course that wasn't what I wanted but it took a little while of him being really frustrated with me. I had a flag out for my reward line and I started out very close and moved back as he started getting it. I wish he was toy motivated as throwing the treat sometimes wasn't the easiest. I hit him a couple of times and a couple of times he turned before I could get the treat thrown but overall I think it went well. For the next session later today, I hope to move around the arc and see if I get him through the poles again. I think that is all I will do today and will introduce the next set tomorrow. Going to watch the video or at least the beginning again to make sure I am doing this right. I am so worried about screwing this up!
Session 2. Decided to move the 2 x 2 set upstairs in the bedroom so he could find his cookies quicker. Of course that meant baby gating the other dogs outside the bedroom and stella being the little agility dog she is kept jumping the baby gate to join us. Watched the video again and decided since he was offering going through the poles with alot of enthusiasm that i would go ahead and next session put the poles at 2 and 8. Started out with them straight, did a few rewards, then put them at 2 and 8. He seems to have the most trouble when I am close to 8 on the arc. He still wants to occasionally go around the poles and wrap like cik and cap and then when he doesn't get rewarded, he gets frustrated and barks and then turbo offers behaviors. I have to call him back and get him revved up beside me and then try again. It seems to be so hard to not offer any type of lure. I keep on wanting to help him when he is having trouble by stepping forward or saying okay. When he gets stuck in a position, I just get him to jump up on me or play with him really quickly so he gets out of whatever position he is offering. Am going to do one more session today and call it quits. It is really hard to not want to do more when he is doing well. I am trying to keep my sessions 5 minutes or less.
Session 3. Started in the bedroom again. Was getting drive and hardly any of the wrapping of the poles. Decided after a few tries that we needed to go outside so I could add speed. Also started using the food tube so he could find the reward. That helped with my throws as well so i got hardly any turning back and looking at me. By the end of the third session, he was driving through the poles no matter where I was on the clock or which side he was on. Tomorrow, will add two sets of two. Will probably be back in the bedroom since it is suppose to snow and rain. This method is cool because it does let them reason through problems and let them think of the solution themselves. I am sure using the channels and channeling them in out is kind of a crutch to them in a way. This is why I didn't use wires or gates when teaching deuce weaves originally as they are all crutches in their own way and hard to fade. I am keeping my fingers crossed we have as much success in the future! Really wish there was some one local to work with that could help me make sure I am doing it right! Deuce has it, I am the problem child!
Session 1. Shaping the poles. Well, don't try and shape two poles if you have already used poles for something else. We used poles stuck in the ground for cik and cap so he immediately started offering wrapping around the poles. He did figure it out that of course that wasn't what I wanted but it took a little while of him being really frustrated with me. I had a flag out for my reward line and I started out very close and moved back as he started getting it. I wish he was toy motivated as throwing the treat sometimes wasn't the easiest. I hit him a couple of times and a couple of times he turned before I could get the treat thrown but overall I think it went well. For the next session later today, I hope to move around the arc and see if I get him through the poles again. I think that is all I will do today and will introduce the next set tomorrow. Going to watch the video or at least the beginning again to make sure I am doing this right. I am so worried about screwing this up!
Session 2. Decided to move the 2 x 2 set upstairs in the bedroom so he could find his cookies quicker. Of course that meant baby gating the other dogs outside the bedroom and stella being the little agility dog she is kept jumping the baby gate to join us. Watched the video again and decided since he was offering going through the poles with alot of enthusiasm that i would go ahead and next session put the poles at 2 and 8. Started out with them straight, did a few rewards, then put them at 2 and 8. He seems to have the most trouble when I am close to 8 on the arc. He still wants to occasionally go around the poles and wrap like cik and cap and then when he doesn't get rewarded, he gets frustrated and barks and then turbo offers behaviors. I have to call him back and get him revved up beside me and then try again. It seems to be so hard to not offer any type of lure. I keep on wanting to help him when he is having trouble by stepping forward or saying okay. When he gets stuck in a position, I just get him to jump up on me or play with him really quickly so he gets out of whatever position he is offering. Am going to do one more session today and call it quits. It is really hard to not want to do more when he is doing well. I am trying to keep my sessions 5 minutes or less.
Session 3. Started in the bedroom again. Was getting drive and hardly any of the wrapping of the poles. Decided after a few tries that we needed to go outside so I could add speed. Also started using the food tube so he could find the reward. That helped with my throws as well so i got hardly any turning back and looking at me. By the end of the third session, he was driving through the poles no matter where I was on the clock or which side he was on. Tomorrow, will add two sets of two. Will probably be back in the bedroom since it is suppose to snow and rain. This method is cool because it does let them reason through problems and let them think of the solution themselves. I am sure using the channels and channeling them in out is kind of a crutch to them in a way. This is why I didn't use wires or gates when teaching deuce weaves originally as they are all crutches in their own way and hard to fade. I am keeping my fingers crossed we have as much success in the future! Really wish there was some one local to work with that could help me make sure I am doing it right! Deuce has it, I am the problem child!
NADAC day
I decided to go and play NADAC for a day just to see how deuce handled their weave poles. I had forgotten they put hoops in every class now and that they didn't stake down the poles anymore. We had a round of touch and go, a round of weaves, two rounds of standard, jumpers and chances. Touch and go was funny because deuce didn't realize that big black rubber sheeted thing was the a-frame. After he did it once he figured it out but I wish I had had someone video taping him and the look on his face when he approached it. He also really didn't think the hoops were anything to be done. I didn't want him jumping them and had put him through the ones in the practice area, but he still didn't really get them which sucks because it screws up your handling when you have to baby something. SO the first run was kind of a wreck, me trying to get him through stupid hoops and him not seeing them at all sometimes. We still managed a Q LOL!
The second round was weaves and i was excited to see how he handled tunnels to weaves. We had three sets of weaves to accomplish and he missed the first two sets on the first try. They were coming straight out of tunnels but I was decelerated standing there telling him go weave and he wasn't even trying. He got the third set as it was a gentle curve into them and he wasn't running top speed so he got a HUGE verbal YES, good dog. I was still very frustrated with his run. He didn't Q because the last tunnel went straight to the alley way out and he just couldn't stop and ran right out of the ring. Doesn't matter, doing this for fun so the Qs are nothing to me in this venue. It was more the fact he didn't try AT ALL to get the entries. Next run was standard so decided to try the one try and you are done method. Again, the poles were after a nice gentle curve so no reason why he should miss them. I was telling him go weave two obstacles back. He blew past them right into the second pole. I called him back, put him in heel position and we left heeling out of the ring. He had this very surprised look on his face and was even more surprised when he was promptly put in his crate without any of his normal post run cookies. I had taken stella with me which was a good thing because I got her out and played with her and lavished her with praise and cookies. We even went for a nice long walk without deuce at all. Came back and ran round two in which the course was reversed, putting the weaves as the second obstacle. The hoop was the first so he had a very clear view of the weaves and I led out just like i normally would and released and said go weave. He NAILED them!!!! Of course I tried to set him back far enough that he had some speed coming into them but it wasn't like the speed he has on course when they are further in the course. We had a big verbal party and went on to smoke the course and win a first with a great time and a great YPS. Of course it was novice and nadac but it was fun to have a good run. This is why i get frustrated though because I know if he had his entries, we could be up there with the good BCs in time and placements. The next two runs didn't have weaves as they were jumpers and chances. He had a great run in jumpers with another YPS over 6 and a second place to one of the most awesome goldens in our area. Chances was a wreck and probably shouldn't stayed so late just for it since i am not serious about NADAC but i had paid my money and didn't want to waste it.
I wanted to go back today and run standard again but when I got up, my body said no way jose, so I just went back to sleep. Of course thanks to stella, only got another hour of sleep but it was worth it. Today deuce and i embark on our two by two journey. I bought a set of 6 poles in the 2 x 2 configuration and they guy had them in his truck so was able to bring them home with my yesterday. I am still leery of the program, not because it is hard, just because I am scared of screwing it up and screwing him up. I have the DVD and the articles from clean run but like to have someone in person showing me every step of the way. I have two weeks till my next show so hope i can have some progress by then. I may drag them upstairs into my bedroom or take them with us to the house we will be staying in while our floors are being done. They are suppose to be done with the dining room floor by tuesday or wed and then start on the living room floor by thursday. I just hope they can be done by christmas!
The second round was weaves and i was excited to see how he handled tunnels to weaves. We had three sets of weaves to accomplish and he missed the first two sets on the first try. They were coming straight out of tunnels but I was decelerated standing there telling him go weave and he wasn't even trying. He got the third set as it was a gentle curve into them and he wasn't running top speed so he got a HUGE verbal YES, good dog. I was still very frustrated with his run. He didn't Q because the last tunnel went straight to the alley way out and he just couldn't stop and ran right out of the ring. Doesn't matter, doing this for fun so the Qs are nothing to me in this venue. It was more the fact he didn't try AT ALL to get the entries. Next run was standard so decided to try the one try and you are done method. Again, the poles were after a nice gentle curve so no reason why he should miss them. I was telling him go weave two obstacles back. He blew past them right into the second pole. I called him back, put him in heel position and we left heeling out of the ring. He had this very surprised look on his face and was even more surprised when he was promptly put in his crate without any of his normal post run cookies. I had taken stella with me which was a good thing because I got her out and played with her and lavished her with praise and cookies. We even went for a nice long walk without deuce at all. Came back and ran round two in which the course was reversed, putting the weaves as the second obstacle. The hoop was the first so he had a very clear view of the weaves and I led out just like i normally would and released and said go weave. He NAILED them!!!! Of course I tried to set him back far enough that he had some speed coming into them but it wasn't like the speed he has on course when they are further in the course. We had a big verbal party and went on to smoke the course and win a first with a great time and a great YPS. Of course it was novice and nadac but it was fun to have a good run. This is why i get frustrated though because I know if he had his entries, we could be up there with the good BCs in time and placements. The next two runs didn't have weaves as they were jumpers and chances. He had a great run in jumpers with another YPS over 6 and a second place to one of the most awesome goldens in our area. Chances was a wreck and probably shouldn't stayed so late just for it since i am not serious about NADAC but i had paid my money and didn't want to waste it.
I wanted to go back today and run standard again but when I got up, my body said no way jose, so I just went back to sleep. Of course thanks to stella, only got another hour of sleep but it was worth it. Today deuce and i embark on our two by two journey. I bought a set of 6 poles in the 2 x 2 configuration and they guy had them in his truck so was able to bring them home with my yesterday. I am still leery of the program, not because it is hard, just because I am scared of screwing it up and screwing him up. I have the DVD and the articles from clean run but like to have someone in person showing me every step of the way. I have two weeks till my next show so hope i can have some progress by then. I may drag them upstairs into my bedroom or take them with us to the house we will be staying in while our floors are being done. They are suppose to be done with the dining room floor by tuesday or wed and then start on the living room floor by thursday. I just hope they can be done by christmas!
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