Here's a little video of OhLa doing her hand targets. She is working on keeping repeating nose touches despite distractions. She only gets rewarded if she nose touches without looking at the hand with the food in it after each touch.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Flat!
Here's OhLa doing her supa fast downs. Just a couple to show you her potential! If she does rally later she'll have a great moving down!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Walking on walls
Last night in class we worked on a few things, and I took away some homework. We had to show off a newly shaped behaviour, so I showed off OhLa's "head down."
Then we worked on figure eights around posts, working on the dog staying beside you on either side and not cutting behind you. She did pretty well in the not cutting behind me part, but on left turns she wants to run out ahead of me. She cut me off every time! So that will be a work in progress for this week.
Next we worked on a sit stay, walking out about twenty feet, dropping the toy, and then releasing the dog to the toy. OhLa's sit stay is improving, but I find that I don't trust her much. I don't feel like she has understanding in that department, and since that is something that will carry on through everything in her career it is definitely worth me putting some time and effort into working on it.
Finally we started wall walking. Sound strange? Yep! It is a rear end awareness exercise, you teach the dog to put their back feet up on something, then up the wall into a hand stand. It sounds strange, and it is, but it's a great muscle builder and a stunning parlor trick to boot!
Then we worked on figure eights around posts, working on the dog staying beside you on either side and not cutting behind you. She did pretty well in the not cutting behind me part, but on left turns she wants to run out ahead of me. She cut me off every time! So that will be a work in progress for this week.
Next we worked on a sit stay, walking out about twenty feet, dropping the toy, and then releasing the dog to the toy. OhLa's sit stay is improving, but I find that I don't trust her much. I don't feel like she has understanding in that department, and since that is something that will carry on through everything in her career it is definitely worth me putting some time and effort into working on it.
Finally we started wall walking. Sound strange? Yep! It is a rear end awareness exercise, you teach the dog to put their back feet up on something, then up the wall into a hand stand. It sounds strange, and it is, but it's a great muscle builder and a stunning parlor trick to boot!
Monday, May 10, 2010
The camera has arrrived, now how do I use it?!
I've got some video of OhLa playing fetch with Marty yesterday, now I just have to figure out how to get it on here! It is too big to upload directly on here so I'm putting it on youtube, but then how do I get it into here? Questions questions questions......
In the meantime, I did start OhLa's 2x2 weave training on Saturday. I'll head back out to the training centre today and see what I get (and maybe catch some video of it too!), see if she remembers. I shaped going through the poles with food then transferred to a toy on Saturday. She kind of got it, but I'm not convinced she understands, but OhLa seems to be the kind of dog that needs to think about it for a day or two before she "gets" stuff so we'll see.
Okay, so i am trying the "embed" feature. Fingers crossed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v55JOANQU4
In the meantime, I did start OhLa's 2x2 weave training on Saturday. I'll head back out to the training centre today and see what I get (and maybe catch some video of it too!), see if she remembers. I shaped going through the poles with food then transferred to a toy on Saturday. She kind of got it, but I'm not convinced she understands, but OhLa seems to be the kind of dog that needs to think about it for a day or two before she "gets" stuff so we'll see.
Okay, so i am trying the "embed" feature. Fingers crossed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v55JOANQU4
Friday, May 7, 2010
Musings from this week
I spent last weekend at a dog trial in Armstrong BC. Lovely venue, great people as always, nice trial, yucky weather! Here I thought I was going to the sunny Okanogan, NOT! One day I will be able to buy a nice camp trailer with a bathroom and a furnace, but not today. Sigh, the back of the truck it is for this group!
OhLa came with us so I could continue her training while away in new environments and so I could be sure to keep an eye on her. I learned a few more important things about her over the weekend that were interesting. One, she is an excellent traveller. She does her business with no fuss, which is really nice. Two, she has terrible leash manners! I had her on a flexi for potty breaks and I'm quite sure my right arm is a little longer than my left now! Too bad for her though that she is stuck with me, I have ways..... She walks beautifully on a sense-ation harness. Ha! She is also obsessed with eating grass right now, not sure what that is all about but perhaps she was a cow in her former life. She is getting her greens via kelp in her meals so maybe she is just enjoying the lovely spring offerings for the novelty of it.
We worked on hand targets, sits, downs, and stays while we were away. All near the outdoor ring and inside the barn. She did great, not so sure about lying down in the dirt at first but once she got used to it she was offering downs like a pro in the dirt. :)
We also successfully shaped a back up this week. It's great, she can back up quite a long ways! We also started working on circle work which she is pretty good at, and I've introduced the travel plank and the target plate.
We start contacts and weaves class next week, so we need to be prepared! My goal for this weekend is to introduce her to the 2x2 weaves and the tunnel.
OhLa came with us so I could continue her training while away in new environments and so I could be sure to keep an eye on her. I learned a few more important things about her over the weekend that were interesting. One, she is an excellent traveller. She does her business with no fuss, which is really nice. Two, she has terrible leash manners! I had her on a flexi for potty breaks and I'm quite sure my right arm is a little longer than my left now! Too bad for her though that she is stuck with me, I have ways..... She walks beautifully on a sense-ation harness. Ha! She is also obsessed with eating grass right now, not sure what that is all about but perhaps she was a cow in her former life. She is getting her greens via kelp in her meals so maybe she is just enjoying the lovely spring offerings for the novelty of it.
We worked on hand targets, sits, downs, and stays while we were away. All near the outdoor ring and inside the barn. She did great, not so sure about lying down in the dirt at first but once she got used to it she was offering downs like a pro in the dirt. :)
We also successfully shaped a back up this week. It's great, she can back up quite a long ways! We also started working on circle work which she is pretty good at, and I've introduced the travel plank and the target plate.
We start contacts and weaves class next week, so we need to be prepared! My goal for this weekend is to introduce her to the 2x2 weaves and the tunnel.
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