I worked Miley thur BackYard Dogs sequence in April's Clean Run. #1 was no problem. But #2 was tough for poor Miley. She just kept sucking into the tunnel. A couple of times she almost stopped, looked at me and then took the tunnel anyways. Tough little missy she is. So I back chained it but when we got all the way to the back she would then suck into the tunnel again. Ugh! We back chained and back chained. We finally got it. Then disaster struck. Stephanie was in the house with the other dogs. I hear Stephanie screaming. ( thats nothing new, so I really didnt respond). Then she opens the door and says there is something wrong with Mickey. Micky is having a seizure. We arent sure if he got in a fight with Guiness and that triggered the seizure or if Mickey started having a seizure and then Guiness attacked him. This is probably the worse seizure Mickey has every had. He is never unconscious, but usually gets really stiff mostly in his legs. This time he was crying a lot and stretch backwards with his head really pulling backwards. Poor Mickey. To be awake and you body doing these weird things. Then Guienss trying to get him and he cant even run or fight back because his body isnt working. Ugh!! He only has a small abrasion on his head , no real puncture wounds. But he is freaked out. Usually if he has a seizure he will try to get to me first. Then I hold him for a few minutes as his legs and body is kinda stiff. Then when its over, he jumps down, shakes and continues on his merry way. Not this time. He hasnt been happy all evening. He has been hiding under the bed most of the evening. He did come out to eat dinner. Poor Mickey. I dont think he in injured but he isnt right.
I did do #3 and #4 in the backyard dogs after everything calmed down. This time she had no roblem between going to the tunnel for sequence #1 or pulling off tothe other jumps in sequence #2-4.
In other events today a squirrel decided to spend time with the kids at recess at school. How weird is that? I get a call from a teacher stating that a kid pet a squirrel at recess, did she need to come see me. What? Why would a squirrel let kids pet it? I call the head of building maintenance at our school to get him to chase the squirrel off. Well he tells me he has already taken it twice to the woods and it keeps following him back to school. Even tried to come into the building. It also climbed up his pants leg. All I could think was this silly squirrel was going to bite someone and then I have a whole bunch of problems. So they put the squirrel in a box and took it to the Wildlife rescue place down the street. Do you think someone was raising this squirrel and then when it go to rambunctious the put it out? I guess it was a better story then the kid that fell outside at recess and impaled himself with his sharks tooth necklace.
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Poor Mickey!! I hope he's feeling better.
I saw those courses in Clean Run, I haven't gotten to try them yet but I'm pretty sure Layla'll get sucked into the tunnel too.
That's crazy about the squirrel. It seems to me like it was tamed at one point. When I was a vet tech, we'd have people come in with mice or rats that they found in their basement that "looked sick"...maybe from the rat poison they put down there??
Sounds like you had quite an eventful day! Hope your little Mickey is doing better, poor guy!
Poor Mickey. That must have been very scarey for Stephanie. I hope he is ok.
The squirrels at my college were very friendly and would let people pet them (I never did!). I think they were just so accustomed to people, they almost became domestic. Too risky with kids though.
I thought those sequences looked so easy. Now I can see how they could really send your dog off into all sorts of off course places.
Poor Mickey - I hope he is better this morning!
The squirrel story is really weird! I wouldn't pet a squirrel even if it did come right up to me. Who knows if it was a pet or if it is sick?
I saw those exercises too and thought we'd try them one day. Not today though - we got an inch of snow last night!
So sorry to hear about Mickey. I used to have a little dog (poodle x Bichon) who had epilepsy. It's not fun.
In exercise 2, were you decelerating before jump #3 to cue the turn to #4 or maintaining motion and moving laterally to cue #4. Out of all the drills, I think 2 looks the most difficult because of the dummy jump restricting how soon the handler can begin lateral motion towards #4.
I hope poor Mickey is o.k. Seizures are so scary.
I've worked on this sort of exercise at class before though it was a variation where one tunnel entrance was in line with the straight line of jumps and you had to take the other tunnel entrance. I had to pretty much come to a complete stop before jump #3 in order to get his attention and redirect it onto the correct tunnel entrance. I've also done exercise #2 and again the only way I was able to get it was with acceleration towards #2 then extreme deceleration before #3. I don't think I had to come to a complete stop for the Exercise #2 scenario but had to be careful about timing the lateral movement to #4 because too much movement, even laterally, cued the tunnel.
Sorry about Mickey! I had forgotten that he suffers from a seizure disorder. I hope he's doing better today.
OOOH poor Mickey, that is so scary.
As far as those sequences we just had a lesson on transitions, from handler focus to obstacle focus and I was working through some old clean run articles and exercises about transitions by Stuart Mah, I bet it is a problem of timing when Miley needs to have the information to switch from object focus---going down the line of jumps and continueing on the line she sees, and letting her know, HEY, time to start paying attention because I have vital info to let you know about where we are going. Deanna and Stuart Mah both said that if you hit it too late it is like if you are going in a car at 70 and then someone screams you have to turn. You eventually would end either end up ignoring them or riding the break when you drive with them. Seems that all dogs have different places they have to know that and switch to handler focus with more eye contact, deceleration, a change in your tone and a change in your body language, I am really trying to work on this right now and am finding it fascinating, , and of course every one of my dogs has trouble with that not going right in one form or another way more often then I would like, LOL.
Sounded like you had quite an eventful day!
I find it hard to turn the dog once they been through the tunnel. I have to work so hard to pull them away.
Sorry to hear about Mickey. Hope he will come out of himself soon.
I'm sorry about Mickey. Seizures are terrible!!
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