Yesterday was a beautiful day. I wanted to work on Miley's teeter. I ordered the DVD by Wendy Pape, "Teeters from start to finish". The only thing I didnt like about the DVD was somethings require your dog to be a good tugger. Not Mileys strong point. She will tug, just not in connection to agility. I know thats my fault but doesnt help with this video. Anyway the DVD has some really good information that I didnt think about. When Miley is leaving the teeter early, I thought she didnt like the tipping. But she will get all over a wobble board with no problems. The DVD talked about some dogs not liking the height of the teeter. So I thought I would see where Miley was with that. You keep the teeter so the board cant tip. Put the dog at the end of the teeter and reward with your hand under the board. Then take the dog off. I started this at home. I had the camera out but Im blocking the camera so you cant see what she is doing. The first time I put her on, you could tell she was scared and didnt want to go to the end. Once she got a few treats , she go over that pretty quickly. I also used Jen Pinder's teeter article in Clean Run, Nov. 2009 to teach her end behavior. So Im changing the end behavior , now she has to wait for a release. Before she was suppose to wait until the board hit and then she could leave. But she was leaving early. I then took her too the field and used the teeter there. It drops faster than my teeter and is really noisy.
I did work both sides of the teeter but took it out of the video. I just wanted to give you the basic idea.
Next we worked on weave poles. Im not sure what happened but she was really slow. I was using the Ready Treat because I wanted to work on distance but the box wouldnt open. I thought maybe because it was so sunny but when I got up close it wouldnt open. I tried it several times and Im not sure if the box not opening right away made her think she was wrong so she was slow. Or if something else was going on. We stopped working that. ( the remote for the Ready Treat needed new batteries. It works fine now.) Then we worked tables. I had one of those lint rollers with the tape on it. I figured I use it as a distraction. She goes crazy over that thing in the house. It was to funny, she couldnt have cared less when I got that thing out. It cracked me up. So much for distraction training. I decided to use the plastic bag with the treats in it as a distraction. I put it on the ground next to the table. She did pretty well but not perfect. The first time she got on the table, but then tried to reach over and get the bag and her front feet slipped off. She got the bag and back up and onto the table. It was to funny. The next time she was unsure and just got on with her front feet. When I said, "good girl" she got the rest the way on. Then after that she got straight on , even with the bag of food right in front of her approach to the table. I tried to load that video but it would load to YouTube. Im not having good luck today. Anyway the video showed poor training methods on my part. I need to remember to put her leash when Im thinking or setting up again. Ugh, she practice circling me several times at the table which I didnt noticed until I watched the video.
This morning I took a walk with the dogs. It was so peaceful and nice. I didnt see one person the whole time I was there.
I dont know whats with blogger but I cant get any more pictures to load. So I'll try tomorrow.
