Im very happy with CeCe's progress today. I was struggling with the 4-on contact but Chrissy gave me an idea and now I can finally see the light! Although Chrissy's idea didn't go quite as planned (the board beat CeCe up a little bit lol), I think Ce dog now understands that I want her to wait until I release her!! I bet that 2o2o training we did awhile back helped beause she looked to be offering that some of the time, but YAY for SOMTHING! Now the hardest part is behind us we can go back to goofing off a little and just work on speed/ confidence, and contact proofing. I AM expecting another road block in her contact training when the teeter doesnt have anything to catch it (the table) because the grass will be beckoning to her to run on. I already have a plan for that though mua ha ha. Just no plan B.. Hopefully all goes well so we can finish this baby up before the CPE trial next weekend. (:
Im sorry I have been neglecting you. Its been over a month and I feel bad. But I really didnt find it necessary to make a post about trials when the youtube description explained the majority of my thoughts. And training sessions would have been boring for you because it was mainly just weave proofing and wraps.
But I guess I have more to say about wraps than just mentioning them, so quickly:
I know akc has a lot of wraps so I knew eventually I wanted to teach a wrap on command but when our latest nadac trial had a wrap in it I got motivated to begin teaching the command right away. I use the command "tight" and I give it to her before she is jumping so she has time to think and collect. Im still mixing it up being "tight" and "go [on]" so she doesnt lose her distance skills when I start hanging back. Bored yet? Good.
After training today. CeCe says yum?
Teeter training has begun and I frankly have no clue what Im doing but Im just going to smile and pretend I do. She is looking good for having a confused trainer, in my opinion! Well not completely confused, I am now spending each night going through training strategies in my head. Last night I only got a couple hours of sleep because I was thinking of a command for her contact and figuring out how I would go about changing her down behavior to a crouching target. I definitely make it hard on myself thinking of names for behaviors that are outside the usual. I dislike conformity and for some reason I do not like the word touch.. Her 2o2o command was "dos". Yup I had to resort to foreign language. You can imagine how I struggled with a term for her 4 on teeter behavior. I eventually came up with "stick" sometimes "stick it" because her teeter command is "tip it" (oh yeah Im on a ROLL with creative names aren't I?). haha
Since CeCe just got introduced to "stick" today she doesnt know what it means exactly.. And I was struggling with strategies for a held contact since this is new to me. For instance if you take a look at my video (Ill post it at the end) and look at 2:19 in the video, you'll see my face of confusion and awkwardness. Thankfully miss Chrissy came to my rescue with a strategy that may just work to help teach a better "stick". Ill try it out tomorrow and of course video!
