Need to get the newly revamped DW training (and last hurrah for the attempt to retrain Ten) documented somewhere. So here it is. Dry as dirt and not really meant for public consumption but I'll leave it unlocked and take the spamming anyway.
Puppy is doing well. He's onto leash walks and looking forward to being "freed" on Christmas Eve. I'm tired of listening to him whine and yell about being crated, but hey, that's part of the deal.
Puppy is doing well. He's onto leash walks and looking forward to being "freed" on Christmas Eve. I'm tired of listening to him whine and yell about being crated, but hey, that's part of the deal.
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I think. :-)
That's the cursory plan anyway.
When do you expect your dog to start responding to your position and no motion on a lead out? If you have a line of three jumps, spaced 18' apart and you stand at the wing of the last one - do you expect the dog to collect on the approach to #2?
at least i think thats what she said
Nice to know that Silvia is on that page as well - I'm planning on auditing her next RC class to see what her angle is, though I've been pretty happy parsing things out based on her original FAQ and a little help from Daisy.
They have 18-21 feet between 2 and 3 to sort out their jumping effort. An added stride between 1-2 is just wasted time. I discourage bounce jumping in any spacing that doesn't require it, so for my dogs typical jump spacing in any venue on a straight line would be a single stride.
Also, I would not necessarily expect true collection at 3 just because I'm standing still there and facing forward. I would expect true collection at #3 if I was on the landing side, in the landing space, forcing it or if I was facing the dog on the take off side of three using direct eye contact.
Now I have to go mess with this on jumps of course to see if I'm totally talking shit. ;-)
On the dw Kona gave me her collection behavior (two strides on downramp), not that there would ever be a scenario in trial where I was so ahead that I could come to a complete stop. She was probably just surprised to see me in front of her rather than exhibiting any understanding of the positional cue and lack of motion :)
I'll post my video of the girls - pretty interesting, including I may scratch this whole plan with Ten due to her ETS making it too hard for both of us.
More detail in that post.
I'll have to look for that. I'm not sure I think she "gets" the targeting part, since I've not made as big a fuss of that as perhaps I should.