Time for a new to-do list!
1. take your dog to a city center, a store that allows dogs (pet store?) and on a train station
2. position yourself next to a high target and now only click for circling all the way to your leg (don't click for steps in between) - name it with heel for one side and something else for the other and have a dog follow your leg when you move in a circle around the target away from the dog - then tell him to come to the other side and have him follow the other leg. Use different targets, try it on a very low one too.
3. build your own cavaletti and walk the dog over it - you can use the drawers or boxes of appropriate size and height, put them in a row and walk the dog through, just as you can see on this video
4. try the other version of 2on2off (some already did that, I see): instead of having them go on an object and off, stop in a position and wait, let's try stepping back into 2on2off this time. Position your dog close to a low object behind his back, cue him "back" and reward for stepping on an object or trying to. Slowly, you can have a dog step on higher&higher objects, this is beginning of a handstand, but with young puppies, don't overdo the height. Instead, you can have them back up stairs for example, to challenge them some more without making it too physically demanding. You need to build balance and straight slowly enough for the dog to never be sore after. You can also teach them a "pee" trick: click when they heave one leg, searching the object - before they find it and name it, it's a fun one.
5. put your paw target on a drawer or doors or simply shape the paw touch to a drawers/doors and then select for stronger&stronger touches/pushes. The goal is to have the dog slam the doors or drawer with power, to teach them that they control the movement under their feet and the sound and that it's FUN - my favourite trick for a great see-saw!
6. don't forget on recalls and playing!!! Also, slowly add duration to a sit up, teach crossing paws with the other paw and fade the target, check if the puppy will stay in 2on2off position until "go" even with distractions (toys and food flying around)
Have fun!
Hi!
Here are our videos, sorry it’s in the last minute. I was going to upload them yesterday but the cam corder program was really slow, so I couldn’t get the films on to the computer.
Slamming drawer and door:
“Peeing”:
Handstand:
Heeling: (We’ve done this before, but for some reason I only did it on the left side, so we’ve worked much on the right side these weeks, and it’s almost as good as the left side now)
And we’ve added some duration to the sit up-trick:
I just remembered that I totally forgot to record the cavaletti, but we’ve been doing it almost every day and it’s been going well. She was a bit too excited at first but now she walks relatively nice across it.
Kaisa, your video reminds me we need to practice the heeling in some other locations besides our living room—like outside and even in different rooms. I get so focussed on trying to get the trick that I forget to vary it. We’ve just started a different height to pivot on… and Stella is the opposite, she is stronger to my right and not as confident to my left side…
With the close the drawer trick, I was now only rewarding the complete slams, but maybe I should keep rewarding the partial pushes too like you… because Stella is still not crazy about the slam sounds… so she is not enthusiastic about this trick yet!!!
Yeah, I really prefer to do tricks outside. You also get a bit of distraction training “for free” then!
Funny you say I reward partial pushes, I actually try to only reward when she slams the drawer, or at least pushes it somewhat hard, but it’s hard to click right every time 🙂 sometimes it looks as if she hits it hard, so I click, but then it barely moves! I guess I’ll learn eventually 🙂
Yeah, it’s hard… That’s why I love jackpots: you can decide on either to jackpot after that click or not when you already see if the push was in fact a strong one 🙂
Great job! GREAT duration on sit-up, very nice heeling, loved the peeing. She has great technique for a handstand too, just try to keep that hand closer to the wall, she could do it even better if she weren’t pushing into that hand that is so far from the wall. Closing drawers and doors looks great too, time to select for most powerful pushes, don’t click for the gentle ones anymore!
Thank you! Ok, I’ll definitely think about that! And oh yes, that’s really smart with jackpots!
now our report of lesson three. Heeling works fine in both directions, changing the direction works good too. “Two” is the favourite lesson for both, but we still have no release command. first our “two” looked like on the video of Gitte; forwards backwards etc.. then I added the treats flying out o their reach, and they catched suddenly what to do. Both stand and wait for the click, and wait that I give them the treat. So far so good, but espacially Feline thinks that my “ok” is just another trick I use to make her move, and because she gets the task, she is standing….Alice is a little better, but not really sure that she is allowed to move with my “ok”. Should I click for the ok-command?
Pee-trick works fine with both dogs and both hind legs.
Feline does handstand at the wall, Alice can do it free. She starts at the wall, but can let it go.
I tried the trick with holding a bottle in sit up position. Today I took a little rag toy. Alice knew very fast how to get it from the floor, and hold it with front paws, but we have no duration until yet. Feline holds it, but for her its not so easy to get the idea how to grab it, and come to the sit up position.
Slamming the door works with both dogs fine, but here is Feline better.She slams with flat out, against Alice, who did it more carefull, but is sometimes in danger to clamp one paw. But both have no problems with the bang.
Cavalettitraining I did with a ladder, and it worked fine with both dogs.
Sounds good! And yes, sure, you click for leaving on “o.k.” too! But you need them to leave on “go” so that you can click it 🙂 Maybe go back, make it easier, pair it with body language first to make them succeed so that you have something to click and then slowly minimize the body language?
Zushi does not like the slamming. But we are working on it.
That’s funny -- she is really trying NOT to slam it! Do you think it’s the sound or the movement that she does like? That way or another, I think we need to make it softer for her, she definitely doesn’t like it. What if you put a small board (maybe the one for cutting vegetables?) on the floor and put one sock underneath. Put the whole thing on carpet first, so that it doesn’t make sound and see if she is o.k. with touching that. Then try how she feels about it on other type of floor that make more sound. If she is o.k. with both, put two socks underneath and then SLOWLY go from there, eventually changing socks for a pen or something else that doesn’t soften the movement anymore. But I think the doors and drawers are too much for now, it’s really important to go slowly and give them time when they show any kind of fear or it can go worse.
This is a video from Zushi 4 months. We were traing the slamming already then.
And in this video we are doing excactly as you are writing about 🙂
One time she got afraid of the noise from the small board, and I was i need to lay it on a carpet.
So i think it is the noise, she is afraid off. She is not noise sensitive in other situations.
I would go back to that board yes, but put it on carpet and use something softer underneath and then slowly go from there. Is she around when you run agility with other dogs? Does she mind the see-saw bang or not?
I havent noticed her beeing afraid of the see-saw bang. but she mostly is crated if we run agility with the other dogs. This vinther we have been training in that training hall, were you was teaching i Denmark. And there is a lot of noise… I havent noticed her to be afraid there.
I will go back to the small board and do the traing on a carpet.
Well, that’s definitely a good news she doesn’t mind that sound!!!
Hi there,
This is the new video for lesson three. So far so good I think….
I dont have any slide draw in the house so I decided to change the draw trick for the trick “push the chair”. He doesnt have any problem with the noise but he is still confused and try to circle the chair.
We are still working on the handstand to be honest this was the first go for that trick…
Cool! Nice focus and speed! Heeling is great to your right side, but to your left side, you often click and reward before he is completely parallel and he has this tendency of not going all the way in a first place as he prefers to stay closer to that treat. It looks like you will need to reward from your left hand for left leg position. Then, slamming is a good exercise for timing: if you hear the slam before you hear the click, you’re too late with clicking! That was cool too, kicking the chair down! 🙂 Getting there with the handstand!
Thank you Silvia, I will try rewarding with left hand (I havent realized it till you mentioned it…). I have a question too!
After a few minutes training with him I change treats for toys and I play with him, now, the problem is that after that first session of games he doesnt want to come back to the treats he wants only to play. In this way, I cannot click and reward every single bit because then we have to break the rhythm of the training and if I offer him treats he refuses (he goes to a down position or start barking) till I start playing with him again…So When this happens eventually I have to stop training and back a few hours latter… Any advice with this?
Yes, you’re doing it right. When you switch back to treats and he starts barking, asking for a toy, just end the session and try again later. Eventually, he will learn that he can choose only between working for treats or not working at all. To speed up a process, you can spare the best treats for the time after the first play session and if he takes it, immediately go into the play again to make him see he just needs to take a treat or two and then the toy comes back too. But never let him choose -- that is, if he demands the toy when you offer the treat, don’t give the toy, but end the session and try again later. Hope that helps a little.
Thanks a million Silvia, It is very helpful as I wasnt sure if I was doing it right!
Sure, it was great idea!
We have fallen miles behind Mason was sick during lesson 2 and I was away this weekend, so we are so far behind, sorry for late videos!
Anyway in puppy lesson 2 we had some problems with the pivot…today we cracked it! We will have to get in gear!
httpv://www.youtube.com/user/laurajodiecharlie#p/a/u/0/5BZADZtJCKk
I don’t think we can see your video…
I can’t watch it either. Sandy told me you have to post it with “watch” in the link instead of “user”.
Great! What a nice and fast pivot! Can he do it in both directions?
So you can see it? Hmmm… I need to copy and paste the url on a new page to watch her YT channel.
Yes, me too 🙂
we are progressing slowly but we are moving!
for the “bang” Felix is still afraid of the noise of the doors when they grow.
I hope to make another video tomorrow with the other exercises
Don’t be that modest, you’re doing GREAT! And even if you didn’t, Felix is so cute that it wouldn’t matter! 🙂 The only problem is that your video stops loading at 1:12 and I can’t see the rest, no sure why… Others have this problem too?
I can see the entire video. Maybe it didn’t finish loading at the time.
He is sooo cute, I love his tail wagging!!
Yeah, obviously I was too fast 🙂 I can see it now. Looks good! How are other tricks going, we didn’t see Felix for a while?
Here is a second video, now it turns in 2 directions, but I am still obliged to help, but much less now than on the video.
I found how to compress my videos so I could put more often even if the quality is not terrible.
it still does not close the door because I went too fast, and he was afraid of the “bang”, I slowly resumed quietly but with the action of pushing
damn it’s the same beginning, I wanted to post a video when he pushes a door, well I’m wrong but after the video’s other exos
Great! Very nice 4in! Circling is getting pretty good too, try to fade the hand now by still helping him a little bit, but with an empty hand and more up in air and then from higher and higher (you’ll need to stand up at one point), so that he doesn’t have his nose in that treat that much. Bu things are definitely going in the right direction!
Update on this lesson 🙂
This time I took a different object for her to stand on. This dogbowl is much better: it doesn’t move under her feet. We have been working on this a few days, a few sessions a day. I am only clicking for counterclockwise now, but we got stuck. She wants to be in front of me, takes a step and goes right back to the frontposition. So now I (try to) reward her in a circling movement. And get to give her more clicks after that. She seems to be picking up the idea again now. Is this ok?
Cavaletti is oké. She kind of knows it with another ladder and bars on objects, but we never did boxes. Her first time on the video, making me proud :)…
Something went wrong with taping the 2on2off stays, but I did get to tape her handstand. She is almost tipping over now that that I click multiple times! 🙂
Slamming is oke too, but didn’t tape it yet. Seeing how she is slamming the pawtarget (and not afraid of the seesaw), I thought this was going to be a piece of cake, but she is actually kind of soft.
Switching the pawtarget from a small object to a fly-swapper really works a lot! That is a perfect and affordable paw-touch-target! :))
Idea came from Nancy’s video on page 3. Thanks Nancy!
Looks good! And yes, I prefer to get counterclock circling that way as the hand right in front of the nose all the time. You still mostly reward with her facing you -- try to deliver the treat when she is looking the other direction, like you do at 0:37. That teaches them that position is just as good as facing the handler. No problems with the rest, it’s very funny when she tries sitting in that box first, smart dog! For handstand, reward even lower, maybe just throw treats on the ground in between her front legs.
Hi!
We’ve put our training aside for the moment since it’s not going that very well. The main problem is not the training itself, it’s mostly everything else that is our problem. I was thinking if maybe it was okay if I could send you a private email with some questions about my puppy and pyrsheps in general? Since you have experience from several pyrsheps maybe you’ll recognize some behaviours in my puppy or something like that.
Hm, so sorry to hear that after how good it looked the last time! And yes sure, you can send me a mail, I hope I can help.
Thank you, I’ve now sent an email to Silvia.Trkman@gmail.com!:)