relearning dog agility at 8600 ft elevation (colorado, usa). trapped in running contact hell. replies come from @towardmountains
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today, with arya:
- discrimination between frontside and backside of jump; i would love this to be mostly verbal once we’re applying it at speed! she’s careful, doesn’t want to be wrong. need to keep this in mind.
- added verbal left turn to the mix in jump sequences. again, careful - the first time in-sequence she turned immediately before the jump, but she WAS responding to my cue, just needed a little more support to get over the bar.
- building value for keeping the bar up; her competition height is 16” and she keeps them up probably 85% of the time, but her brain goes to goo when i drop to a lower height. so i took them down to 8” and revisited babydog jump foundations only reinforcing reps in which she didn’t touch the bar.
- sloppy cookie jar games. i wanted to assess where she is with valuing agility/training because it leads to treats and is thus enjoyable, or if the treats on my body were mostly her incentive. she’s extremely food motivated so i suspected the latter. i was right; i removed my treat pouch from my body and while she could call off it to join me to play tug in the ring, she waited for me cue rather than offering to leave it. which is okay! i just need to go through julie’s program and take things slowly. i’ve been so inconsistent - caring about agility in bursts of a day or two and then not for months - i’m not surprised she doesn’t live for it.
- observed she’s immediately a little sniffy on her down cue for setting or resetting for sequencing work. she downs, but her mind wanders. she’s a nosey girl - endlessly curious about her environment - and having actual equipment in this field is brand new. so at some point, i do need to get my act together re: acclimation, engagement, and putting both of those on cue. right now i’m thinking I need to build the happy association with agility in tiny little microburst sessions over the next few months, and once she’s hype about it, introduce clear context cues to our sessions so she understands when she can get environmental and when that’s not appropriate.
- fortunately for us, the above issue is a stimulus control one rather than a fear/insecurity one, so i’m not worrying much.
I feel neutral about today’s session. She did great, my mindset is just wonky as I try to get back into this sport.
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