Poncho
Fionia Cup 2010
Home from a wonderful week on gorgeous Fyn. Similar to the previous Fionia Cup Tim and I combine agility with vacation. we rented a beautiful house with a location to die for: in a forest with no neighbors near by - just the kind of house we would love to live in.
Weave Poles and Contacts
Zap is now 15 months old and I started teaching him the 2x2 weave this week. He's almost weaving 4 straight poles, but I want to work more on entries and he's getting next week off -his brain and body needs a break.
Trialing Debut
Poncho had his debut trialing yesterday and I couldn't have been happier about his performance. Even though the weather was absolutely awful I was on cloud nine.
Manners Minder training session
After introducing the Manners Minder to Poncho's running contacts training, his rate of success has increased with 10 %! That is a pretty great progress.
Running A-Frame
Poncho's progress on the plank is amazing and I couldn't resist running him over the A-Frame. I wanted to see if he would generalize the behavior from the plank on to the A-frame.
Running Contacts 12: An improvement!
More videos. Definitely an improvement from session 11, but I still feel like the puppies would benefit from more groundwork without any height.
Running Contacts 11
Videos from our session 11. Notice the big difference between Poncho and Zap/Bob's performances. They have had the exact same amount of training, but Poncho has progressed through the initial stages much faster even though he's been retrained - talking about an operant dog!
Running Contacts 6-10: Reevaluating
I been doing a lot of thinking concerning our running contacts. Lately many people have been blogging running dog walks and whether or not the handler is fast enough to handle a running dog walk.
Running Contacts 1
I decided to defy the snow and went out to train the dogs. Because off the snow our running contact training has been proponed with almost two months, but I decided it was time for our very first session today.
Running Contacts 3: Manners Minder - Yes, please!
Did our third running contacts session today, and I do spot a trend I really don't like. Both Zap and Poncho anticipate where the reward is coming from, therefore they look over their shoulder to spot it. This means they aren't running at full speed across the plank.
Running Contacts 4: New Plank and Location
Just had our fourth session. Bob's second to be precise. Thought I might as well generalize the behavior from the beginning to other planks and environments.
To Fail Or Not To Fail?
We continued our weave training in a new environment today. We went to the LaZi course to change the scenery but not adding any over exciting element. Susan Garrett says at this point it is important to let the dog work through what ever difficulties he may have and him figure out the solution on his own.
