Here's Payton, Georgie, then Auggie who fails at the whole "stall" part of this game LOL. But he's adorable and I don't really care. Seriously for like ten minutes he jumped back and forth over me and I laughed the entire time. Also he totally whacked me in the head with his paw. And I still laughed.
Very nice!!! I should totally add that as a reason to teach a backstall. A workout for you and your dog!! I also love how Payton and georgie were like, hey this is cool, I get treats.
I decided to try this:
He kept wanting to lie down and say hi. I might recruit my husband to help me although he won't want to be in any videos.
Also, since the report card that came home with Maisy the last time she boarded anywhere said MAISY LOVES TO JUMP I decided to try this... and I learned that luring a dog into a back stall is very, very difficult by yourself.
Again, I may try to recruit my husband to help.
Go Squash!!! He's so stinking adorable it hurts. Maisy is so excited, I love her enthusiasm! Yes, helpers are great in the first stages, but fade them quickly otherwise you'll have a heck of a time fading them later. Two or three reps from the helper generally gets the idea in the dog's head.
Here is Cohen and me doing some really halfhearted back stall work. I full admit it's pretty lackluster. She was pretty distracted and neither of us were really feeling it. But I took a video anyways. The idea is for Cohen to be a fair distance in front of me, scoot backwards between my legs and then do a back stall followed by a beg or spin.
But her scoot has gotten pretty lazy/messy lately, so we're going back to basics.
Also, wish I'd chosen a better angle. :v
Very nice!! I do a scoot to a backstall in Zuma's routine. Such an easy set up for it.
Okay guys, I'm really stuck on how to do the vault with B. I'm working on getting him to jump up on my lap and land out/away from me. I assume reward placement is essential here but he still tries to cheat down towards my hand which I hang low at my side. Any tips? Should it be super clean before I start to lean against the wall? Am I missing a step?
Meanwhile, the back stall progress. BTW we're in pain after today. LOL The dogs were sloppier, I think they were tired, and we were pushing for doing it on our own without a spotter/lurer so that surely doesn't help.
First off, tell Denis to spread his legs, one in the front the other in the back. That should help him from shifting his weight forward when Sloan jumps up.
The video of Backup seriously made me laugh! He reminds me of Zip Tie, all fumble but trying so dang hard.
With the rebound, which is what I'm assuming you are talking about in regards to the treat placement, unless you are planning on teaching him to catch a disc with it? A vault is where they use your body to jump up to catch something, a rebound/fakey is where they just jump off your body. You want it fluid before you move to the wall that's for sure. Clean? I would have to see it. Reward in your lap and then toss the treat to the ground for a few reps, then fade out the reward in your lap and only reward on the ground. He should start to jump up with the intentions of jumping off right away pretty soon and then it will become more fluid.
Here we go! The beginnings of a foot stall. This is probably Cohen's 3rd or 4th session ever. She's been having trouble finding her footing, but she managed to find it in the stalls in the video.
There's a bonus Megatron segment in there too, which was a spur of the moment thing and was her first session ever. She may get trained to foot stall too, but she has a bum knee, so I'm not so sure.
Also, I'm doing it on my bed because my back is hella sore and bruised from laying on the ground trying this two days ago.
You guys and your shin training. Much braver than I, that's for sure!
It looks great!
Session two of the rebound training. Let me just say that the chair thing really works! Both Pirate and Bayleigh got the hang of it quickly. Pirate's video will be up as soon as I upload it.
Toss that treat to the ground so she lands facing away from you, both dogs! It should be a complete circle.
Amber those look great! I have noticed if you throw the treat to the ground where you want them to land it really helps their head placement and fluidity of the jump.
This!
I finally got to a computer & could watch Art's videos! What a superstar!!!
I love how excited everyone is about this! These last weeks have def. been the most popular ToftheW's! It's AWESOME!!!
Cross & I have been working on foot stalls. Very slowly. I'm not sure if it's my inability to put my legs right but it just seems like he has to jump quite a distance to get up there! Or it's just my perspective, but it seems really high!! And when he dismounts he likes to come forward and use my body as a stepping block, and that's not cool.
We have been doing lots of practicing jumping onto a narrow stool thing, which has helped his balance considerably. (need to get an exercise ball!). He absolutely wouldn't get all four feet on it at first (I do have a boring video of that!) but what helped was putting the stool in between two "end tables" and just having him walk across, eventually asking him to wait on the stool and making the distance from the table-stool-table wider and wider. Then asking him to jump from the floor.
We're actively working on a one footed foot stall where I'm on my side. Hopefully a video to come as soon as we start to make some progress
It is really high. You can lower your legs when you ask for the off and make it less difficult for him.
I can't wait to see the one-footed footstall! That's on my to-do list eventually.
Ok, trying something new... backbend overs!
LOVED this!! Way to get creative!
So it's rainy outside today, which forced us inside, which led to an epiphany about using the futon to help me lure Maisy by myself. She learned getting her front feet up almost instantly, but isn't quite grokking getting her rear feet on me, too. She mostly just.... stretches out. So I suppose if nothing else I've invented a new way to stretch her before a run.
This is what I normally recommend when people are struggling with any kind of stall, start on a couch and lure them that way. It's looking good!!