11/26/24 Robious athletic field
- Maureen Woolley, Duck & River
- Nov 28, 2024
- 2 min read
Videos:
T3: Only part of start, look in the upper right of video. The camera fell and most of the track is not viewable
Above are Tracks 1-3 using S3W8F4 at Robious athletics fields on 11/26/24 under partly sunny skies, 68F 31% humidity and wind gust of 8 mph on short dry grass.
Pretrack- tried water offering with treat, no interest and dumped the water no treat given.
Goal is to keep a straight spine on the track and for me to stop moving when her body changes from tracking on the actual track behavior.
T1-T2 River moved quickly to the start article and she downed to indicate at both starts. I probably did not deliver the treat quickly enough. I am going to tape the Velcro on the vest pockets as my gloves grab onto it.
She started on the track pretty quickly and was moving forward at a nice easy pace . Noticed that the wind gust started as we got to the start. She did move to the right of the track so down wind by about a foot. If it cut out she was closer to the track proper. River downed for all the end articles.
T3- Kids were biking around the field prior to us doing this track. They must’ve moved the start article about 15 ft from the flag. Anyway, debate how to do this track as the flag was without an article. River just started right out on the track and went to the article, downed to indicate, treated her, she continued on and I picked it up. She worked the rest of the track sort of going a little off to the right, downwind.
I was happy with her tracking and extremely pleased with her down indications and looking back to me.
Not sure what our next goal is. River has now done S3W8F4 on four tracks so I feel I should increase the pattern.
- I am tempted to do a turn but I don’t want to jump ahead of what my instructors think are appropriate.
Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!
We also did walk a round and place the article game, and River found it and downed.
love the prompt down at the article, good for you maureen!! your food delivery is fine, she knows it is coming. and she is doing so well moving down the line. embrace the new SWF pattern, see how that goes. you and judi can talk about adding a turn on tuesday.
Once the dog has met criteria on a given pattern twice (no excuses, they must meet criteria), then change the pattern. There’s a blog on this. If you habituate a pattern when the pattern is broken the dog is disappointed, and disappointment is punishing (in the behavioral use of the word, not the common use). So 4 times? Change something. S3W10F5 sounds good.
As far as the missing start article (and I know I’ve said this at least 2000 times) until 10 years ago there was NO start article for TD. None. And dogs did fine. The start article was added NOT to help TD dogs, but to see if it would increase the pass rate for TDX. It …