WeenSze & Duchess, Miniature Schnauzer 7years from Singapore

Playing much better this way! 🙂 Turns also quite good. But not always perfect. 🙂 Most important thing of all is to have a clear cue and to use it on time. For example at 3.35 you didn’t say anything until she was almost out. It is important for a dog to trust you that there will be no surprises. If they need to turn, they should know that in advance so they have time to prepare. So whatever it is you are saying, you can say it almost as soon as she enters the tunnel. With a larger dogs I will sometimes say it even before they enter.
She has a lot of fun so you can start mixing it with straight exits (just go go go) to really test her understanding. + you can spread some wings around the tunnel and start with a wrap on either one of them, so also the approach towards tunnel changes.

Not sure what you were trying to set up. This exercise was nice for speed after turns and general speed. If you use food throws, you can use the flow as well – when she goes to take the treat you have thrown, you can just turn around and run in the opposite direction, making the next repetition without stopping. While she follows you she can do the last jump as the first jump, tunnel and than wrap tunnel jump again.

If you were trying to set up what I suggested here: ” you can spread some wings around the tunnel and start with a wrap on either one of them, so also the approach towards tunnel changes.”

I was thinking something like this (just wings spread all around tunnel, making different wrap+tunnel combinations with different tunnel exits):

Is target new or have you worked on that before? What do you do on DW with her when running a course?
In general it looks like she has very good understanding so far. If that is her first go with the target, slowly progress towards running alongside, and including other obstacles before and after the target to get as much speed as possible.

See-saw – not really bad, but could be better. 🙂 She is stopping a bit early, but it is a good sign that with repetitions she is actually going more and more towards the end, which means that she doesn’t mind what happens that much and she is just getting more confident. But still, teaching her to be more precise wouldn’t hurt. You can use the target (different, smaller one) for that as well. Fix the see-saw and place it on the target. And have her run all the wait to the end and wait for you and her jackpot there. Than just take her in your arms and place her on the ground again. This “jump on” game wouldn’t hurt as well.

It looks good, first she was a little bit reserved, but she continued really well. Now try to teach her to run to that target on her own, while you stay behind her. First you can both start in the middle of the see-saw, so she only has to do the second half independently. When she is fine with that, place her further and further behind. And I would reward more in position. With several rounds of treats and a lot of excitement.

Nice! I don’t think she will jump, because she knows reward is coming. But if you are really worried you can put an agility table where see-saw ends, so she doesn’t have to jump to the ground, but has a middle step. I would do exactly the same for couple more sessions, see if you can get even more speed. She is actually quite good at not looking back until she reaches the target already. 🙂

No worries, I know life is crazy this time around. 🙂 I think she had quite a nice attitude and good starts, but she couldn’t really develop a lot of speed, because you made the sequence pretty tricky 🙂 with that pull in after tunnel and also – that DW there was a distraction. So perhaps next time you are training something like that, put something on the up plank of the DW so it is clear she is not supposed to take it. I mean, choices are part of agility, but if you have to pull the dog away from some obstacle all the time, it is generally a speed killer, so I try to avoid it at this point. Also if everything goes well, I wouldn’t repeat it so many times. Perhaps you could repeat the sequence once to get that “I know this, it is easy” attitude and better speed, but than change something sightly. Of what is even better – go train some specific element, like weaves or see-saw, but after a long break. The point of all in is not to make it a long training, but to really give everything into one (or two if they are short) sequence(s).

Nice job! I really like how eager she is to start, and how well she plays. Speaking of playing, try to get down on her level when you are giving her treats from the bag, so she feels like she can enjoy the “pray” that she just caught. If you reward from the hand, it is no different to a traditional reward. At this point, she is so eager, that it won’t stop her from playing, but pretending like the food pocket is hers to enjoy and just assisting her with it will give her extra pleasure.
Another thing I noticed are starts – she is so eager she is not holding her stay very well at this point, so I suggest the following. Either start directly from excitement/barking, without asking for stay or start with a proper stay (but I have a feeling you will have to practise it “dry” first). When you start somwhere “in between” it is not the best, because you don’t have real advantage to “pull” and you are also releasing to avoid an early start and not when it is actually appropriate based on her focus and anticipation. So when you are just playing with the pocket, introduce a “ready, steady, stay” game. First get her excited, than ask her to stay and walk away. As you are walking away, keep talking to her. With a voice full of expectation, but at the same time you can remind her to stay… “ready… stay… steady…. staaaay… GO”. If she breaks the stay, just run back, ask her to stay again and repeat. Keep doing so until she stays (but at first you don’t need a huge distance). Let her learn that no staying means no chasing. But do it without agility obstacles on the way, so she doesn’t also learn that going through the jumps is a bad thing.

Overall she did well, I think her speed was really good, especially in the beginning. But chaining didn’t have the effect of making her faster and faster towards the end (I think because she was getting tired), so I would try it with breaks next time. Each time 2 repetitions and than a break. If you have another dog you can play with that one in between, to make her a bit jealous so she is pumped up when it is her turn again. You can make 3 sessions with 2 runs each. We will see how that goes.