I'm still focused on getting the individual clips for our Intermediate-Advanced Skills entry. I believe I have all the intermediate clips (need to review them closely in case there is one I want to improve) and the usual bow. Now I'm trying to get the three advanced behaviors.
"West" video - This will be our alternate position behavior, which Gimme has to hold for 3 seconds. I'm using the wall as a barrier to help get the behavior, without fidgeting, combined with our "get-it" game. I'm not opposed to her using "otto" to get into position, but with the wall, I didn't want her to hurt her tail. She does create a steady drumbeat against the wall. For our last session, we played "get-it" without the wall, and doing variable positions. Without the barrier, it takes a bit of shaping to get her aligned correctly, since she tends to swing her heiney out so she can watch for an incoming treat. We also did some "back" with the treat tossed behind her. At the end I was doing "west", then stepping forward so she had to sidestep her rear to keep in position. Nice!
"Back" to target video - Here we did some warm-up for backing to the target. It's for the advanced behavior where she moves to "center", "backs" up 4 feet, and then holds position while I return to her and assume the position we were in originally. Gimme had a case of the fidgets to start with, but then gets better.
"Otto" with handler opposite video - She's still avoiding "otto" in this building, which is why she gets her best treats for it. I know she's not uncomfortable, since we've been seeing Dr. Powell, her chiropractor and because she does "otto" without delay anywhere else. She just has a negative association here, so I am counter-conditioning it. Her training toy has three "arms" and I fill one with peanut butter, which she enjoys extracting from it; she's learned to push down with her paw so it squirts out. J'Anna suggested I do two opposite moves while she does two "otto", so there wouldn't be a change to my motion. It actually worked well, but J'Anna pushed the photo button, so it wasn't recorded. I'll be interested to see how it works when we start with it next time.
"Back" back-chained video - I decided I was messing up and should be back-chaining this behavior. We started with a warm-up and then went to it. It seemed soooo much clearer to her - duhh. I also used her peanut butter toy, which proved distracting, so we had to move it further away. Finally we got a perfect one. Yayyyyy...
We are getting there - just two more advanced clips to do.
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