Six New Titles!!!

Gimme has six new titles! They are:
ADP-1(Th), ADP-2(Th), ADP-3(Th), ADP-4(Th), ADP-5(Th), and ADP-CH(Th).  This gives her a total of 81 titles.

All Dogs Parkour created a special event for Themes titles, designed to be completed at home, so people could have something to do with their dogs during the stay-at-home orders. There were five levels. I learned about it late, so Gimme and I had to rush to get them done by the June 30th cutoff date.  Naturally as soon as I was ready to submit them, they extended the cutoff date.

I actually recorded them in reverse order. The higher titles required more unique behaviors, so I wanted to make sure I reserved our more behavior-rich themes for the higher levels. Before I started recording, I went through the entire list of ADP behavior descriptions to make a list of all those Gimme can do with no more than a warm-up. Plus there was the option to make up original behaviors. As it turned out we had twelve unique behaviors from the original list for all five levels.

LEVEL 1 - Pre-Remodel Kitchen video - I saved this for last as I prepared my kitchen for the remodel. There was a lot of clearing out of stuff and cleaning to be done. So knowing I had a deadline kept me working on the not-so-fun deep cleaning. I brought the rug in to give Gimme a safe surface (non-skid) to move around on. This was challenging to video because I had such limited space to work with and kept chopping my head off. Many behaviors were taped multiple times.

LEVEL 2 - Carport Junk video - See, there is a reason to keep junk. Who knew... I positioned my van alongside the driveway and stretched expens across the driveway so we'd have a secure "fenced" area to work where Gimme could be off leash. I used the door mat with the jumps so she could land on something safer and softer than concrete.

LEVEL 3 - Agility EFs video - While we can use agility equipment as Environmental Features (EF) for All Dogs Parkour, we cannot use them the way they'd be used in agility. Fortunately Gimme is both bold and talented, so it was easy to find unique uses. I love the way Gimme's tail wags outside the tunnel when we used it for a Get Inside. For this special event some of the usual behavior requirements were relaxed, which saved me on a couple things. In the Between (Backward), I needed to show Gimme was completely outside the Between EFs at the beginning and the end. I could tell she was, but the judge wasn't sure (you have to look at her left rear foot). Fortunately the relaxed requirements made it a pass anyway, so I didn't have to resubmit it.

LEVEL 4 - Chairs video - This is my favorite one, just because I enjoyed showing off my little Dalmatian chair. I actually used the Dalmatian chair to block Gimme from going under the brown chair when we did the Loops behavior. I didn't think it through and we had just recorded her Go Under with the brown chair and Gimme was just convinced she should be doing Go Under more. Note she also thought she should Go Under the chair when I was asking her to do Get On (4).

LEVEL 5 - Yard and Garden video - This was the most frustrating one to video. Almost all the stuff we used came out of my garden shed and had to be hauled to the front yard to video. Then it had to be put back when I was done, so it wouldn't be stolen. Because the LED screen on my camera is cracked, it was often hard to know what I had in the field of view. So, I had to haul all the heavy and awkward stuff out four times. I hope Gimme appreciates my efforts on her behalf. Normally Get Inside requires the edges to be at least hock height, but we were able to use the garden hose with the relaxed requirements. Note how Gimme leaps out like she has springs for legs. I was so pleased with her willingness to do a Jump (Assisted) using the lawnmower deck. This entry was the first time we ever did the Loops behavior, so I had to train it first (we also used Loops in our Chairs theme).

I hope you enjoy watching these videos; Gimme and I sure enjoyed creating them.