The Labraventures of Carbón, Spanish (ex-) foster dog extraordinaire
- Thread starter Emily_Babbelhund
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Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
It's Wednesday SD Training video time!
Great work
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
Finally I find some amigos to play with at the beach, then that mean ML makes me get back in the car. One hour running in the water is NOT enough! I do not care if it is getting dark! Pfft! This Spanish gentleman is going on strike...or no, mejor, even better, I will make The Pitiful Sad Face. Do you not feel terribly sorry for me?
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
Oh Carbon , how cruel is your Mummy , I will come an play as soon as I can , licks from Reubs x
- Location
- South Manchester England
Sorry sweetheart, but a labbydor that is that wet has just had fun, fun, fun 
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
Oh si, Reuben, si. She is so very cruel. Mira, look, she does not even let me share my adventures here anymore very often. No, no, it is all work, work, work for me. I am so very sad. All alone. Only Oscar the Flea, Monkey, Piggy, Llambie Llama, Bunny, Rose Bunny and my poor donkey who only has two legs and thinks he is a horse. Oh, and there is mi pequeno amigo, my little puppy friend Syd who escapes into my garden every day to say 'hola'.
You see what I mean...VERY LONELY. VERY SAD. Today ML did not even give me my second breakfast. Life is unbearable.
Please come and save me. We will have adventures and eat crabs like the good old days. Que bien, how happy we will be!
- Location
- Buckinghamshire UK
Senor, I would come and save you but it izz the same here. Mum has to stay indoors for 12 weeks!!! We get one walk with dad who is no fun. We don't know what we have done wrong! We are getting fed up with each other. Set us free!!! Dad says it is to keep mum safe so I think that is ok.
Toby.
Toby.
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
I am gettin bowad of the same woks ova and ova and ova agen. I just wanna go to beeeeeech!!!!! Let me wun fweeeee
Oweo (the weally bowad one)
Pee Ess, Carbon u iz lucky to go to beeeeech!!
Oweo (the weally bowad one)
Pee Ess, Carbon u iz lucky to go to beeeeech!!
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
Oh, my little Spanish amigo, we are all in the same situation, I fear. Maybe Reuben can save all of us? Or his sister Nelly as I suspect she is the family mastermind. We must think carefully. You have to keep your Mama Lady safe and you do not want to leave home FOREVER, but maybe just a leeetle trip to eat crabs on the beach?
Hola Oreo! You are absolutely right, I IS lucky, tengo mucho suerte. On the other hand, missing my second breakfast is unforgivable, no? You have a nice young señorita for a Mama Lady and I cannot imagine that SHE forgets your second breakfast. Clearly MY ML is going senile. Very sad indeed.
Pee Ess, I will ask Reuben to break you out too. You and Lily and Windy Windsor can come to the beach with us and eat crabs. Si, si! A plan is coming together!
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
I gets too breakfastes when I goes to wurk wif mummy. I will be sikk in the car in protest if I donts get fed erlie enuff.
That sownds bwillint. I shall tell lillee (@Jacqui-S) to pak her bags as we is cumin to CornedBeefWall to beech wif Roobin and Nelly, and of course, you, Señor!
- Location
- Andorra and Spain
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
It's SD training Wednesday!
This week we're working on part one of "Out of Sight". Eventually the goal is that Carbon stays in a settle even if I leave him and go 'out of sight'. The first part is taking steps away and towards him, first directly backwards and then sideways, maintaining eye contact. Then I do half turns, briefly breaking eye contact. Finally I do full turns.
This week we're working on part one of "Out of Sight". Eventually the goal is that Carbon stays in a settle even if I leave him and go 'out of sight'. The first part is taking steps away and towards him, first directly backwards and then sideways, maintaining eye contact. Then I do half turns, briefly breaking eye contact. Finally I do full turns.
- Location
- Herefordshire, UK
Great stuff Emily --- I love SD Wednesdays!
- Location
- Cornwall , UK
Bless him, he is looking so good , shiny and fit , well done both xxxxxxxx
- Location
- East Sussex
Love watching these videos. I found it interesting that you haven't been told to release Carbon from his stay when you go back to him and also that you've been told to maintain eye contact at first. When I was training Molly to do this I deliberately broke eye contact as if I maintained it she saw it as an invitation to come to me whereas if I was looking elsewhere she switched off. I followed the Kikopup thing about having a release cue and building up to bouncing around saying random words which aren't the release cue. (I'm certainly not criticising you or your trainer - just interested in this as a slightly different approach.)
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
When I'm going back to him, he's getting his 'calm treat' which is petting instead of a food treat. It's like tossing a treat onto his mat to reinforce a 'go to mat'. The mat is where all the good stuff happens!
I did try to see what would happen if I snuck in a low value treat and it was one of the times he bounced up. So nope - we need to stick to just massage. I don't want to release him while he's getting treated, I want him to continue with a settle until I give him the release cue. He gets his big 'treat' after the release cue - playtime!
My understanding is you keep eye contact for the first stage (walking a few steps away and back) because this is an easier criteria for the dog. Then later you can break eye contact (the half turns and the full turns) as you build up difficulty. Maybe it's just breaking it down finer than you did with Molly? We're not to the point yet where I can bounce around and ask Carbon to stay settled. He'd go loopy.
Jacqui-S
Moderator
- Location
- Fife, Scotland
Was about to day the same.
He really looks fabulous
I remember our early exercise for this was to get dog to sit or lie, then circle around the dog ourselves, so rather than the Person breaking eye contact, it was the dog breaking eye contact. If the dog got up and circled round to watch the hamdler, that was a "fail", back to starting position, rinse and repeat. To begin with it was on nlead and at length of lead.
Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- Regensburg, Germany
We're training this (me going behind Carbon) separately and then will combine with the settle later. Our trainer REALLY likes to break things into little bits!