Sooo, I tried Bob's suggestion. And she tried to get into heel position with her foot on my foot. I think I've rewarded the heel so heavily that she just defaults into it when confused. It was pretty funny seeing her try to figure out what I wanted - She just tried so. hard. and combined behaviors. It just didn't end up where I wanted it.
Then I decided to try to add a cue instead - bump her foot with my foot as a cue to step on it. That seems to be working pretty well. She has the idea to put her foot on my foot so it didn't take long to transfer that to *tap - pick foot up, place it on mine* and it seems to be much clearer for her. She readily responds to the tap now.
So now I'll practice this for a couple days, add in duration and then see if I can get her to keep both feet on mine at the same time
We haz a final video!! There was a slight bit of operator error in camera positioning BUT you can still see our feet just fine and it was footwork training Now to process and upload...
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We haz a final video!! There was a slight bit of operator error in camera positioning BUT you can still see our feet just fine and it was footwork training Now to process and upload...
And I learned a lot about mechanics of what I trained. It seemed so. simple. when I first chose what to do. And it was pretty straightforward, but there were quite a few more steps to get to the end result and it was more a bit more difficult for Kenzi than I had first imagined. I'll point things out after I post the video. ETA I'll have the video in that thread tomorrow! takes f.o.r.e.v.e.r to upload on my connection
-walking on my feet requires my dog to keep her leg at an unnatural angle ( I really saw this when watching the video) even when I pointed my toes in a bit.
-walking front to front was easier for her feet/legs, but required her to old her head at a different angle. It also made her crowd me which is a bit unnatural for Border Collies as a breed.
-I had to work on 3 distinct new behaviors and tie them together. Target my shoe, walk in tandem facing me, walk in tandem between my legs.
-my dog tries hard. I could see her getting stressed a few times when I hadn't broken things down enough/asked for too much too quick. but she'd always reengage as soon as I lowered my criteria/moved back a step in training
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