📦 Side Steps in and out of a Box 📦
Living room fitness at its finest only equipment needed is some recycling!
Works the abductor and adductor muscles in the shoulder, increases body awareness and flexion and extension of the forelimbs.
This is one of the exercises that we will work on in the Virtual Summer Fitness Class!
More info and links to sign up in the bio!
Good boys who have eye drops get crack baby food as consolation.
Trickmas Day 23- Crossed Paws
This was a new one for us and I’m happy with how far we got. I love his fancy paws! We will keep working to fade the target more!
How are we almost done! Don’t forget to tag myself and Emily (@mischiefandmanners ) and use the hashtag #FMMTrickmas23 so we can follow along with your videos.
Trickmas Day 17- Side Step
Stepping sideways together 😍
Having trouble? Check on Emily for more beginner version!
Can your dog move sideways? Don’t forget to tag myself and Emily (@mischiefandmanners ) and use the hashtag #FMMTrickmas23 so we can follow along with your videos.
Trickmas Day 6- retrieve
It is a Christmas Miracle Lela taught a retrieving trick. Brimir brings me a tissue which I really needed for my funky allergic reaction I’m dealing with.
I can’t wait to see your dogs bring all the things! Don’t forget to tag myself and Emily (@mischiefandmanners ) and use the hashtag #FMMTrickmas23 so we can follow along with your videos.
Trickmas Day 5- over/jump
Oh look another trick where Brimir can throw his body around. Here he jumps over legs and arms.
I can’t wait to see your dogs jump around! Don’t forget to tag myself and Emily (@mischiefandmanners ) and use the hashtag #FMMTrickmas23 so we can follow along with your videos.
Trickmas Day 1- Target
Targets are the foundation of so many other tricks on this list so let’s get started! You can work on any type of target you want. Maybe look ahead and see what you need to solidify for later.
Brimir the Christmas Elf is here to demo his nose, chin and paw targets. He even rings our festive doorbell.
If you are struggling with a harder trick, remember good foundations make it easy to transfer a skill to a different prop or context.
I can’t wait to see your tricks! Don’t forget to tag myself and Emily (@mischiefandmanners ) and use the hashtag #FMMTrickmas23 so we can follow along with your videos.
It’s TIIIIIME
Emily @mischiefandmanners and I have come together for the 4th year of Trickmas!
This year we have returned to our traditional format with 24 tricks that can be adapted to multiple levels. I’ll be having fun with Brimir while Emily teaches new puppy Mulder new tricks, literally.
Stay tuned for the trick list and contest details November 30th.
Who is excited!?
#FMMTrickmas23
🚨 My dog ate treats at a lure coursing event 🚨
This may seem dumb or simple for most people, but man have we have struggled. Brimir has always been quick to over arousal and the inability to eat food. For about a year, if we went anywhere he wouldn’t eat. It didn’t matter how high value, the rest of the world was way too exciting. This obviously makes training difficult!
He has taught me a ton about just working on the behavior of eating food in hard places,m: managing arousal levels, using patterns to encourage engagement and utilizing alternative reinforcers like smells. It hasn’t been easy and I have been incredibly frustrated the past year feeling like we ‘should’ be doing more.
He has started consistently eating in some exciting places (the beach and rally class!), but today to have him take food at a lure coursing event with the machine running and dogs nearby was just magic.
If you’ve made it this far, all that is to say we struggle too, adolescence sucks and I honestly felt like we would never ‘do’ anything. But hey I think we might.
Maturity is (finally) starting to look good on you 🌊
Working to make the slow sniffy game more fun for fast boy
Working on spirals for Rally!
This week in Rally Skills students learned how to apply the turning in heel skills we worked on to a few signs.
Easter Egg Hunt!
The big yellow egg has Birch in it and all the dogs took a turn. Some were better than others. Some would have rather peed.
Hope my Nosework students have fun and do this today! Anyone can do it with treats inside too!
Happy Easter!
Social media tends to be a highlight reel of all the fun and good stuff, but living with a high drive adolescent dog isn’t always butterflies and rainbows. Living with any adolescent dog isn’t always fun.
There is so much good in this clip. My dog that would not eat food in new places is taking food. He is able to disengage from a friend running agility and his aunt boofing at him behind the camera. He is able to engage and preform a hard behavior (heeling) for short spurts.
It would be tempting to cut out that last bit and say ‘oh he was so great’. But I want you to know I deal with it too. Do I get frustrated; yep. Do I sometimes feel like I’ve failed; oh yes. Adolescence sucks but it does get better and all of these little glimmers make me hopeful of what dog he will be 6 months, a year, 2 years from now.
All that to say: I feel with you, I got you we are in this together 💪🏻
Just my trash bag loving dog working for a toy I made out of a trash bag and a tennis ball.
He’s seriously never works for a toy with such enthusiasm and for so long as he did for trash 😂 mind blown 🤯
A little exercise from Intro to Nosework!
Using switch boxes from the hardware store, we are building a few skills:
Duration nose hold alert- that last rep was chef’s kiss.
Work to source- the odor moves around the grid and he has to get to the highest concentration of odor.
Notice how much reinforcement he gets when he finds it! Building value in a random scent on some q tips.
A major goal for 2023 is to offer more Nosework. I love teaching it and it’s beneficial for so many dogs. There will be more group classes, Drop in Puzzles and Private lessons available.
Trickmas Choose Your Own Adventure Category 5: Handler’s Choice
On the Last 5 days of Trickmas Emily and Lela gave to me whatever the heck we want to do!
Here are a few of our favorite tricks.
Gus is Shy and takes a quick nap.
Amelia runs around a tree and jumps over my arm.
Winston does Leg Weaves but we all know he would rather Middle. He also does some bouncy spins.
Brimir yells a lot? He is in a mood. He yells while he weaves and crawls. Does something resembling a roll over and his spins become loudly flinging his body. Fun.
Wait to the end for a special bonus puppy.
Can’t wait to see what you guys do! Remember to use the #fmmtrickmas2022 and tag me and Emily (@mischiefandmanners) so we can share your videos!
Sorry Facebook gives you full yelling since I can’t put music on it 😂
