Saturday, January 3, 2009

Shaping the Ring Toss Game


Here's Bungee, keeping us busy round the clock!






The 1st stage of shaping was teaching Bungee (and Guinness) to pick up the rings. The 2nd stage of shaping was teaching them to place a ring on just the peg. The 3rd stage of shaping (in the video) was teaching them to place the rings, on the game, on the floor. Stage 4 is picking up and stacking all the rings in a steady motion, no matter where the game/rings are. (Which is where we are currently). Stage 5, if we decide to go that far, will be increasing the difficulty of playing the game to strengthen skills. However at that point we might also just prefer a new game! :-)) It is after all, just for fun!

My apologies for the little formatting glitch that is cutting off the right edge of the film.

Click here to go to our YouTube channel and see these and our other videos in their full wide-screen format, (we've added a couple new ones this week!) I also filmed weaves today & handling at the barn tonight, so lots more on the near horizon.



Until the next time, Happy Training...It's About Love!

2 comments:

Simba said...

great game! Will have to try this one!

Anonymous said...

Hi there!
Thank you so much for all you nice words! It was fun to debute with Ogin, he's a lovely boy, like all his sisters and brothers :o). My plan wasn't to start with him until this year but then that competition in Denmark turned up and I thought, "why not?" ;o)
The ring game was really cool, I will try that with my dogs as well. Bungees training videos looks so good, you two are doing a great job. Grandma, papa and brother are so proud! And thanx for the photos :o) Take care!