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Thanks! You and Lexi are looking good too!

Thank you. It was one of his best. Going out really early while it's still cool and not too humid makes a big difference in his speed!

Going slow is for sissies! 🤣🤣

I'm hoping and praying that my doer eventually becomes a thinker! lol. But of course not lose any of his drive and enthusiasm in the process!!

Thanks. It felt pretty special too.

+Pawsitive Vybe Thanks "Frisbee Guy" :=) I'm just having to learn how Dublin reads my cues because it is so different than how Toby has - maybe not dramatically different, but enough that I have to learn the subtleties! If I can explain it using the clock analogy, the intended obstacle is at 12:00. I'm at 9:00. Dublin is in the middle on the hour hand pretty much headed straight on to 12:00. The off course is usually at about 1 or 2:00 in his vision.. There is such a small degree of difference in my arm pointing to 12:00 vs. pointing to 1 or 2:00 that I think I'm pointing to 12 but he thinks I mean 2:00. I think (and I"m trying it out) that I don't need to be "pointing" at all in these instances but instead need to just keep my arm down and my shoulders pulling more straight on toward intended target - or even slightly inside of it. Always glad to have input! Still lurking some on the PV site and am hoping to extend our repertoire of throws and moves this spring :=)

I think it is not so much the angle as it is the "attack". He goes when you let the arm drift too long, probably thinks it's a get out -- looks like it to me -- and he takes the inside track when you, as the handler, motor through and don't let the arm tarry or hover towards the get out obstacle.

+Pawsitive Vybe You're pretty good at seeing stuff, huh! Maybe you should try to make a living at it. 😜 It so helps to have another set of eyes to help see things more clearly. I've been looking more for the direction of my motions and not as much the flow of them. Now new things to work on which is what i'm after. At the end of the video when I was backing up (on purpose) and he came towards me and then took a hard right to the aframe ... well that happened again this weekend except I wasn't backing up intentionally - it was just that I got stuck and couldn't swing out and turn like I intended (I'm getting old and slow!) and the exact same thing happened. I know I don't intend to do that move ever again! 😳, but I'm curious if you have any ideas on why he did that. Here's the video from this weekend - happens towards the very end - dog walk, around barrel, coming towards me behind the jump and makes quick, sharp turn right back towards dog walk ... ruclips.net/video/1XVEfBkFehg/видео.html

My dog isn't toy motivated either. I have used it to help him keep up his intensity when training agility. He has a tendency to be lazy - especially if it is a little warm, or middle of the day. He loves the ripnTug so I show it to him and then we train a sequence or so. Say we're going to do a sequence of 5-6 obstacles. He never knows whether we're going to do all of them and then I throw it, or I might throw it after the 2nd obstacle, or the 4th, or the 1st, etc. I really like using it to get him to drive to the end of the dog walk. Once he hesitates at the end I throw it and yell get it and he loves the game. So yes, I have definitely found it valuable. I even use it to feed him some of his dinner sometimes. He doesn't care what's inside, he just loves to rip it open and eat whatever is there.

Marcy Matties OK so when you throw it - does he bring it back to you and you open it and give a treat? Or does he open it where it lands or ??? My problem is my girl doesn't bring anything back :) I think it's going to be akin to throwing a treat but just super visible and I can control the landing better.

He does not bring it back. He opens it where he is. He has never been a "ball retriever" as it just wasn't something I was interested in doing. But while he is enthusiastically opening it up I am going TO him and praising him all the time. It is like throwing a treat but my purpose is in getting him to enthusiastically move on after whatever obstacles we have been doing. It is great for working distance - getting him to go on 2-4 obstacles away.