Tricky T-day

For this bunch of tricky T-days I has suggested you work on tricks involving objects. I said I would post about free timing as a way of coming up with the tricks, so here you go.

Free timing where you gets to come up with your own tricks, it really give the brain a good workout but gets you lots of treats. At first it can be a bit confusing but I bet you'll all get the hang of it, then you get to feel really clever!



That me doing some free timing with an ironing board.
It easiest to start off with a box, but since I do quite a bit of free timing Mum had to try and find objects I had not used afore.

Here another one with some sort of foamy thing we found in the shed.


It kinda harder for your person to do this, because it make them practice their patient skills while they wait for you to figure things out, and decide what they want to reward (called shaping) into a trick.

Once your person has seed a behaviour they think would make a good trick, or start of trick they should stop clicking for anything else you do and click for just the thing they liked. This can be the frustrating bit for you as you might be thinking, like I do, 'Hey Mum! I did something then, where my treat be?' if it take you a while to repeat the behaviour your person should give you extra treats so it make you wanna repeat it again and again. Once you done the same thing about 5 times your person can finally say something. They can say whatever word they want the trick to be till you understand. It may take a few sessions/days to get the the stage where you have a trick, but it worth it! If the trick be something like my back leg lift you can transfer it to other objects, or no objects too!

As far as me and Mum can tell there two main ways to learn tricks. One be called capturing and one be called luring. Free timing be a capturing kind, apparently we dogs hold the learnings in our heads better when we learn through capturing, I guesses because it be a more natural thing for us to do and also we has learned it ourselves. As you can see from the video I really likes my back leg tricks, which we captured doing sorta free timing with a book, you can see that in a past tricky T-day. Luring be where you is coaxed into doing a certain thing, for my tricks we mostly use a mixture of capturing and luring.

Here some more videos of things that could (and sometimes have) be learned through capturing during free timing.

My bubbles trick



Some stuff from free timing with a box when I beed little and living in our old house.


Stuff on a sweet tin.


TaDa!

Does not be forgetting the competition part. I will pick my favourite object based trick from a months worth of posting (To give you time to figure one out. You don't have to use free timing to get it either) and you will get a cool goody bag. In it will be This book staring my Auntie. Some of my favourite tricky treats, some other tricky tools and some fun stuffs. So I hope you all play and that can be some incentive for you.

~lickies, Ludo

Exploring rocks

First, please go say happy barkday to my buddy Deacon!

Me and Mum went climbing the rocks round the head at the beach the other day. It be lots and lots of fun! So much new things to see and sniff and show off my good climbing skills! I so very agile! Mum tooked lots of photos and video so it might take a few posts to show them all off.

We played wubba a bit firstly of all.

Here be some piccures without me in. You can get a feel for how cool the rocks be! They very fun and exciting to climb. We not usually get to go on them. You has to get the tide just right or they be too slippery and if you go too far round when it out then you can get stuck.


Mum has a new obsession with finding sea glass, so in her never ending BORING quest we is travelling to different parts of the beach. She did find some good sea glass here, but also had the camera out lots. I not sure which be more annoying! She keep wanting my attentions to take good photos, but Mummmm there be so much to look at and do! I practiced being siberian at first.






But then sausages woned me over.



Now, i knows some of you. Hamish, at least, will appreciate the geo-geometry? omogy? The er- rocky-ness of these particular rocks.
These be a sandstone type of rock and they change lots all the time cos they get bashed about by the harsh sea a lot. We found some cool rock patterns, when Mum beed in school she first comed here with grandpawents and she tooked some piccures of some of the erosion (Does that really be a word Mum, you not making it up?) to show to her teacher cos she beed studying it in school. I will show you some interesting erosion stuffs another day. The head changing all the time, it part of a thingy what some (Mum say silly, I say way pawsome!) peoples like to do called the coast to coast walk. Where they walk from here to the other side of England. Well anyways, they start off at the head but over the years the path keep having to be moved in cos it dissappear!

During victorian times these rocks be tooked away, that why they be such good steps now, where they beed cut up to make the houses in the village and near by. Including the churchyard we looked at at the first Ludo's lookings.

See them holes is from drilling.


Well, Mum complaining that her paws be tired. What a silly excuse. She say if I not like it I can just type myself.
Well ok! I wills!


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hmm, Maybe I had better post more about the rocks in the week.

~lickies, Ludo
pee ess, come back tomorrow for Tricky T-day. Does not be forgetting, anyone can join in at anytime, you didn't need to be in the current players list.

Pork shank - for Honey

If yous has squeamish pawrents/secretaries they might not want to look at this post.

Honey said she has never had pork shank afore, well neither had I. But I hopes I get it again! This lasted me a whole day and a half, with still some left on it, but it would probably not last that long for Honey. BOL!

I had it for my dinner, yous all thought that meats Mum brought home was treats, but it just my foods.

Anyway, here what I thought of the pork shank.

Gotta get the right angle for the teeths to work best.

Flossing

Srumylicious!

Pepe got some. He chew it with his gums.

Auntie Penny wented on strike and would not eat her kibbles. She sat and whined and whined at Mum to say 'can i have one too.'

No you casnot Auntie Penny!
Mum tried to give it to her. When she thought I had enough on the first day. But I showed Penny my very mean teeth and when Mum wouldn't let me get my own back I made nasty faces and annoyed noises!

When I had it again the next morning when I'd had enough I went outside to lay in the sun and then I let Auntie Penny has a chew on it. At first she beed afraid I would do tellings off of her again but Mum said it ok, so she had a good chew. Then she tried to go hide it so it got throwed away. :(

Not a bad technique for a beginner!

Mum say I has to post this to show you me being mean and very bad. But it show how very much I want it! When Mum make me sit down she pretends she gonna take my food from me. :( This beed when I first gotted it, the piccures above from after that and the next day. I calmed down about my delicious shank by then.



~lickies, Ludo

Tricky T-day Catch up and TCT!

About time I catched up with Tricky T-day huh?

Here a list of efurryone who done playings so far, with a little thingy on what they beed learning. I updating my side bar too, let me know if I missed anyone.

tRicky Ricky has beed playing and has some great videos up! Including tricks and agilities. Has a look at his first page for some great links to places to get trick ideas from. I currently learning one of Ricky's tricks, going backwards through Mum's legs.



Honey has posted lots of great videos, not only of her pawsome tricks, but also of how to learn clicker training. She and Hsin-yi be the bestest teachers and Honey a great inspiration to any dog who thinks they casnot do learnings. Honey has a Tricky T-day badge you can use too. If you want to link to Trick-T-day even if you not taking part you can use anyone of out badges.


Oreo and Misty be so very good at doing tricks! They has posted some very clever paw based tricks, not to mention all the others and learn something new nearly everyday it seem. They also has very fun videos to watch!


Mason Dixie posted a video of her catching her treats and a wooftastic video of her diving trick. So athletic! Such natural ability and something I cannot do at all! I too scared!



Khyra has played too. Check out her catching skills! Khyra's trick really show the great thing about tricks, treats! Haroo!


Last, but very not least! The pretty Katie has beed posting about how she getting on with her paw tricks. Katie a very good obedience dog, so that a good trick in itself. I casnot wait to hear more on your tricks Katie!



I thinks that efurryone, please let me know if I missed you. Also, if anycritter wants a badge like mine or Oreo's or Honey's made please do peemailings to Ludovanpup-at-live.co.uk

Now we all getting the hang of things I is thinking of spicing things up a bit. This month, in addition to any tricks you already working on you might like to try something called free timing. This basically just a trick with an object. In free timing you supposed to just come up with your own trick. It very good cos to start with you just get rewarded for everything. I will post a video tuesday to show what I mean. It easier to start with a box. Even if you does not do free timing you can still post a trick that you can do with an object. Any object you likes.

At the end of the month I will send a goody bag to my favourite object trick and you can be trickster of the month and choose the next kind of trick for us to all work on. Have fun efurryone!

Don't forget, if you add a tricky t-day label to your tricky t-day posts I can link right to them.

Oh yes! Cats can do tricks too. Pepe can do a sit, but that cat not Pepe.

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Now for True colours thursday!
I missed quite a few of these! Today be Navy, here what I found out on my walk.







Tada!
Lickies, Ludo

oh! Pee ess!
I got this very nifty award from Dennis while I beed away.

It meaned a very lot to me and Mum, thanks so much Dennis and Dada!

Cap, A tribute

This post about a special doggy what my family loved called Cap.
They only owned Cap for about 3 years but knewed him much longer. He belonged to friends of grandpawents, the man friend beed a vicar and one day after he retired they found they had to move into a flat. Cap was quite old and deaf and very scared of lots of things so they asked my grandpawents if they would look after Cap for them. Of course my grandpawents knew and loved Cap so they said yes right away.

On the 30th of June last year Cap had to be let go to Rainbow Bridge, he beed 14 and a bit we think. His kidney's not beed working anymore and it beed time to say goodbye to him. We meant to post this on the 30th of June but as my computer beed poorly at the time we could not, so here it be now instead.

Cap had a very eventful life. He started off as a working farm dog and beed from the Cap line of WSD (working sheepdogs) which be very famous good dogs apparently. After some time Cap started not working well, so he was not treated very nicely. He beed left outside tied up with a cart to shelter under and the local children would apparently tease him. (this made Cap very frightened about food).

One day the RSPCA comed and rescued him from the farm and they found that be be going deaf and that why he could not herd sheeps anymore. When he be at the RSPCA our friends founded him and adopted him. Cap went deafer and deafer and had lots of psychological problems, like running off to find sheeps and stuffs and being scared of lots and lots of things and being funny about eating foods.

One day he runned off up the cliff near where we live. It so happen that it be something called 'foot and mouth' in this country and so it not be allowed to go find him at all. Cap beed lost for 8 whole weeks when a mountain rescue dog in training found him down a hole. By this time his owners had given up home of ever getting him and so they had adopted my bestest friend Sally too.

The being missing for 8 weeks and surviving down a hole made Cap famous. He got to go in lots of papers and stuff and became quite the celebrity here. We first met him just after that. Here be one of the stories.

When grandpawents owned him Mum helped him to learn some signs, she teached him sit, give paw, lie down, and come. He liked to be stroked lots and lots, especially on his face. He liked cuddles and to eat sweet things.

He got lots better with taking food off peoples and being watched while eating and he liked to be comfy. He never used to play with toys but if Mum got down and pretended to be a doggy he would jump around and play with her like that. He loved Mum lots and she beed sad when she moved out and that he died while she not beed there.

Lucky I got to meet him a couple of weeks afore he died when I beed just a little pup. He beed very nice to me.

Oh yes, he liked to eat bunny poo!

Bye, bye Cap. Hopes you having fun at Rainbow Bridge and showing all my DWB friends what has gone that way all the nice things there be to do there.
~lickies, Ludo

Tricky T-day

Hello, it be tricky T-day! I has not done all the things I wanted to for it cos Mum be poorly sick with a cold. I has beed helping her get better by giving lots of cuddles so's she can feel well enough to take me to agility tomorrow.

I going to link to efurrypup properly for Thursday now instead, for now, here be a video of some of the tricks we be working on at the moment.

I casnot wait to get round to see what you all been up to for T-day!

~lickies, Ludo

I did a little bit of crawl in there but Mum be naughty getting me to do that. We not allowed anymore, cos in my classes we learning distance downs for an emergency stop. Well everytime I went down I crawled forward till I reached Mum's hand. Apparently

I been to the vets

I is very brave. Mum says so.

I had my booster vaccination jab. There beed an emergency come in afore we got there so there be a long wait and efurryone was waiting outside, I met lots of different doggies, one little puppy chihuahua was only as big as Mum's palm. There also beed a big big ridgeback doggy.

Waiting outside made me forget lots of my nerves. I still snuggled up into mum while the mean old vet man poked and prodded me. The injection not hurt though. I weigh 12.9kg.



Come back tomorrow for Tricky T-day!

~lickies, Ludo

Changes

How did I gets brown on me? Well, Mum and grandpaw tooked all the stuffs out of her room. I thoughted, great! We living in the living room now, so that be good cos it nearer my food bowls. But then they put stinky colours all over the walls. They call it paint. Paint stinks real bad so I kept out the way most of the time. I only wented in once and I managed to get brown on me. Oh well. Mum has a lot of stuffs huh? I not allowed any of it, which not fair.

Mum had to move our room around to fit in all the stuffs from OD's. We got to sleep on the new sofa, which I not be allowed on, while the paint dried.
It beed like an adventure! Only it beed really really, very too hot here at the moment so Mum kicked me off after a bit.

The room all done now and it not any different to me, but Mum like it and say it feel more like hers now, (even though it really be mine) so if she happy, I happy. Here what it look like.

And here my blogging area!

Of course the biggest change be the one you knows about... Pepe!
Well, Pepe has gotted very unfairly and rudely spoiled. He not deserve it, cos he not upset at all about moving and has got right back into his old habit of ruling me with his strong paws.

This big hugeunormous box camed. A package for me! No Mum!? But all packages be for me!!

It all beed for Pepe! A little toilet house. And this cool looking giant stuffy thing. I tried to get inside but my shoulders got stucked and I could not get out! It be soo scary but Mum just laugh laughed at me. Horrible Mum.

Even Molly and Faline got stuffs. Like this little house, I so wanted it too. (See how stupid and moulty Faline look?)

Can you believe Mum didn't get me ANYTHING. Nothing AT ALL! I beed thinking right then that I might just hate Pepe if Mum gonna play favourites and get him and the rabbit-dogs cool things and not me. Then she went out. Outside without me. I cried for a bit, then barked angrily then was just about to send out an SOS to get yous all to call the RSPCL (Royal society for the protection of cruelty to Ludo's) When she comed back through the door.

With this.

Hurruff!
And.... Even better

Foods! I gots pork loins, ox tail, lamb necks, a whole pig shank to chew on. (carefully) and 3 different fishies

ah, all forgiven Pepe.

Even though changes can be confusing for a young little dog like me, I very glad these ones happened, I can tell Mum be a lot more happier and settled now all the stuffs with OD be over.
~lickies, Ludo