Help? Organizationally Impaired

[k9 crazed]

Okay as pathetic as this sounds- I am having difficulty keeping track of the tricks we know and what I'm teaching and what I want to teach... Ugh, I just feel like I'm discombobbled! I've got two very differently abled dogs and two clear long term goals for each - then a lot of I wishes...

Does anyone else have a system that works, I mean I know lots of you have dogs that know way more tricks than mine, and also have multiple dogs.

I also really want to make sure and not lose what we already know.
Thanks!

 

[southerngirl]

I made a list of tricks Missy knows on DTA and so have other members.

 

[Linda A]

I started out with the list of tricks for the 'Do More With Your Dog' titles. You can get the list on that site. I just check off the tricks as we learn them. We've also learned things not on the list so I now have a 'Word' document where I keep track of them. Bragging a little....Royal is now up to 132 tricks!!

 

[Linda A]

To stay in practice we have a slip of paper for each trick. We draw five and practice them, then put those slips of paper into a different container, or the bottom of the pile. This way the dogs don't get bored doing the same things all the times and it gives them a refresher on a regular basis.

 

[k9 crazed]

Thanks, southerngirl my simple list just wasn't cutting it.
I was willing to bet you had a system Linda A! Actually, just asking the question (silly as it seems and stupid as it made me feel) really helped me clarify in my mind what I wanted! I did like you suggest and have a list in word but I also did a list for in progress and for next up also goals so actually I made 4 lists and I'll make seperate ones for Diesel. I was already trying with the lists from Do more with your dog, but I didn't have one per dog and it wasn't clear enough to help me stay on track-also was running into the not on the list problem. That slip of paper trick is a super idea just right! so it's not the same all the time. Thank you so much! Yahoo! Maybe with this help my dogs will eventually join yours up there on that podium!

 

[Linda A]

Thanks, southerngirl my simple list just wasn't cutting it.
I was willing to bet you had a system Linda A! Actually, just asking the question (silly as it seems and stupid as it made me feel) really helped me clarify in my mind what I wanted! I did like you suggest and have a list in word but I also did a list for in progress and for next up also goals so actually I made 4 lists and I'll make seperate ones for Diesel. I was already trying with the lists from Do more with your dog, but I didn't have one per dog and it wasn't clear enough to help me stay on track-also was running into the not on the list problem. That slip of paper trick is a super idea just right! so it's not the same all the time. Thank you so much! Yahoo! Maybe with this help my dogs will eventually join yours up there on that podium!

LOL! I don't have a list for what to do next as I never know what it will be. I just do what ever strikes me that day.

 

[Dogster]

I have a simple list here and on Facebook. I update it every once in a while.

 

[k9 crazed]

Yeeaah... I think doing whatever strikes me that day was part of my problem! Then I'd forget I'd even started or was halfway through... I kinda tend to bounce around...and it's not just dog tricks but everything else as well...sigh.​

I didn't quite name my lists right either cause next up is really goals more than tricks per say. Plus with my dog who is sort of different (like not at all a natural retriever) since I have to build the entire behavior if I break it down into steps it will help me stay motivated when I have things I can check off.
The actual list headings are for Rocket:
1. Tricks Known
2. Working On- this is the list of tricks we have started(-this is the problem area there are 24 on here)
3.Current Goal-for us right now this is the ITD title so there is a list of 15 or so that I took from the list (12 +some alts.)
4. Next Up this list has :

1. ATD +7 or 8 likely trick choices​

2. ETD +7 or 8 trick Choices​

3. Carting Title (the Berner Club will title other than their breed and the test is in May)​

4.TDCH​

5. Cyber RallyO​

Anyway, I think this way my lists will be useful and actually help me get things done. Now I'm going to make up those papers for review! Yay! I'm a Happy girl. Oh and Rocket and I started the long road to retrieving and he did really well so I'm extra pumped!

 

[k9 crazed]

Duh! Actually there's no need to maintain a running tricks known list! Just write out a slip each time the dog has a trick down and add it to the refresher pile! Better and better!

 

[Linda A]

Duh! Actually there's no need to maintain a running tricks known list! Just write out a slip each time the dog has a trick down and add it to the refresher pile! Better and better!

This is true but I still keep a list as people what to know what tricks my dogs knows and I can just send them the word.doc.

 

[k9 crazed]

Ah yes! But at least if I get distracted I can go through the ones in the box, eh? Like a back up! Course I don't imagine too many folks will be asking for my dogs list of tricks LOL!

 

[Dogster]

Course I don't imagine too many folks will be asking for my dogs list of tricks LOL!

Ah, but in a couple of months, they will!!

 

[Mutt]

I have made a word document for their tricks (they both have their own) with two colloms:
tricks they know and tricks I have started with/I want to teach.
What can I say I like making lists and it is very helpfull as some tricks aren't done very often, this way I remember to do them once in a while
Me crazy? Not at all