Jason Shipley Webboard User Reg: 05-13-2005
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I am having a problem getting my dog back into drive on multiple subject searches. Here is the most recent scenario; we were working in a heavily wooded dense brush area. The dog performed well and found the first subject in about a half hour. He gave a good bark alert and was rewarded by the subject. I recalled the dog praised him and put the toy in my pocket. I then could not get his focus off of my pocket and back into searching. Does anybody have a good exercise to work on this problem? I ended up ignoring him and continued my grid until he hit on the second subject but he was not ranging at all and got much closer to the subject before indicating than he would normally do.
In this situation we typically have the second "victim" give a loud callout to let the dog know somebody else is out there. You can use radios to let that person know when to call out to get your dog's attention.
The first few times you do this, the second victim should be set in a place where the dog will hear the callout, move out from you and then quickly get the scent of the second victim. You can then fade the callout and move the second victim farther away from the first after the dog starts to get the idea.
Most highly motivated dogs learn this pretty quickly.
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Remotivating on multiple subject searches
#108705 - 06/26/2006 07:23 AM 
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