Hello all, im new to this board ive been reading posts for months now just seeing what you guys get on with and i was just very pleased to see a forum that has members that respect each other thoroughly. Well onto my question. Ive been watching various top trainers and working my dog aswell.. and in obedience my dog has very good footwork with her front legs working very nicely. I just wondered whether there was a technique used or does this just come natural to the dogs movement. I didnt work on footwork i just worked on the heel position and the footwork just came out. Is it possible for somebody to teach the nice footwork in there dogs ?
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Yes, it's possible to train the behavior. Generally the dog will use an animated step when its head tips up to look at the handler.
Some trainers will use a series of quick prong collar corrections to boost animation. I'm pretty sure Ed discusses it one of the DVD's but I don't remember for sure or which one. I have used this technique, but now, I don't think it was the best choice for the dog's temperament. Leave this technique for the experts.
A patient handler, getting the dog into drive, keeping training fun and very good timing of rewards should make the style of training mentioned above completely unnecessary and may give a better result in the end.
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