I trained my dog to come around behind me to fuss. I plan on going for my first sch 1 in the spring and I really like the flip finish. He's probably come around me several thousand times now and I am not sure if I should attempt to change it....especially given the fact that I'm a new handler with much more to work on. hee hee...having fun though. Any input? Should I just leave well enough alone?
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There's nothing wrong with changing it. It's two seperate commands for a dog, so he shouldn't get them confused as long as you label them differently. Keep the original one fresh and work on the new one, too. I do both with my dog and while I had a harder time communicating the flip finish to him, that was my fault and not his. Lots of people here had no problem teaching their dog to do it.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with putting it off until later, either, if you have other work to do for your Sch1. But I've found that sometimes teaching something new "freshens" the dog who's been doing the same thing for awhile.
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If you're working on you Sch1 and you don't want to "ruin" a good thing in your routine, you could stick to the original finish, and do the flip training seperately...unless your dog gets really solid on the flip.
I may have been confused with what you were asking. I didn't realize you meant changing it in the Sch1 routine that your dog is already learning.
You can train both, for sure, but if the dog is already familiar with the routine and you're doing some solid work there, then if it were me I'd probably stick to the original finish for the Sch1, and work on the flip separately. It probably depends on you and how quickly your dog takes to it, but no sense in losing points over a finish if your dog is spot on with the original.
But then again, you have until Spring and some dogs really take to the flip quick. It might be a good thing to do if he's TOO solid on the routine and needs to "wake up a bit" though. An interested dog looks flashy, but a bored dog looks...well, bored!
If you teach it with a completely new command it will have no effect on the original finish.
To the dog it will be a completely different exercise.
One benifit to teaching both is that it can help eliminate any anticipation problems. Of course if the finish is taught correctly there should be no anticipation of the finish.
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Should I change my finish?
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