First you have to teach your dog the front position, separate from any retrieving. You keep turning your body in either direction, asking for the front, until you dog understands the position no matter what position your dog is in relation to yours when you begin.
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My dog dose a nice front sit. So if he sits crooked would you tap is bum around with your foot which is hard to do with a large dog or would you quickly put a knee out has the dog is coming in to square him up? For this exercise I have not used markers but I was thinking of using a touch pad.
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The knee when he's coming in won't straighten him, he'll go even more crooked and farther out trying to avoid the knee. Try putting something on the ground he has to come between and sit straight. And like Leih said, little short drills from different angles so that he learns to fix his own rear.
My dog dose a nice front sit. So if he sits crooked would you tap is bum around with your foot which is hard to do with a large dog or would you quickly put a knee out has the dog is coming in to square him up? For this exercise I have not used markers but I was thinking of using a touch pad.
I use marker training, so no, I wouldn't use the knee or tap-with-the-foot approach. Steve's suggestion is a good one, I think, to give your dog the idea of lining up right. Just make sure to wean from that once the position is solid initially by doing little pivots so the dog has to realign itself.
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Any idea how to minimize the reacurring of the old mistake once the dog has learned the correct behaviour? I have myself one of those relearners and despite the fact I taught her the correct behaviour 3 years ago and haven´t rewarded it since then and I still get crooked fronts (she corrects herself after about 5 seconds but by that time I have lost points already)...
Dont want to start another thread or make it about me, just thought some tips on that could help the OP in the long run.
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Is she crooked like she's anticipating the finish? Or is she coming in a little lazy for that last few feet and just kinda plopping herself in crooked?
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She is usually crooked to the right (sometimes to the left too) so doesn´t seem like anticipating the finish but she never comes in what I would describe as lazy... It might have something to do with the fact that I used to reward with one hand when I started to train (I was used to training a dog that was so proficient at catching that I only rewarded from my mouth and had to learn how to reward with hands again :P ).
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