 Ongoing training post - End of 2014
#394935 - 11/05/2014 04:26 PM |
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So, what's everyone been up to since the training contest?
Chance and I are training for a 5K race in 10 days - it's going very well! We won't win (well, maybe) but we will certainly finish. Duke and I are working on his same old same old and I'm going to need to find a way to change things up, I can tell that he's bored, so I'm putting together a list of things for us to go over on training nights.
What's everyone else doing? I'm sure there's some interesting stuff with the holidays coming up!
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Re: Ongoing training post - End of 2014
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#394936 - 11/05/2014 04:34 PM |
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Well, our schutzhund club had dwindled to just a few guys getting together to train dogs, but it's starting to pick up again. I have also worked an inordinate amount of overtime this year. Because of these two issues, Sadie's work hasn't really been goal-oriented for over a year. We do track when we can, and she's getting closer to being ready for a TR1.
In the meantime, I had done some work here and there on individual behaviors that she will need to progress in IPO, so now it's time to get back to polishing and building the individual behaviors into complex behaviors.
Her bitework is progressing nicely. Well, at least we're now to a point where it's easy to identify problems and solutions. I have been continuing my helper training, and look forward to continuing with that.
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Re: Ongoing training post - End of 2014
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#394937 - 11/05/2014 04:59 PM |
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Well, I've started FST again with the GSD because he just loves it.
GOOD THREAD, Kristin! I need this bump to get me to put my mind to new stuff, particularly for my two who have become more and more deaf. They both love to be trained, and they need me to stop being a lazy jerk.
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#394951 - 11/05/2014 06:25 PM |
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We have the electric collar charging and are thinking about how to begin with Lad, the car chasing collie. Since being hit he returns when called, but he sure loves the chase, even to chase from 20
to 30 ft away.
Not certain how to even begin.
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#394978 - 11/07/2014 12:18 PM |
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Sasha and I are continuing to train towards our Rally Advanced level. There is a competition coming up soon but I don't think we'll be completely ready. We may compete FEO (For Exhibition Only), just to see where we're at and what we need to work on.
Also, Sasha needs only one more leg in Rally Novice Team to get her Novice Team title so I'm trying to find someone to join up with me for that. Our previous partner, a 13 lb Chinese Crested, has been very sick lately and I'm not sure he's going to make it.
I'm trying to think of something to train for the next contest.
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#395087 - 11/11/2014 06:35 PM |
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#395093 - 11/12/2014 12:42 PM |
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Never fails... the advent of Autumn, with its decent temps, also falls in Sadie's heat cycle. So, just as we get temperatures that are pleasant to train in, we are sidelined for four weeks. By the time she can go back to the club, it'll pbly be cold and rainy.
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Re: Ongoing training post - End of 2014
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#395095 - 11/12/2014 02:43 PM |
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Never fails... the advent of Autumn, with its decent temps, also falls in Sadie's heat cycle. So, just as we get temperatures that are pleasant to train in, we are sidelined for four weeks. By the time she can go back to the club, it'll pbly be cold and rainy.
Your club doesn't allow females in heat to train with everyone?
That's the best way to proof the males IMO! I have been to two trials where we had females in standing heat (my female was bred in between phases LOL). It was nice that I had proofed my male around her in heat over the last two years, or I would have been in trouble LOL
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#395098 - 11/12/2014 04:56 PM |
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Self-imposed quarantine.
I help a lot at the club, and we are working with a lot of young males. Nothing is trial-ready or being proofed right now. If she takes the field, it disorients the young males that follow her, and they sniff around instead of focusing. I choose not to add that distraction for the other dogs' sake.
Also, she is so distracted and out of sorts that her focus isn't there and any work is non-productive. I get more done at home when she's this way...
AND, for reasons I won't spell out in detail, I ain't standin' behind her while she does a bark-and-hold!
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#395099 - 11/12/2014 11:40 PM |
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Can't you work the ones in heat at the end of the day when the other dogs are not returning to the field.
I don't know...it never distracted my male or the other dogs when we trained. They really just wanted a piece of the decoy..they didn't care about my female. She just went back in her crate in the truck, with the truck closed up, when not working...not staked out or walked around.
Can't say I ever had the problem you have standing behind my dog. :-(
She was even more intense (If that was even possible) when she worked in heat.
My female has always lived with 3 different intact makes in my house. The males learn to deal with it & focus on their job & she hasten't ever been allowed to be a hussy.
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