what happened here? it looked to me like the dog missed the first bite opportunity and ended up flipping, but i'm not sure...i'm here to get educated, so educate, people!!
After watching it in slow mo many, many times, I feel the helper executed the catch pretty good. The only thing he could have done safer was to keep his elbow down instead letting it float up. If you let your elbow raise up during the catch, the dog will always fly high and you risk hurting the dog if it comes loose. IMO the Mal just wasn't able to hold on, too fast for his/her own good.
thanks michael, an educational link. so the dog just came in too fast and hard for the decoy? the 2 vids looked like the same thing to me, and the conclusion is: (correct me if i'm wrong), the dog's fault, not the decoy's?
what does one do to prevent this?
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thanks michael, an educational link. so the dog just came in too fast and hard for the decoy? the 2 vids looked like the same thing to me, and the conclusion is: (correct me if i'm wrong), the dog's fault, not the decoy's?
what does one do to prevent this?
Sit the dog down and have a good long talk with him about inappropriate acrobatics on the training field. "Son, you needa keep that &!#$ for the agility course, there's no place for that in bite work! You're a working boy, there'll be none o' that AKC &!#$ out there! You're makin me look bad!"
you're a hoot! so does one use a treat during this talk, or does one use the eye-contact trick? or does one say "bad dog, no biscuit" when the dog comes in too hard/fast for the decoy? or does one fire the decoy? or does one let the dog eat the decoy???
The debate in the two videos in question is whether the acrobatics was caused by the dog not getting enough of a bite to "hang on" (either due to excessive speed or poor grip, etc) or if the helper caused the acrobatics due to poor presentaion of the sleeve, etc.
Some people feel it was due to the dog, some feel it was due to the helper. The video, IMO, is really too fast and not high enough quality to make a definitive determination as to the cause.
It may very well have been a combination of the two factors.
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