Meagan I don't how your trainer is putting your FR training to you and the dog but obviously from the results of your first dog .. it is NOT computing in the dogs head.
The way we have been coached is if the dog is not doing the exercise correctly or doesn't understand the exercise it is because of what the handler /trainer is doing it is never the dog's fault.
Perhaps you should be looking for a new FR coach or a new club? Maybe your current coach is good at training his/her own dogs but not good at transfering the info to others? It can happen ..
Ahhh...*sigh*...if only FR was more popular! We don't have any local clubs...we drive an hour 3x per week to get our work in with this club. I did contact the breeder who used to run a FR club a while back and he agreed to meet with me weekly to help me troubleshoot some of the issues we have been having. Wish us luck
I drive 2.5 hours one way to get to mine. I'd love to be able to get 3 times a week in with my club but I can't. So I do lots of training by myself. Then I get to the club 3-4 times a month.
There is a lot of stuff you can do on your own with FR. You can do most if not all the obedience, play with grip building tugs and I even set up a hurdle in my backyard to work on the protocol of the agility exercises. You don't need a club to work on those if you have a good grasp of the rules.
Sure you need the decoy to work with the suit and all the protection exercises. But if you make all the basic training fun for the dog it would all fall into place when it does happen.
Food refusal is an excercise where the dog maynot eat food presented by a third party or found on the ground.
eg you can give your dog food.
For me it isn't an excercise but a thing he has to be 100% in. (you know dog poisning)
I'm very strict in this and my dog won't take food from a third party unles authorised by me. A few months ago i had a beautiful experience with food refusal. I slaughterd some rabits and i gave my dog a head. He let it fall out of his mouth. When i told himp it was alright he took it very carefully and went to his kennel and put it in his bowl. Looked at me only after i told him it was ok he started eating like a hungry wolf.
Thats funny Johan, one of my friends in our FR club I talked him into going RAW and the first time he presented the bowl of chopped up chicken carcass the dog didn't want to touch it. For sure because of his food refusal training it wasn't kibble so he wasn't going to eat it!
My friend had to pick up the food and re present the food to him later, once the dog figured that yes his handler was indeed letting him eat this wonderfully smelly stuff he was like you describe wolfing it down and crunching the bones like a champ!
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