Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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"The problem I'm having is that when he know I have the treats or sees me with the treat pouch around my waist, he gets excited and bounces/jumps up a little. "
You could schedule sessions for right after a meal (rather than before).
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And parlor tricks are fun and absorbing things to teach without strenuous activity.
We are filling a kong with peanut butter and freezing it more just to keep him occupied for a while than anything.
You can feed him ALL of his meals this way to give him more to do. If he's on kibble you can either soak it then stuff it into the kongs and freeze it or just mix it with canned and freeze it.
It's funny Connie. I have wanted to do SchH for many years but right now I work 6 days a week to keep my wife home with my kids. I don't think I have time for it. However, I saw Keith's bump about starting a club in Roanoke. I pm'd him. Small world. I had started going to the club that Keith used to train at several years ago and then realized I didn't have time to dedicate to it. Now Keith trains at a club that is only 20 minutes away from me and I didn't even know they existed until about 30 minutes ago. Now I'm wondering if I could do it with the club being that close. As you know, I have a ton to learn and I was not looking for working lines when I got Marco so I have no idea if he's capable of it and would probably be surprised if he is because he had mostly show lines in his pedigree. A few working titles here and there but not much.
ian bunbury Webboard User Reg: 01-19-2012
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FST = foot step tracking .
highly precise form of ( sport ) tracking where the dog / handler team is moving relatively slowly along the tracklayers foot step to foot step . points taken off for deviations .
this is opposed to " tracking through drive " where the dog / handler team are moving quickly along the track . the goal here is to be moving faster than the person ( criminal , missing person , etc ) laying the track , so that the pursuers will overtake their quarry .
Tricks and mind games that you can do right in the living room and that will engage his mind (and tire it out) are probably going to be important for you guys.
O.K. I just never heard it called foot step tracking. I just always heard tracking.
Things are going as well as can be expected I suppose. It's really hard not to play with him and it's driving him crazy too.
I went to meet the SchH club here on Wednesday and am going to watch them do tracking in the morning. Really cool people and seemed really interested in helping me. So once Marco is healed I'm going to bring him out and let the trainer check him out and see what he thinks. They all basically said that even though there's hardly any working titles in his pedigree, don't write him off until you work him and see what he can do. You never know. The trainer said that sometimes when you're not looking for the right dog, that's when you find it. We'll see. Keith had last years USRC National Champion and the trainer, Jacob I think had last years FH champion. So I think I'm in pretty good hands once Marco is better.
Kory, it's called Foot Step Tracking (FST) because in Schutzhund the dog is expected to put it's nose in every single foot step on the track. It can loose points if it skips over any.
In AKC tracking it's pass or fail and it's not expected to be as precise in the straight track or the corners as long as the dog gets to the end with all articles indicated.
Had minor setback with Marco. As careful as we've tried to be keeping him calm, he still gets the burst of energy sometimes and tries to jump or run. Well he pulled the repair out slightly. He started limping more yesterday. Took him in today. X-ray showed he damaged it a little. The surgeon it's nowhere near enough for him to go back in and revise it and he still should heal fine and be able to do schutzhund or whatever else. But now we've had to resort to a sedative and pretty much keep him crated for the next 4 weeks.
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