Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Why does the title of this thread keep changing? I thought I found a thread for holistic meditation.
I know ....
I keep correcting it to "heeling," but unless I do it manually to every post, the original post's title is the one that shows.
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Not even close to what I did once, decades ago but still fresh in my mind, while proofreading a manual ..... I left "softwear" instead of "software."
Edited by Connie Sutherland (09/21/2012 04:38 PM)
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Why does the title of this thread keep changing? I thought I found a thread for holistic meditation.
I kept thinking that if the OP is doing a healing then that's gonna take both hands on the dogs head and that's gonna mess with teaching the heeling.....but I'm old and take a bit to figure all this stuff out.
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Quote: Duane Hull
Why does the title of this thread keep changing? I thought I found a thread for holistic meditation.
I kept thinking that if the OP is doing a healing then that's gonna take both hands on the dogs head and that's gonna mess with teaching the heeling.....but I'm old and take a bit to figure all this stuff out.
Quit dancing and put the snakes down Bob, you could scroll through some of the posts and catch up.
I worked on the attention phase for a long time before I started moving with any steps. Teach what attention is and that it is mandatory, it has a begging and an end attention is rewarded and inattention is corrected, command/release.
I taught a "watch" command separate from the fuss I also dropped food from my mouth so the dog would look up at my face. If your dog cannot pay attention to you while standing still and while under distraction he won't be able to pay attention while your moving.
As for the moving out of position a wall works great can't spin out of position with a barrier and for lagging or forging a leash to control position.
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Kory...A hallway,fence, long kitchen counter works better then something low like a couch. Having the height seems to work better. At least it did with all 3 of my young dogs.
Like Connie said after it is solid along the fence or whatever you use...move up so that you are able to heel a step past the fence. Increase heeling past the end of the fence a very small bit over time...until you are basically only heeling a couple of feet at the beginning of the heel on the fence. Until you no longer need it. You can always go back to using the fence periodically to keep the dog 'fresh' & to correct any forging etc.
NEVER be afraid to take a STEP BACK in training when things start to get sloppy or just aren't working & go back to what the dog is solid on for a few days & then try moving forward with training new behaviors again. Sometimes you need to even take a few days or week off & just play with your dog. We all need mental health days. :-)
O.K. I'm going to try some of these things before I try to post a video. He's doing slightly better the last two sessions, but still quite distracted and not focusing like I need him to. I didn't take that much time at first getting him to focus while standing still but he does do that now pretty well. It's just when I start moving that he usually loses focus on me. The spinning has now pretty much stopped for no apparent reason and the forging is not as bad, but the lack of focus is still pretty bad. I'll try some of the suggestions and see how that goes.
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