Hello, Van Camp I think your nuts frying him; sharpen the prong and jerk him down the track................LOL.
Anyway, I the idea of corrections as others said, is not the best at this time. YOu could try to increase the food or use a food drag which I have found usefull. I find this to work with many dogs. You can put food on the track every so often, to control his speed, but a food drag should teach him to follow the scent until the end, as that is where the reward is. I like this method.
Alot of the prevouis mentioned advice is solid, and it may aslo work. Good Luck.
“Vince P., you would MAKE him finish the track at five months. You are a hard hard man.”
You’re assuming that I would use force. I would have first:
“…tried to redirect him back into the track, as a last resort pointing and/or dropping a new piece of food in a footprint to jumpstart him. If he would track a short distance further on his own, I might have reached ahead of him and dropped a small jackpot on the track to finish it on a good note and then leave.” -Sch3Fh2
Only if this failed would I have used force. And then went home to either reevaluate my dog or my training techniques.
How about getting some opposition reflex going and track with 2 lines, 1 under each leg, and keeping tension on the lines?? Just a bit more reason to keep moving...
Originally posted by VanCamp: Sure, BH(lol) gets a little bit more specific and everybody forgets that I said nearly the same thing first. Just keep pattin' yourselves on the back you jokers. . . <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
I understand those who chose to force track or use such/platz, but NOT on a 5 month old puppy, Vince. There's a time and a place for everything, including compulsion, and popping a baby cuz he has an off day or he can't focus long enough to complete your track, especially after a history of successful tracks, would be (IMHO) counterproductive.
Again I would exhuast every motivational possibility first but before I left that field my dog would finish the track one way or another. Would I kick myself in the but for setting my dog up for failure. Yes. But he's finishing the track.
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