Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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Kristin;
I had exactly the same problem with Sadie. It had nothing to do with, nor was I striving for, duration. With her, it turned out to be an intensity (focus/engagement) issue. When she was in good drive, I'd get the nice straight quick down; on bad days I'd get the ole flop-my-butt-over-on-the-side. To further complicate things, she'd sometimes creep towards me when she downed.
I was able to teach her that one down was right and the others were wrong. I then started marking only the correct downs, and immediately making her redo the incorrect ones.
Does Duke have a negative ("That's not right, try it again") bridge?
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I've been thinking about this and while I would have said yes, we have a negative bridge, and I know what he understands as a negative bridge ("ehhn!") I've also caught myself using this for undesired behavior outside of training. Which may be tainting its use as a negative marker.
On the upside - walking on a training collar has been a huge lifesaver for my back/shoulders, and Duke loves seeing it in the morning. On the downside, he dashed into the screen porch and leaped 3 ft high through one of the screen windows 3 days ago, while I was trying to corral him and my son back into the house after an unexpected visitor left. So.. there's something else to work on
I just made contact with a very local trainer with an interest in PSA and her own young malinois she is training, and we're actually meeting her tonite. So wish us luck
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I use "No!" for undesired behavior (verbal correction), so I chose "uh uh" for a negative bridge. It takes a little getting used to, but after only a short while I'd gotten the hang of it, and rarely mix them up now.
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Re: Duke @ 6 months and his shoddy trainer
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