tryed to get some heel while puting the magnesium chloride in the indoor arena. Seem like it was more fun to try to catch the flying crystals, but got some nice work out of that 1hr of boring walk around.
Snow storm and freezing rain for tomorrow aka lots of fetch in a dust free arena but Harley is not too keen on the taste of mg cl so many balls will be needed and also nosework will be on the menu for us.
It is slushing here I can bearly walk safely from the house to the barn. It is not that cold but very un pleasant to be outside.
I warm up Harley with his usual nosework target then tryed to get him to find my keys. Well that was easy but I want a different cue for keys. I am thinking of "keys". Find it is used for other nosework smell. We also did some ob and fetch. More fetch later to burn off some steam and hope that he will sleep.
Dexter played a bit and got to find treats (that's as far as nosework goes with him) around the house and did a bit of ob. Now he should sleep till tomorrow
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Trying to work on motivation and working through some heat, it's been quite warm here and my girl's been right off her game. Very slow heeling and actions and haven't been able to even get much out of her just for games either Her trials this Friday night so not sure to pull her out of it or give it a go? any tips for working a dog when it's hot weather? she's not even bouncing back when the temperature drops in the evening but is still good first thing in the morning
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Had an absolute ball this evening, kinda forgot for a little bit training's supposed to be fun, Raven's resting up so I worked Hank and had so much fun. His motivation is much higher than his sisters so he'll work through heat or anything (it's a little cooler this evening) so it was heeling, stays and restraint on his part using a ball for a reward and he performed brilliantly actually showed some control although I still need to work on him waiting for a command when the ball's thrown at the moment he just takes off after it even when I don't want him to.
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Hey, Brad;
JMO and what worked for me: I taught my dog a "wait" command separate from everything else, with no distraction. Now, when she's in drive, I can make her wait when she knows what's next. When I taught her to retrieve, it only took a few reps for her to learn she had to wait for the command to bring.
You can also make the dog sit, and reinforce not breaking that position under the distraction of the toss. I like the "wait" because I use it for all training
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Thanks Duane, I'll give it a go. It's the long toss that sets him off, he'll stay when I bounce it near him or small tosses near him but once it's a distance he's off!
Today I practiced heeling with Bindi. Tomorrow we are going to train and my husband is going to try and take a video of us so i can see my training and how it is going. Working with Terra on her heel and on the "mark" so she can turn with me and learn the heel position. cody working on fear behaviors, taking him to petsmart and introducing him to different people. Then we go for a short walk at the shopping center. He is afraid of walking there for some reason. He does well, we only walk on one side of the buildings.
bindi-working on turns, eye contact, (which is excellent), fronts and finishes.
Me- working on knowing the rally o cards and walking each one through. Then taking bindi and walking them with her.
Taping-heeling training with terra, working on down and wait.
Sharon
Great to hear all you guys are doing. sounds great!
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