I've been working my female Mal with the long grip building tug attached to my leg with the strap under my foot. At our regular FR sessions she has been slowly introduced to the suit. This past weekend she got to beat up the decoy in the full suit for the first time. Our coach who was working her in the suit mentioned that she likes the right leg better.
I am right handed I notice when she is on the left leg with the tug she will reorient herself. Like her eyes move from the outside to the inside orientation as she twists her head to be more comfortable. She will actually regrip in the wrong orientation
if she is tilted to the wrong side what can I do to correct it?
The coach says ..
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We still have a ways to go in regards to getting her to react
instinctively when it comes to pivots, counters and stick opposition.
Right now the most important thing is that she become very confident
(bullish/pushy even) and comfortable in her grips(bites). We have all
the time in the world to complicate things and build.
So as not to build bad habits should I be offering the tug on the left leg? Or making her out to regrip? Or just let her have at it to build her confidence? Or only offer the right leg? I'm not seeing the coach until Friday now.
So just let her have it then? Both legs? Worry about the head orientation later? I'm not pulling out the grip building tug in the meantime until I know for sure I'm not giving her bad habits.
You can still give her both legs-just don't put any pressure on her or
mess with her too much. She will show us how and when she is
comfortable, that will give us a better idea of how to customize her
training. For the moment all bite work should be fun and easy. A game!
I'm seeing the same problems Geoff.
BB's leg bites are really good.
But he's starting to re-bite on the arm bites.
I'm going to start claim praise after the bite, and stroking his head. It calms him down and lets him know the bite he has is fine, and he should hold it.
I'm going to start claim praise after the bite, and stroking his head. It calms him down and lets him know the bite he has is fine, and he should hold it.
Yeah that's what we do when she is firmly in place she gets a lot of praise etc. We are working on leg pivots now and she is just relishing in it.
That's how you get the dog to push into the bite right Johan? Our training is moving to that stage now. She has had lot's of fun on the tug and is now on the suit it is a whole different can of worms! Lots of fun!!
This may just be a training/experience issue, but it may also be an indicator of something wrong. Have your dog sit in front of you, with a treat in your hand. Something good, but nothing that she's super crazy over. Then use the treat to lure her to turn her head as far to the left and right as you can, also up and down.
On more than one occasion, because of a bad jam, or slamming into another dog in play, or whatever, my dogs have tweaked their neck/back/shoulder to the point that it was uncomfortable for them to turn their head on direction, and they showed a very obvious lack of range of motion to that direction. Depending on what happened, a few days off may fix it, or you might want to take her to a chiropractor for an adjustment.
Dogs, like people, are also left or right "handed", and will tend to prefer to bite one leg over the other, turn one way when retrieving, etc In those situations I will give 1 bite on the good leg for every 2-3 bites on the bad leg. But it's always good to rule out an injury also.
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