I have a five-year-old female GSD that I am showing in AKC and UKC obedience. I've had other GSD's, but she is the first that I have trained for competition. We have a few titles, but have gotten low scores due to lack of focus. I never really worked on this because I never dreamed that I would ever be competing. My question is, is she too old to retrain to focus on me while in the ring. She can focus outside of the ring and can even look quite flashy while heeling. I have purchased the DVD's Focus and Drive and Competition Heeling and hope utilizing these techniques will help. Others have told me that she is too old and that I should start training with a new puppy, but I don't want to give up on her, especially since it was my lack of training that caused this problem. I would appreciate any info anyone could give me.
She can focus outside of the ring and can even look quite flashy while heeling
Sounds like maybe you just need to work on the distraction that would come from being in the ring at a competition.
Set your training up to resemble what she will see come competition day. When you take her in the ring on competition day she should not think anything is different from any other training day
Becky
It is never too old to learn, even for us!!!!! I think your dog will have a ball, lolololo, learning to focus on you using her prey drive. Truly a wonderful way to build the relationship with your dog. I would really work on not correcting your dog. Please no collar corrections. This will deflate prey. She must build her drive first.
Roni
Becky, when you say that she can focus outside the ring are you doing the same thing? In other words, are you luring, baiting or bribing her outside the ring?
When my dogs break eye contact I stop, show them the tug they missed out on and continue again in 8-10 seconds.
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Teaching Focus
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