 Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272797 - 04/12/2010 10:14 PM |
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Ha, my Dozer took a run behind our golf cart today for the first time. Was an interesting time and he seemed to really enjoy it after he got the hang of just running along side and not trying to bite the tires. He's one pooped pup tonight.
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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Ha, my Dozer took a run behind our golf cart today for the first time. Was an interesting time and he seemed to really enjoy it after he got the hang of just running along side and not trying to bite the tires. He's one pooped pup tonight.
Is this a new topic? I can't see the connection to the thread ... ?
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272809 - 04/13/2010 07:03 AM |
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So, basically the consensus is not to worry about the walks so much now? First, work on his sit and get him to do it for long periods of time. Maybe I just practice walking in the yard or driveway or even inside the house. There really aren't any times with no people. In the morning, there are people either going to work or out exercising before work. Afternoons are filled with people walking dogs and in their yards. Same thing in the evenings, and then you can add in the kids and teenagers. While practicing, we'll do the treadmill and work on the fetch. He is just so distracted by the smells in the backyard, that he could care less about anything I throw. He veers off mid path to smell something. We've got a bit of a mole infestation now, so he's going nuts smelling them underground!
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272850 - 04/13/2010 12:11 PM |
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So, basically the consensus is not to worry about the walks so much now? First, work on his sit and get him to do it for long periods of time. Maybe I just practice walking in the yard or driveway or even inside the house. There really aren't any times with no people. In the morning, there are people either going to work or out exercising before work. Afternoons are filled with people walking dogs and in their yards. Same thing in the evenings, and then you can add in the kids and teenagers. While practicing, we'll do the treadmill and work on the fetch. He is just so distracted by the smells in the backyard, that he could care less about anything I throw. He veers off mid path to smell something. We've got a bit of a mole infestation now, so he's going nuts smelling them underground!
Duration is added later, and gradually. Number one is loading your marker. Then would be excellent compliance with no duration or distractions. Only then are changes in venue, duration, distractions gradually introduced.
Is your yard big enough to briskly walk around it with him on leash? (This doesn't need to be an acre or something. "Around" can be alternated with across and diagonal and so on.)
Fetch is taught most successfully (for me) if I first teach the release into my hand indoors, no distractions, with terrific rewards. Only gradually do I move the show outdoors.
Have you seen any of the detailed threads about teaching a retrieve, step by step?
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#272862 - 04/13/2010 01:12 PM |
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He does the sit in the house perfectly right now. He also does it outside with slight distractions well. He's got the hang of the marker. Yes, I can walk him in the yard, although he is highly distracted by the smells. If I hold the food in front of his nose, he will stay there for quite a while. I took him to an empty ball field today as well, and we circled it a few times.
He will do fetch for food well indoors, not well outdoors. Again, the hound in him must take over and the nose goes crazy!
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272865 - 04/13/2010 01:38 PM |
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He does the sit in the house perfectly right now. He also does it outside with slight distractions well.
I would add distractions in the house, slowly, then (not at the same time) do venue changes. Then one of the final (later) venue changes would be to the yard, and I would have awesome rewards where the scents are so attractive to him.
I wouldn't introduce duration before great compliance under heavy distraction.
This is a process. I might start with someone walking by in the house while I work on sit (these are all frequent but short and sweet sessions, BTW). The the person might stand and look. Then there might be something noisy going on in an adjoining room. Then I might do it near an open door to the outside. Then someone might be moving around outside.
You get the gist. I would do all this distraction-proofing and I would consider outdoors to be a pretty big distraction (that is, not yet!) to a scent-y guy like this before ever introducing duration.
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... He will do fetch for food well indoors, not well outdoors. Again, the hound in him must take over and the nose goes crazy!
Does he release the toy well? Is he engaged when you do fetch indoors?
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272868 - 04/13/2010 01:53 PM |
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If he knows he is going to get food, he will release it. Sometimes he is enthusiastic, sometimes not. I don't think he has a retrieval gene in him.
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Re: ideas for exercise besides walks
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#272870 - 04/13/2010 02:27 PM |
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If he knows he is going to get food, he will release it. Sometimes he is enthusiastic, sometimes not. I don't think he has a retrieval gene in him.
Again, I would teach that release separately (yes, backing up to Step One) indoors, no distraction, great (but tiny) rewards.
The enthusiasm part is something I put on myself. I make myself exciting and engaging, as well as using what Bob Scott calls the individual dog's currency.
If a training session is very short and very upbeat, and the marker rewards are fabulous (to him), and I end the session on a high note every time, then training sessions are going to be a high point for him.
An upbeat happy "Ready?" or "Let's go!" can be a signal that a wonderful training session is about to begin.
And I end it while the dog is wanting more.
So -- releasing the item to me would be the only behavior I'd include in the session. No chasing it, no bringing it back .... just the release into my hand.
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