Just Chaos.

Steve, thanks for the excellent videos. Loved watching it. I wish I had such green pastures to train my dogs :P.

What is the belt around the hips in the tracking video?


For the KCI (Kennel club of India) C4-B Class(one below the C4-C open class which the highest class, which includes, scentwork, long down for 15 minutes handler out of sight etc) there is Recall to heel position from the down in motion. The Pair start walking forward and at the command of the judge , the handler has to make the dog down while he/she is still moving forward, at the command of the judge , the handler has to call the dog to the heel position and keep moving forward as a pair till commanded to halt by the judge. The same is to be repeated for Sit and Stand.

I have been practicing that with Kaiser and he does not creep. But he is not a high drive dog.

As Hilarie Coby mentioned, I never rewarded the down or stand or sit in motion any where else other than the place he was commanded to sit/down/stand. I would ask him to heel and ask him to down, mark it but and keep walking, turn around and reward at the place of down.

Thats a Boetcher Harness Ram. It comes under his chest and hooks to his collar. It helps pull his head down while he pulls forward.

Steve,
The name for this thread should be Chaos rules. lol

Nothing but good times.
Nice pup, keep having fun.

Lol, yeah. And thats the real point of it all Randy. He's a lot of fun.

Nice videos Steve, in both threads! I made Faroh watch them, and told him "Now why can't you be more like your brother!?"
Except for maybe that creeping business - bad influence!

But seriously, if in a year, we are where you and Chaos are now, I would be very proud!

You will Phaedra. No problem.

I don't know if anyone will find this interesting or not, but one of the things thats tough with tracking, for me anyway is not being a distraction to my dog. On another short track from sunday the wind swirled a little different these few yards away and Chaos follows it off the track a couple of times.

He's still working though, and I managed to keep my yap closed. The video is a little bouncy, but you can see him stick to one side and then go off the track on the other side before coming back to it. Also, I havent really done much wit articles yet, the food containers or toy at the end or semi buried in the middle are just something to keep him interested.

http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u89/s-strom/Chaos/?action=view&current=CLIP0007.mp4

That's a biggie for us, too. It is WAY too easy to use a little body English to put a dog back on track.

I really got to see Turbo WORK on real blood trails this year because I didn't lay them, and had no idea where they went. I HAD to shut up and watch him.

Now our only problem is do I let him work off lead totally without me as a distraction? Or do I verbally slow his little ass down when I can't keep up in a thicket and distract him that way?

Wish I could afford a GPS collar. A bell will have to do for now.

The food in the container- I've never seen/heard of that one, but what a GREAT idea! (I'm working on training article indication right now) I'm going to go call my trainer.