My shepherd understands the Fus and he will look at me when asked but I can not get him to look at me consistently while heeling down the field. Any solutions. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Rodney
Rodney, most people will use food or the dog's favorite prey object held at their chest to keep the dog looking at them while heeling. Granted, you will eventually have to wean them of this for competition, but just by holding your fist on your chest should eventually trigger the behavior.
Use a better reward. Require the dog to maintain the attention for a shorter distance. Once the dog has the attention better, increase the distance and vary the distance the attention is required. Once the Fus in a straight line is good then teach the turns. It sounds like you are trying to push the dog too far, too fast.
If you can't be a Good Example,then You'll just have to Serve as a Horrible Warning. Catherine Aird.
Originally posted by Vince P.: I like to teach the watch and the heel as seperate things so I can correct for each. If you need examples of how this is done email me.
We have always used the ball/food next to the face. Now we are considering adding the watch or starting with the watching. Our trainer is suggesting using a seperate word and having the reward be the release. Although this is just what he was told to do by someone else.
I am thinking using the word fus as if, to the dog fus means to watch me and in a certain form, then wont he naturally fall into place? I guess Im thinking its kinda like platz means platz, not platz and now stay?? Does this make sense? Also what do you think is better for the reward the release coming back into you or typicial food reward or even thrown ball?
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Hope I can get some good responses as we are just now starting to play with this.
Tracey
What recently started working great for me with my young dog is using the clicker for the heel especially for her looking at me.
I associated to clicker to the ball first.
And then starting the heel and as soon she looks CLICK and play with the ball very little. this again and again and little by little expanding the distance.
What is also not bad is doing the heel and as soon as dog looks at you do somthing change direction, sit, halt, run, slow whatever and reward the dog with your voice after doing that.
This also again and again and little by little expanding the distance.
The diggest problem I had was that my dog was looking at me in the first part 15 steps or so and at the end coming back just before the right turn and all the way till the end.
And for the rest not. I stopped doing the long line and instead I started 20 step turn. And I expanded this till the full lenght of steps.
I'm having the same problem. My dog Andrew is taught the "watch me" with food from my mouth to get his attention and the "fus" for heeling. He'll look at me as I ask him to, but not otherwise. Also, he's confused, because I make him look at me with the "watch me" command as I'm heeling, but sometimes I saw "fus" and I want him to watch me for that command as well. For a ball reward near my chin or chest, he gets too hectic, so I stick with food, since he's too high drive for the ball.
What do I do? Do I separate the "watch me" from the "fus" and only use this command for the front sit and the side sit. Do I teach "fus" with the watch me thrown in during walking to make it a habit? Do I correct with a sharp tug on the prong collar for in-attention? Basically, I watched the Tom Rose video of "Training the Competition Heeling dog" and I'm still confused. Please help.
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