In aprox 3 months I will be putting my rottweiler through the schutzhund BH. I have been working the focus ,dog in heal position ,head looking up at me,have been doing this in many different places,from the city to the dog club, so many different distractions.
For a good competition dog how long can they hold this head position for.
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steve strom Webboard User Reg: 03-17-2006
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You could say that they can for as long as it takes you to do the whole routine. But I think in reality there's enough breaks between the exercises that they really don't have to.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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Just curious here...
Is the focused heeling required? I've seen some relatively good BH scores awarded to dogs that were focused straight ahead rather than on the handler. I'm working toward a BH also, and, while my dog keeps her head up and alert, she prefers to look forward and gets fidgety (and out of position) when I insist that she focus on me.
Hello Duane
I just feal that if the dog is looking at me hopefully less chance of distractions,purely personal.
Also I use contact healing ,dog right shoulder just touching left leg.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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Dog is actually not supposed to be touching or leaning on your leg. The thought being that in doing so you are aiding the dog in turns & about turns etc. by signaling with your body pressure.
Even though a BH is a pass or fail...the judge still awards points to the different part of the exercises & those points determin the pass or fail.
In ring sports, I believe, the dog just needs to be heeling along side of you, but the ultimate focus & animated gate, looked for in SchH, in not needed. I may be incorrect about the ring heel, I've not worked a dog in ring only SchH.
Hello Ann
I may have dug a hole for myself,I trained this pupp from 8 weeks just to have his right shoulder just touching my left leg.
I am working very hard on the focus under all sorts of distractions from live stock to trucks, to people, gun fire.
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I think Bob Scott had the good idea, that he used (at least I think it was you, Bob) of fastening a wire brush to the side of his leg when teaching heeling so the dog would learn to stay close but not actually touch his leg. If they hit his leg they would get prickled buy the wire bristles.
Just try the brush thing or something like it & continue to work the heel. I wouldn't correct the dog about it all but it may help him clean it up a bit before the trial. The worse that happens is that you loose a couple of points there. In the sceam of things & all the rest of the exercises are good....I'd not worry about it. To me, that would be seriously sweating the small stuff.
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