If the dog goes around first blind to the right dose dog have to do second blind to the left creating a figure 8 where dog crosses your path as you advance down the field.
CJ Barrett Webboard User Reg: 04-19-2009
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What a great question Brent.
I don't do Schutzhund but we're playing with the blinds too. I'm sure I did something wrong in the training and didn't redirect it soon enough. Was just so happy watching him head out around them I didn't pay enough attention to his entry.
Now he approaches each blind on the right.
It doesn't bother me and he's getting around them with some pretty good speed but what a great question if you are competing. I would like to train it right, and well maybe left, too.
It has a lot to do with how it's trained but you'll find some dogs that will naturally go left or right.
Don't fight it if they have a preference. Being consistent is more important.
steve strom Webboard User Reg: 03-17-2006
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The advice I hear all the time is what Bob said, don't fight it if they have a preference. I think one guy taught his dog to always go around the low side, but I don't remember for sure. What really stands out to me are the dogs who SEARCH the blind, not just go around it.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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My female always went to the left & around the blinds...didn't matter if it was the left or the right blind...but I had taught her to go inside & to look (when I trained her by placing hot dog peices in there when I first trained her to do a blind search) ...so she learned to always check the inside of the blind as she went around.
My male would go either way around...but he too, would check out the inside, due to being taught to look inside for the hot dog pices when first trained to blind search.
Some will say to train the dog to go in from the left because going in from the right sends them out left which is looking down field. I don't buy that. It's still a training issue. All competition dogs know that the helper will always be in #6 on trial day. It's just a matter of training them to look in all of them.
In training a decoy/helper will randomly be in any or all of the blinds.
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