I've been working with teaching the crawl. I'm most likely doing this all wrong.
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Dog does great until about the 12 to 15 feet mark.
1. I'm using treat for compliance only.
2. What are the correct steps to this exercise?
oldearthdog, Thanks, We have been working on this for about 2 weeks, but not everyday. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Maybe so! Only I should have thought of that. I used a similar approach training the retreive.
I'll make me a cage with wire for him to crawl under. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Thanks,
I've seen tunnels made of 2by4'swith plywood tops and pvc pipe with a cloth top. Sides should be closed (mabey chicked wire) to keep dog from coming out sides. A closed top can give some dogs a problem. I think screen top would make the dog less conscious he is going under something as opposed to just crawling for the command.
A friend of mine taught her male Pitbull to do it by balancing a piece of plywood just high enough off the ground where the dog had to crouch down some to get under it. She encouraged the dog too her with the command and blocked it off so that the only option the dog had was to go under.
Then slowly she lowered the board so the dog was required more of a crawl and eventually he did it just by the command.
Time consuming to set up what she did.
I'm trying to teach my Rott to do it by getting him into the down position and slowly pulling the treat away so he has to stretch to reach at it and eventually he'll move his front feet and start semi-crawling. The only problem with this is that he doesn't the crawl long enough....he just gets up. But I heard of this method via the complete idiots guide to fun and tricks with your dog so it must work if you put enough time into it.
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