Tim, you wrote, "i would rather have my dog down about 8-10 feet away from the decoy". Is your training goal to send a dog into a search to H&B and for the dog to "down" 8-10 ft from the decoy?
The reason why we don't teach a static H&B is that in a confined space it's not practical for the dog.
when i said we train the dogs to down about 8-10 feet from the decoy, yes what i meant is that is our training goal.
as far as being practical, there are those that say the H&B is not practical. what we must do is train to be practical. in an open area when first teaching the H&B, yes an 8-10 foot radius on the down is what we shoot for. by saying it isn't practical i can only assume that you mean that in a tight space the dog can't get that distance. so what? do you think the dog would run away because it can't get the distance? from what i have seen when a dog goes into a tight space and all of a sudden comes up on the decoy, the dogs will back off and down as far away as they can in the given space if it is less than 8-10 feet. the dogs aren't stupid. they can figure out that if there isn't 8-10 feet of space, then they down as far away as they can because if they get dirty they know there will be hell to pay...
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Re: Corrections in the Hold and Bark
[Re: Andres Martin ]
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