Are you ready? This is a question we should ask our dogs when we want their engagement, rather than presuming they’re immediately available to obey our every whim. There are lots of ways to do this, but this is one of my favourites. I call it Ready? Ready! and I adapted it from Kay Laurence's SheepBalls. Bay's favourite ball is placed at my feet and as I circle it Bay stays opposite me (if I circle left so does he, if I go to the right he changes direction). The only rule is he cannot run in to take the ball, if he does this I stop making the game noises and simply wait for him to drop the ball and back away to restart. As you can hear I make silly noises and he can get as excited and happy as he likes in anticipation of the ball being gently kicked in his direction to retrieve. Playing Ready? Ready! helps with impulse control, engagement and focus (what you can't see in this video is the off lead dog that passes behind us which Bay completely ignores, but you can see his rabbit fur ball on the ground and he LOVES that ball - but he loves the game more). It helps his thinking and listening skills when excited because sometimes I throw cues in there too. However mainly we just play this game because it’s fun – and he deserves to have fun every day of his life.
Training will go ahead today!
This is our trainer Kendrah doing movement puzzles with her dog Bailey. My Saturday group have just started this, there are loads of benefits, it gets the dog thinking so tires them mentally, good for propreoception and great to do indoors when the weather is bad.
Last lesson on Saturday for young Nellie, she'll now be joining our general training class. What a lovely bit of loose lead walking to finish.
Yesterday’s Improvers Agility class, well done everyone!! If you are interested in doing agility with your dog give Adrienne a call 07881 552559.
This is session 3 of Saturdays loose lead workshop. Here they are using each others dogs as a distraction. Fabulous work!
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A lovely Social Walk in Pishiobury Park on Tuesday evening, working on loose lead walking. Here's young Albert, a very friendly and VERY excitable young Golden Retriever. He gets easily distracted and lunges towards whatever has taken his interest (as you can see when he spots me filming him). His wonderful family have been working hard on this, but loose lead walking has been difficult for young Albert. The video shows him practicing a pattern game to help him focus on his human and build duration in his lead walking. It's not perfect yet, but this is literally his first attempt at this, which he'd been practicing for about 30 seconds before I started filming - and he did so well! If you want to know more about how you can teach your dog to walk nicely on a loose lead then give us a call on 07881 552559 or email [email protected] to find out more about our group classes for adults and puppies, Social Walks, Loose Lead Masterclass or private training options.
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