Milo just starting out on his scent journey and is doing fantastically
Willows turn at scent matching
Jaspers scent matching exercise
Dexters scent match exercise. He missed the last bucket the first time round but realised he had eliminated all the other buckets so went back to recheck and found his scent in the end. Great work Dexter
Oscar’s independent scent match
Recall
Kestrel responds better to a whistle recall than a recall word. Useful for when she’s so far away chasing birds!
Go to bed is a gold exercise but is useful to teach to all dogs including puppies. Just getting them to remain calmly and quietly in a safe position can be helpful when you have guests over, are cooking or there’s an exciting activity going on where they might trip people over. Build a solid duration first, then add distance, and then distraction. Making sure it’s gradual increases and when making one thing harder, make the rest easier to set them up for success. For example when adding in distraction, lower duration to 5 seconds even if they’ve been doing one minute without distraction. Then build it back up again slowly. The more repetitions you do where your dog succeeds the easier they will find it. Setting them up to fail can lead to frustration and repeating behaviours you don’t want, often having them inadvertently rewarded by the nature of the behaviour eg getting up and rewarding themselves with freedom running around rather than waiting to be released. Make sure training is positive and short with lots of successes and finish off with a high value game such as tug once the all done cue is given so that your pups drive to work is strengthened waiting for the mega fun that comes after they finish their ‘work’
Some training with the cat dog Echo-Snape
Training
Mini training session with Raven - come front, close, side, middle, round, behind and switch 🐾
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