Happy training week everyone!
1:1 winner! Thank you so much to everybody who took the time to write me some amazing reviews, it really means a lot to me personally and professionally and is much appreciated.
I'm sure I'll hold another of these towards the end of summer, so get reviewing! For now, congratulations to Abigail Wylde, you are a winner!
Day off... so I decided to do a bit of trick training! I like working with my dogs on fun stuff as they love it, it makes me sharper, and we bond more. This is the first effort at teaching a "crawl" trick- who did it best do you think?!
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Little bit of work on stop to shot and steadiness to movement with my remote dummy launcher. A retrieve reward at the end for such good steadiness 😊
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Bit of blind retrieve practice. Considering we haven't done this really since, oooh, October ish?, I was pleased 😀
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The power of play! One of Bisto's favourite reinforcers- not cheese, not toys, not even the environment here- just the idea of play and tickles! Relationship is key 😀
What would get your dog running back and being excited? What could you start building as a reinforcer?
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Games like this are excellent for
- building a fun relationship
-keeping focus and attention on you
- managing excitement
- building impulse control
- building steadiness
And a host of other things. However- this take time and effort on your part to build and development and maintain. Start in the most boring space possible (maybe even your bathroom!). Then build up in different rooms in your house. Then in your garden, just outside your house, a car park, a field, short grass, longer grass, woodland etc etc. Layer the levels of challenge and fun so that you and your dog can succeed.
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Bit of "stop to shot" practice for Toffee. At the moment she's still not a huge fan of loud noises in general, so I release her from the sit quickly (with "good girl") so that she can come back to me and be rewarded. As her confidence builds, I'll build the duration.
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Ooof! Our retrieve skills are definitely rusty after a few months off training (and focusing on hunting). Slightly jumping the gun at the start, and a pretty rubbish presentation at the end. Guess we'll be working on those areas for the next couple of weeks!
As I said in my blog, progress not perfection...!
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Training around shotgun noise today. We are about half a mile from a shooting range here, you can't always hear the shot, but when both dogs look, that was them marking the shot. I then mark and reward, and we move on to something else.
Bit of long memory retrieve training this morning since we've not done much retrieving for ages except on shoots.
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Little impromptu practice of retrieves over obstacles!
