01/07/2025
🐾 TRAINING TIP TUESDAY 🐾
One of the best things you can do when training your dog is to not rush!
I totally understand it, it's sooo tempting. You see some successes with your recall / retrieve / stay etc. so you start to ask for it when in increasingly distracting environments. And then you don't get the same response from your dog, or you don't continue to make progress.
As humans, we are goal orientated. It's how our brains are wired. So we tend to focus on the end goal (e.g. recall away from other dogs on a busy beach, going for a lovely walk where your dog walks on a lovely loose lead) but this can mean that we often miss out really important bits in the middle.
If you are wanting to teach your dog a reliable retrieve, break it down into it's component parts and work on those elements individually.
If you want to have a reliable recall, work on building value, increase distance gradually, layer up distractions in a structured way. Create hundreds of successful repetitions.
Learning is a process. My children have weekly swimming lessons because you can not just put someone in water and expect them to swim. They sometimes do exercises that don't immediately seem relevant to doing a front crawl for example, but when layered together create a really important, reliable life skill.
If you are stuck with a certain part of your training, comment below and we can brainstorm together 🧠❤️🐾
