http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzZxDE0ob7I
Video was too large for the blog site, so here it is on youtube.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Cade-sit stay practice or should I say PROGRESS!!!
At first I started out with a clicker. NOT GOOD. He reacts so excessively to the clicker and starts offering me behaviors so rapidly that I don't have time to click the right one. Not good for a position I want to train to hold!
Then I changed to letting him figure out what I was treating him for. That was better, but not the best.
The next thing was a combination of Kristy's teaching on the start line stay that I used with Canon and the Mary Ellen Barry self control stay. I would be holding a treat on my flat hand and if he moved toward the treat, I would close my hand to show him NO TREAT. He is pretty good with this and I think if can be used to help him learn to stay. That is what I ended up with and got to the point I could stay out two jumps and he would hold it.
Videos are in the next post
Then I changed to letting him figure out what I was treating him for. That was better, but not the best.
The next thing was a combination of Kristy's teaching on the start line stay that I used with Canon and the Mary Ellen Barry self control stay. I would be holding a treat on my flat hand and if he moved toward the treat, I would close my hand to show him NO TREAT. He is pretty good with this and I think if can be used to help him learn to stay. That is what I ended up with and got to the point I could stay out two jumps and he would hold it.
Videos are in the next post
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Sat. June 18th 2011 Dog Walk practice
I got the hoop up and put Cade on the end and let him run to the toy. He is doing very well with this. I moved him farther back on the DW and he ran well from the top and also the full length of the DW. He liked doing this.
Cade - jump practice with toy
In this practice, we worked on getting Cade to jump over one jump to a toy placed on the other side. He was able to do this pretty easily. Then I added a second jump and he could not do this. He would jump one jump and come back to me. He would not go over two.
I also worked on his stay by holding a treat in my hand and making him wait to get it until I released him with OK. He was able to do it from about a foot away.
We also worked on jumping forward to a jump and wrapping around and then I presented a toy so he would accelerate as he turned. He did very well with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zM6Azu8mM
I also worked on his stay by holding a treat in my hand and making him wait to get it until I released him with OK. He was able to do it from about a foot away.
We also worked on jumping forward to a jump and wrapping around and then I presented a toy so he would accelerate as he turned. He did very well with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zM6Azu8mM
Monday, May 30, 2011
Cade - jumps & tunnels
I setup a few jumps and tunnels to work with Cade. We did pretty well and progressed nicely. I am having to learn to cue him properly. He goes forward nicely to a tunnel. I like that! He is very treat focused and sometimes runs to the treat in my hand. He works things out and learns each session. Nice job. We start class next week!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Cade has a lesson in behavior!!!
Cade went with us as he always does to sit in the crate and play before and after Canon's lesson. Well I asked if Elaine, the trainer could work with Cade a little and get us started on teaching him an effective sit/stay! To this point, he was like a dog sitting on hot coals and would not hold anything but a minute. She worked with him also on his barking and being obnoxious. we will start him in the baby class in June. I can't wait for that.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Friday May 6th Practice
It has rained for the past month, so we have been doing a little training inside. We are working on Mary Ellen Barry's foundation skills. It is going slowly. :-|
Tonight I setup some jumps, tunnels and the weaves and worked with Cade on all of them. I worked on having him run with me and take jumps and then leave me and take a tunnel. He did very well and has no trouble jumping or taking the tunnels. He had great fun doing it. He will not stay at all, in fact asking him to sit and stay produces this fabulous leap from his hind legs as I move away from him. Wow, what a dynamo I have to work with. I am going to have to start really working on a stay with him.
He followed my front crosses very well, but a rear cross into the tunnel caused him to back out and not take it. He's such a baby still! I have my channel weaves set at about 3 inches so he can run through them and not have to weave. I have been working to get him to go in the correct entry. I let him work it a few times and he actually did all six with some drive a few times. He got pretty good doing 3 and would come out for the treat. Today I gave him the treat, but as we practice, I will give it to him less and less until he knows to do all 6. What a good boy! I had to remove ALL toys from the premises.
Tonight I setup some jumps, tunnels and the weaves and worked with Cade on all of them. I worked on having him run with me and take jumps and then leave me and take a tunnel. He did very well and has no trouble jumping or taking the tunnels. He had great fun doing it. He will not stay at all, in fact asking him to sit and stay produces this fabulous leap from his hind legs as I move away from him. Wow, what a dynamo I have to work with. I am going to have to start really working on a stay with him.
He followed my front crosses very well, but a rear cross into the tunnel caused him to back out and not take it. He's such a baby still! I have my channel weaves set at about 3 inches so he can run through them and not have to weave. I have been working to get him to go in the correct entry. I let him work it a few times and he actually did all six with some drive a few times. He got pretty good doing 3 and would come out for the treat. Today I gave him the treat, but as we practice, I will give it to him less and less until he knows to do all 6. What a good boy! I had to remove ALL toys from the premises.
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