Skills
Hi Olga,
As I've said, I love the lessons so far. You and Eric are doing a great job. But, as I am often envious of the fabulous obstacle skills your dogs possess (like the weave entry we were talking about), I'm wondering if it would be possible to have a weekly skill to practice with or without equipment, to hone our obstacle skills and foundation training. i don't think video would have to be necessary but it's always good to be reminded to practice some basics. I know you have already touched on this a couple of times with lateral lead-outs, attention, and working turns with the ball with Pickle - these have been great!
I think sometimes we get caught up in handling and sequencing and forget about the foundation. Even clicker training exercises are fun to work on, especially for those of us buried in snow!
Thanks!
Wendy
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yes please!!!! That way we will also have some good things to practice with our young dogs (as well as refinements for our more experienced dogs).
elizabeth
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Re: Skills - table
You know the funny thing about the table is it used to be a huge issue for my aussie and then the AAC decided to do away with the table (or at least make it optional) at the masters level. Now when she sees it it's no problem, lol.
Boy it sure makes for a faster trial and more flow! Hardly any judges ever use it now.
 Wendy
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I have the 'table from hell'!!!! with Shadow. I will try to upload one of Shadow's trial runs tonight! It will amuse everyone but me. I possibly have the record with a 20+ sec table (in a 50 ish sec total time run). I think it was 5 counts with breaks (while the count was still consecutive!!!)...........elizabeth
ps..... is a very good example of why you should not train your dog to raise a paw on the command 'give me 5'!!!ÂÂ
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I have a video of Shasta at a trial, too. She could not possibly lay down on the table while a JUDGE was walking by!!!
 Kathy, Shasta and Kola
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OK, I have egg all over my face : (  When a Russian kicks your butt,she does it very gently. Olga has told me several times that is is not enough to watch the videos and say " oh thats nice,what a pretty dog". You need to really watch and study. We have developed a  weave pole issue.....in lesson 2 there is a video of baby dog learning weave poles. I probably skimmed right over it weeks ago because I don't have a baby dog and my dog knows how to weave right. WRONG!!  So now the clicker comes out and we going back to work on the basics. I am also going to go back and watch for focus on the start line and how they are getting it. So much to learn, so little time (sigh)
Jean