Working on a right turn
Friday, December 16th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffI know lots of people who can say "right!" and their dog turns right; they say "left!" and their dog turns left. With Elly--agility dog number 1 and a wicked sense of humor--I relied entirely on body language. With Dancer, ...
Two-tunnel games
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffI set up two curved tunnels, like this: (----25----) where there was about twenty-five feet between the ends of the tunnels. For Rush, I stood in the center, like this: (----+----) and I sent Rush to one end of one tunnel, then did a front ...
Step One
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 Posted in life with poodles, training | Comments OffI took Rush and Dancer down to the barn today to do some training. I worked tunnels and speed and all that fun stuff with Rush, then contacts and tunnels and speed and all that fun stuff with Dancer. It ...
Training at high intensity
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffA few years back I went to ClickerExpo and went to all the Ken Ramirez sessions (and all the Kathy Sdao sessions). One of the things Ken Ramirez said then has resurfaced in my brain over the last few weeks: ...
Beginning agility training
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffI've been working very hard on agility foundation skills. Things like a solid line stay in front of equipment, coming to the side indicated by my hand, circle work (staying by my side as I walk/trot/change direction), following tug and ...
“Vegetarian Chicken Camp”
Friday, November 11th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffGreta Kaplan is teaching an intensive clicker training skills class, which of course I signed up for. (It is an abstract of Bob Bailey's Chicken Camp, but no chickens are present, hence, "Vegetarian".) Last night was focused on developing better ...
Working on the new list…
Friday, November 4th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffI've been working on several things from the new training list, as well as training some foundation skills that are needed for other things on the list. I've asked several people how they train LEFT and RIGHT. A surprisingly large ...
Wild Puppy!
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 Posted in life with poodles, training | 1 Comment »I woke up this morning to a new Rush. Yesterday he was calm and cool, listening attentively at class; this morning he's a whirling dervish, dying to tug, taunting poor Elly and Dancer until they snap at him, running wild ...
Working on Sit
Saturday, October 29th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffWho works on teaching the dog to sit? I mean, really, with a poodle, they learn a nice default sit in about three seconds. Rush knew to sit to have his dinner put in front of him by the second ...
So… already I realize the new list is incomplete….
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011 Posted in training | Comments OffI realized this morning that several things on the new list require that Rush sit ahead of me, with his back toward me. Not something I've taught before! I think I'll start with Elly, then Dancer, then Rush.