Today’s five minutes….
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 Posted in training | Comments OffIt's raining out and it's coming down sideways. (I guess it's coming down and being blown sideways, to be more accurate, but whatever...) Anyway, that meant that when I took Rush out this morning to do his morning teeters, I ...
A few minutes at a time….
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in training | Comments OffI've got a whole bunch of things I'm working on with Rush right now. There's targeting the tile (front feet); teeter; waits/releases; down; recalls; crate training; loose-leash walking. So it seems like every hour or so I grab ten treats, ...
Learning to learn
Monday, February 20th, 2012 Posted in training | Comments OffI've been working with Rush using operant conditioning techniques since the first day he came to me, and of course Vikki did the same even before that. But yesterday was the first time I could actually see that Rush was ...
Training contacts, part zillion-and-one
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 Posted in training | Comments OffAfter this weekend's disastrous dogwalk contacts, I spent two nights (those middle-of-the-early-morning hours when I lie awake and think about agility) (tell me you don't do that, too) trying to figure out how to help Dancer understand exactly what I ...
First, Rush….
Monday, February 13th, 2012 Posted in life with poodles, training | Comments OffI spent Saturday and Sunday at a CPE trial with Dancer (who was competing) and Rush (who was not, of course, being as he's not allowed to compete for another 6 months). While we were there, I worked on these ...
Tile target
Thursday, February 9th, 2012 Posted in life with poodles, training | Comments OffI set out this morning to start from scratch on building target enthusiasm. (In yesterday's lesson, Debbie admired Rush's front crosses but said he was "ho-hum" about the tile target.) I sat in our hall (least possible distractions) with a ...
Training front crosses
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 Posted in life with poodles, training | Comments OffI've been working on training front crosses with Rush. I've trained him beautifully to do one obstacle or two or three in a line and then go to a thrown toy, or come to me to tug. Front crosses mean ...
Class with Dancer
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 Posted in training | Comments OffI am also taking a class with Dancer. When we got thrown out of the trial so ignominiously last fall, the official letter from NADAC said that I should work on off-leash control. Well, I did some testing, and basically, ...
Proofing….
Sunday, February 5th, 2012 Posted in training | 1 Comment »I've mentioned that I'm taking a class with Rush. I'd describe it as chaotic, but that's not right. More like.... as busy as a really crowded trial. Yesterday we finished with an exercise to work on good stays. All ten of ...
Training recalls
Friday, February 3rd, 2012 Posted in training | 1 Comment »I took Rush and Dancer to the Delta this morning for a nice off-leash walk. They both took off at a dead run as soon as I took off their leashes; Rush ran as fast as he could in a ...