At the Tollard show yesterday Jake came away with 1 1st place, and Jack with 3 clears out of 4 runs so it was a good day. Also brilliant results for Southdowns folk, Amanda especially with 2 2nd places with Storm.
The best part about the day was running Jack with enthusiasm, it has taken me a long time to get it back into him.
I think this is down to only doing interval training all winter - short bursts of really fast, really heavily rewarded sequences. I hoped was this would work as it does in people (according to James Cracknell anyway) - the best marathon runners often practice sprinting in order to improve their marathon times. You just get used to going at that speed. Excellent when a plan comes together.
I made errors running Jake by calling too soon on 2 of our runs therefore calling him off of the next obstacle. All of the turn work I have been doing on getting him more into my body language has paid off - now I just need to get used to it!
A great day out, shame we had to go home really!!
Monday, 28 March 2011
Sunday, 20 March 2011
Training Day - Jake and Dizzy
I attended at 2 hour session with Lee Windeatt yesterday training Jake then a pre-agility session with Dizzy and Hannah Banks.
We leaned lots and want to thank Lee a lot. The small group we had were all lovely and hopefully we'll meet up more for training over the Summer.
We leaned different - faster - methods for snakes, front crosses and wing wraps with helpful points to remember them by - '£50 titbit hand' and and 'drink from the bottle' being the ones that stick in my head!
As as this we came away with tips for making the most of normal 'club' training.Why practice something you know you can get right 100% of the time?
Jakey was a good boy - I was okay!
Onto Dizzy's Training......
Here we were lucky again. Only 2 of us training so really good fun and time to chat at the end. The other dog was a BC who had been in an accident and had to have a leg removed. He was coping amazingly well and it was a pleasure to see him work.
Dizzy was good - loved the rocker and wobble boards - did some perch work and had a go on the wobble cushion. Her work ethic remained good even in a new environment which was lovely.
We had a good discussion of 'in the box' work and how it could be used to transfer to agility equipment - I have a video of Dizzy practicing this when she was little on my you tube site.
The cavaletti were a bit too big for her at the moment - we'll practice on ours at home as well as general ramp type work.
Hannah is lovely and I would really recommend her workshops to anyone. Her blog is titles agilitydogsfitness on blogger.
Emma x
Mum and dad looked after the girls so they had a good time too.
We leaned lots and want to thank Lee a lot. The small group we had were all lovely and hopefully we'll meet up more for training over the Summer.
We leaned different - faster - methods for snakes, front crosses and wing wraps with helpful points to remember them by - '£50 titbit hand' and and 'drink from the bottle' being the ones that stick in my head!
As as this we came away with tips for making the most of normal 'club' training.Why practice something you know you can get right 100% of the time?
Jakey was a good boy - I was okay!
Onto Dizzy's Training......
Here we were lucky again. Only 2 of us training so really good fun and time to chat at the end. The other dog was a BC who had been in an accident and had to have a leg removed. He was coping amazingly well and it was a pleasure to see him work.
Dizzy was good - loved the rocker and wobble boards - did some perch work and had a go on the wobble cushion. Her work ethic remained good even in a new environment which was lovely.
We had a good discussion of 'in the box' work and how it could be used to transfer to agility equipment - I have a video of Dizzy practicing this when she was little on my you tube site.
The cavaletti were a bit too big for her at the moment - we'll practice on ours at home as well as general ramp type work.
Hannah is lovely and I would really recommend her workshops to anyone. Her blog is titles agilitydogsfitness on blogger.
Emma x
Mum and dad looked after the girls so they had a good time too.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Who is a Positive Reinforcement Trainer? | Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors
A good short post about the use of different parts of learning theory and it's application in training. Yes - we strive to generally use positive reinforcement in training, especially to build new behaviours. However, negative punishment is acceptable in some circumstances.
I strongly believe that positive punishment should only be used as a last resort by a qualified behaviourist and negative reinforcement is pretty difficult to achieve without damaging a relationship.
Who is a Positive Reinforcement Trainer? Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors
I strongly believe that positive punishment should only be used as a last resort by a qualified behaviourist and negative reinforcement is pretty difficult to achieve without damaging a relationship.
Who is a Positive Reinforcement Trainer? Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors
Sunday, 13 March 2011
Dizzy and Meg Meet up......
Today we went for a walk with the dogs and met up with Nicole the Many Tears fosterer with her Dogs and Meg (who was Dotty and is Dizzy's sister).
Video below of their little play session.
Interesting to watch them communicate!
Video below of their little play session.
Interesting to watch them communicate!
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Week 12-13 - Open / Closed Hand game and release to a toy
Open / Closed Hand game and Release to a toy
Also this week - working on confidence when out all alone, not jumping up when dinner is being prepared and crate training. Oh, and leaning to go through the dog flap!!
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