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Training tips or tricks?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 1:05 pm
by centrop67
What is one tip or trick that helps make training your dog effective? What didn't work?
Re: Training tips or tricks?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:26 pm
by TimL_168
Duplicitous use of healthy, athletic squirrels has worked extremely well.
Slow, sickly squirrels have not provided good results in training.
Re: Training tips or tricks?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:33 pm
by borellar15
TimL_168 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:26 pm
Duplicitous use of healthy, athletic squirrels has worked extremely well.
Slow, sickly squirrels have not provided good results in training.
Hahaha
Re: Training tips or tricks?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:38 pm
by borellar15
Finding out what your dog considers a high value reward helps. Trying to use kibble or food or a toy your dog isn’t interested in obviously makes it harder for them to stay focused. I’m now finding out that Zoey stays more focused on me when working on focused heel with a ball rather than the tug.
If I could start over again I would have began on full on engagement from the beginning. Would have made her learning the focused heel a lot easier and more solid.