Last night Morgan did quite well is her dinner bowl training. I'm getting really fast sits and she is looking up at me as well. The minute she hesitated in looking up at me in heel position. The food went away. She looked up at me again and I gave her the food. When she refused to look up at me just before entering her crate, the food went away again and she was so worried about having to go back into the crate that she didn't even notice that I put the food away. Okay so I let her win that game. I put her in the crate and we didn't play any more. I wonder what she will choose tonight.
This afternoon, we did some weave pole training. She has gotten very good around the arc with four poles. Sometimes, she is missing her entry and I am rewarding her after the first two poles. That seemed to work both on the on-side and off-sides of the poles. Tomorrow. I will start by rewarding her after the first two poles, then do all four poles and then tighten up the angle. We had gotten to the point where we were doing almost straight up and down poles and then I stopped training. How stupid! Anyway, I'm hoping I can close the poles a little tomorrow. The biggest challenge with Morgan is keeping her enthusiasm. I have about 4 repeats on each side and then I have to quit. I'm hoping I can get 6-8 tomorrow.
Training Morgan, a six year-old standard poodle in obedience, agility, freestyle, and hunting.
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Hi Kathy,
I am wondering why you would want 6-8 repeats? I have a bouvier, and I have to stop after only 3 repeats or else I start to get resistance and non-compliance. My dog seems to think "Mom must not think I did it correctly because she keeps asking me to do it over. Perhaps I'll try something different to see if that is what she wants." It does lead to frequent but VERY short training sessions in order to make progress.
Gloria M.
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