On Dogs

I was unable to do a voice over, for now, I give this explanation. If you notice on her first send she flares the dog a bit and I have a little trouble getting her to line up on the cone. However, she settles in and does a good job.

We are working with Carry on holding her directional cues for a longer duration. I don’t want her to flip her head in a direction and then look away, I want her to hold the direction.

In addition to building duration, I am working on her ignoring distractions.

She is wearing a radio and I am using a throat mic.

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Training in Drive and the proper use of reward markers will improve your control, reduce conflict, and speed learning without reducing your dog’s drive for his work. 

Pat will be joined by his wife, Connie Cleveland, also a professional trainer who competes in obedience and field trial competitions. 

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Had a great time training this weekend with a great bunch of folks in Elkton, MD at Rebel Ridge Farms training grounds.

I believe we had 11 breeds represented and dogs and trainers from several different venues. Retriever hunt tests, Spaniel hunt tests, IPO, Obedience, and carting.

I have a puppy from my breeding of Carry to my wife’s dog Nate. Carry is the third generation of females in this bloodline I have trained, my puppy “M ” is the fourth.
Nate is an AFC OTCH from field trial breeding and Carry is a daughter of a 2011 NAFC Grady
I will be posting on her work and training.
Here is a little clip of her enjoying a swim. 

 

I think we are not fully appreciating the sensitive
periods in the development of our working dogs.

This study from the sciencedaily was done on teaching wild birds a new/different song.

Click the link to read the report

Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 4 have shown for the first time that they could teach young sparrows in the wild how to sing a new tune. The wild birds then passed the new songs on to the next generation.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181004143948.htm

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