EXAM Week 4 Please post the following tests. 1) Approximately 3-4 min video test to include the following: •Heeling, pace changes (normal, fast, slow) •Auto Sits (5 or more including Exercise Finish) •All 4 turns (Right About, Left About Turn -the new one this week, Right Turn, Left Turn) •Sit/Stays @ 6' for at 3 minutes •Figure 8 •Down •Stand (Supported with 3 circles)
2) A separate video showing the following: •A Recall into SSIF (Straight Sit in Front) @ 6' in an alley •A Sit for EXAM with a stranger. IF NEED BE, have your dog muzzled for this portion of the EXAM.
I do not see the Figure 8, the Down, the Approach by a Stranger nor the Recall????
The biggest issue I see is your pace of heeling. You are moving at a pace that would work well for an old dog or an injured dog or a pregnant dog. The pace you are moving is SLOW for Cinnamon and she is literally bored out of her mind. She finds you 'not interesting' at all and shows her opinion with the very first Sit within the first 14 seconds of this video. That Sit is flared and yet you allow it. UGH. Since every exercise comes off the Sit, when a first Sit is crap, I know the dog is going to continue blowing you off which is exactly what Cinnamon does throughout this video.
On the Stand, please o' please Stack the dog so I can see the Stack from the side? Careful on your footwork as sometimes you Return to her correctly with RIGHT foot, then close with the left foot before Exercise Finish. And sometimes you do it bass akwards (official dog training term you know).
Every time you do a Left About Turn you drag Cinnamon. Every time. And on her Sit/Stay for 3 minutes? Why not do that Sit/Stay on the Plank Board so she can't collapse on you as she does time and time again in this video. And not once do you correct her from the front with a proper Sit Correction, instead you compensate for her collapsed Sit by readjusting her. All you did was teach her you'd 'fix her sloppiness' and simply nagged her.
So what is the cure for the issues I see? Your mechanics are correct, but your execution of correcting her sloppiness is way off. You allow her to be sloppy with the first 'off' Sit. Just like Huck did on that Hunt Test when we were there in May. I watched you getting him ready to approach the line and he 100% blew you off with crap Sits.
Good rule of thumb? When the Sits are poor, consistently, unless there is a physical issue with the dog, that is a handler allowing a dog to be sloppy. And then the sloppiness just continues. *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.*
1) Faster brisk walk is to be your normal with ALL your dogs. You simply move to slow for these dogs to pay attention to you. 2) *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.* 3) Do Sit/Stays on a Front Place Board and correct, every time, from the front, for poor Sits. 4) Finally, the constant dragging I see you do? That will be corrected if your pace is MUCH MORE brisk. AND to fix those s...l...o...w starts, simply do a FAST AS LIGHTENING (but with a small stride length) start every time. That FAST START alone will communicate to the 'oh-hum' attitude I see happening with most of your dogs, "Oh MAN, I gotta pay attention!"
These are the same issues I see with you in ALL your dogs. Fix you and the dogs too will be fixed.
1) Faster brisk walk is to be your normal with ALL your dogs. You simply move to slow for these dogs to pay attention to you.
okay too slow, I'm having problems with motivation in the heat
2) *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.*
how do you do that? a sit correction will fix that?
3) Do Sit/Stays on a Front Place Board and correct, every time, from the front, for poor Sits.
Again, a sit correction will fix that?
4) Finally, the constant dragging I see you do? That will be corrected if your pace is MUCH MORE brisk. AND to fix those s...l...o...w starts, simply do a FAST AS LIGHTENING (but with a small stride length) start every time. That FAST START alone will communicate to the 'oh-hum' attitude I see happening with most of your dogs, "Oh MAN, I gotta pay attention!"
These are the same issues I see with you in ALL your dogs. Fix you and the dogs too will be fixed.
I appreciate you reminding me of one of the worst days of my life, when I had a broken arm and three people with me and no one offered to help.
I guess I"m letting more than the dogs walk on me. lol
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EXAM Week 4 Please post the following tests.
1) Approximately 3-4 min video test to include the following:
•Heeling, pace changes (normal, fast, slow)
•Auto Sits (5 or more including Exercise Finish)
•All 4 turns (Right About, Left About Turn -the new one this week, Right Turn, Left Turn)
•Sit/Stays @ 6' for at 3 minutes
•Figure 8
•Down
•Stand (Supported with 3 circles)
2) A separate video showing the following:
•A Recall into SSIF (Straight Sit in Front) @ 6' in an alley
•A Sit for EXAM with a stranger. IF NEED BE, have your dog muzzled for this portion of the EXAM.
I do not see the Figure 8, the Down, the Approach by a Stranger nor the Recall????
Deb,
The biggest issue I see is your pace of heeling. You are moving at a pace that would work well for an old dog or an injured dog or a pregnant dog. The pace you are moving is SLOW for Cinnamon and she is literally bored out of her mind. She finds you 'not interesting' at all and shows her opinion with the very first Sit within the first 14 seconds of this video. That Sit is flared and yet you allow it. UGH. Since every exercise comes off the Sit, when a first Sit is crap, I know the dog is going to continue blowing you off which is exactly what Cinnamon does throughout this video.
On the Stand, please o' please Stack the dog so I can see the Stack from the side?
Careful on your footwork as sometimes you Return to her correctly with RIGHT foot, then close with the left foot before Exercise Finish. And sometimes you do it bass akwards (official dog training term you know).
Every time you do a Left About Turn you drag Cinnamon. Every time. And on her Sit/Stay for 3 minutes? Why not do that Sit/Stay on the Plank Board so she can't collapse on you as she does time and time again in this video. And not once do you correct her from the front with a proper Sit Correction, instead you compensate for her collapsed Sit by readjusting her. All you did was teach her you'd 'fix her sloppiness' and simply nagged her.
So what is the cure for the issues I see? Your mechanics are correct, but your execution of correcting her sloppiness is way off. You allow her to be sloppy with the first 'off' Sit. Just like Huck did on that Hunt Test when we were there in May. I watched you getting him ready to approach the line and he 100% blew you off with crap Sits.
Good rule of thumb? When the Sits are poor, consistently, unless there is a physical issue with the dog, that is a handler allowing a dog to be sloppy. And then the sloppiness just continues. *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.*
1) Faster brisk walk is to be your normal with ALL your dogs. You simply move to slow for these dogs to pay attention to you.
2) *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.*
3) Do Sit/Stays on a Front Place Board and correct, every time, from the front, for poor Sits.
4) Finally, the constant dragging I see you do? That will be corrected if your pace is MUCH MORE brisk. AND to fix those s...l...o...w starts, simply do a FAST AS LIGHTENING (but with a small stride length) start every time. That FAST START alone will communicate to the 'oh-hum' attitude I see happening with most of your dogs, "Oh MAN, I gotta pay attention!"
These are the same issues I see with you in ALL your dogs. Fix you and the dogs too will be fixed.
Hope that helps, Deb.
1) Faster brisk walk is to be your normal with ALL your dogs. You simply move to slow for these dogs to pay attention to you.
okay too slow, I'm having problems with motivation in the heat
2) *INSIST on a proper Tuck Sit and you will see many of these reoccurring issues cease.*
how do you do that? a sit correction will fix that?
3) Do Sit/Stays on a Front Place Board and correct, every time, from the front, for poor Sits.
Again, a sit correction will fix that?
4) Finally, the constant dragging I see you do? That will be corrected if your pace is MUCH MORE brisk. AND to fix those s...l...o...w starts, simply do a FAST AS LIGHTENING (but with a small stride length) start every time. That FAST START alone will communicate to the 'oh-hum' attitude I see happening with most of your dogs, "Oh MAN, I gotta pay attention!"
These are the same issues I see with you in ALL your dogs. Fix you and the dogs too will be fixed.
I appreciate you reminding me of one of the worst days of my life, when I had a broken arm and three people with me and no one offered to help.
I guess I"m letting more than the dogs walk on me. lol
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