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iiiitttt steak teach that increased volume means increased speed and urgency as well as better rewards don t forget to be jolly with your dog if your dog reacts to other dogs start dancing and singing backwards also rhythm helps to counteract fear so if you are nervous around dogs because of your dogs reactivity or the other dog s response or both ie me sing a song or recite a poem while you dance backwards the dog will look at you puzzled turn away from the other dog and the situation will begin to defuse also associate another dog in the distance with a game of tug brilliant since i have a tug machine i asked him a question at the end having been pondering it for years the question was why do neutered males appear to target intact males when the intact males have not been rude or weren t even paying attention the answer was so simple that i actually slapped myself on the forehead and exclaimed it s so simple augh the reason is that males tend to target other males an intact male smells like a male dog a neutered male doesn t the neutered male doesn t register as a male let alone competition you may have to reward behaviors you don t like for a while in order to reward the behavior you do like later while i picked his brain over beer and cocktails i asked about scorch s whining vocalizing in the ring i ve never subscribed to the bark quiet way of working on a barking problem possibly because i never gave it enough thought and because i didn t teach quiet properly ian had me willing to give bark shush a try he likes shush better because it s hard to say it angrily we talked about the possibility of teaching whine on command challenging but it s easy to elicit from him so i think i m up for the challenge and then properly teaching shush in obedience practice we can work on heel shush and then wean off of the shush we also discussed teaching a different word for each glove position good stuff i have lots more to write about what i ve worked on so far but i had a big breakthrough today scorch knows how to bark on command sort of but i don t like it because he has to get himself worked up to do it and then he starts barking at every word i say so we went outside to work on it while we were heeling he was barking and worked up so we stopped heeling so i could give him permission to bark when told to bark on purpose scorch s eyes lit up really you want me to bark even though i m a maniac yes scorch yes i do and i am going to reward you even as you ricochet off of my chest ow here s a treat omg bark bark bark spit flying everywhere treat treat treat ow my fingers ok scorch let s calm down heel up heels up while barking ooookkkaaay heel heels while barking and spitting ok time to work on shush shows scorch a treat shush bark shush bark okay this isn t working what would ian do british voice in my head put the treat right under his nose as you say shush lure the behavior you want okay treat under nose shush shushes holy crap repeat alternate use the treats to get the answer i want walk around practice suzanne clothier s relaxation protocol bark shush heel bark don t treat the responses where scorch leaps into the air bark bark shush wait three seconds before rewarding shush bark he s getting it oh my god he s getting it we ve done three training sessions scorch still takes some working up before he will bark he s only starting to understand that one can bark without being wound into a frenzy but his command discrimination is progressing at an amazing rate holy hell it s working he is shushing and he is amazed that he gets to bark which is my favorite part of all i love it when my dogs think working with me is one of the best parts of their day stay tuned for progress and also for norman s new job that he s thrilled to be allowed to do carrying paper towels channeling his tendency to want to put alligator jaws on discarded paper towels has been a world of difference posted by jen at 6 36 pm 1 comment thursday july 12 2012 video correction i accidentally posted the same video twice so here s the actual cdx earning run posted by jen at 6 59 pm no comments sunday july 8 2012 scorch cdx re this post is super late in coming probably because of the break we ve taken from any serious training but we did it we achieved the goal of the companion dog excellent title the cdx title was always just tantalizingly out of reach with jack we never finished the ukc cd title due to his health cutting his career and eventually his life short with wolfie we never even started the cd due to his hips both dogs were trained through novice level obedience but both dogs only knew bits and pieces of open work and wolfie cannot hold a sit for 3 minutes so we never got that far with it but scorch my novice a dog has taught me more than i ever imagined i can t believe that we conquered open a we showed in orlando in april we got hit pretty hard for vocalizations but other than the whining scorch kept himself under control and put on some of the best performances of his life in fact if it hadn t been for the 10 point hit we got for whining on sunday we would have had a 198 i m extremely proud of that performance his 191 and 188 still earned us 2nd and 3rd place respectively with two legs down and one to go we showed in lakeland we hadn t been to ipoc before so i knew we d be battling some anxiety demons as it happened denise fenzi had achieved a positively trained otch just before our show some well known local trainers were there bitching about it it went on all weekend i was stunned one of the women who is a fan of prong collars and correcting every little mistake in heeling until the dog figures out where they re supposed to be did at least say that she respects any otch and that no one can buy that kind of honor but in the same breath she also went on about how many years it took denise to get it really the dog was busy achieving schutzhund titles at the same time one of the trainers another well known local man called his dog that little shit after their utility performance then immediately went back to abusing positive training techniques talk about scapegoating bryan took to calling the group the knitting circle and actually got aggravated with the attitude of the dog has to do the work so our first day in the ring started out ok but scorch did become too jazzed up i knew the second that we walked into the ring that i barely had him he turned in a nice heeling performance that looked great but it felt wrong and sure enough when i went to pet him before the figure 8 i felt him vibrating and he was not interested in my touch at all he nq d by going around the jump and also by hitting the broad jump day 2 was better as soon as we walked into the building scorch knew where he was and what he was there to do we did lots of down stays near the ring and tried to get into a zen mode i had great attention from him without the edge of frantic that had marked our warm up the day before we went into the ring and i knew that i had him we turned in a score of 195 and got 1st place i cried a little as we celebrated after the broad jump i was a nervous wreck during the out of sight sit stays but after he aced that i was completely relaxed but in shock during the down stays i didn t know our placement but i suspected we placed i wasn t expecting first though and the tears started again my little border collie my heart dog next comes utility although after the adrenaline rush that was open i was happy to take a breather and focus on the basics for a while now we re starting to pick up the training again and i can t wait for the next leg of the journey i ll probably enroll in our 3rd utility class in the fall and see where we re at maybe we can start showing again in late winter i am so proud of my boy posted by jen at 8 45 am 4 comments friday march 30 2012 jackpots tugging and breathing i had an opportunity to speak with a trainer i really look up to earlier this week i sent an email to willard bailey author of remembering to breathe and otch dreams as well as the willard unleashed blog even my mom has read his books and bryan is used to seeing them in various locations around the house i emailed him asking for his input on the tugging issue i wrote about the other day to my surprise he responded back quickly and said to call him to discuss it further the conclusion we reached after lengthy discussion was that tugging amps him up too much and i should not be tugging with him before going into the ring i d been using it thinking it would get out some energy but it seems to have the opposite effect he also didn t think i would get anywhere trying to put out the tug toy and trying to work him around it he recommended continuing the calm quiet petting between exercises then when we re done training or out of the ring heel a distance away from the ring or outside the building then use tugging as a jackpot we also talked about ring nerves and he recommended giving as much attention to my dog as i expect from him hopefully that will help me tune out the audience and it will help keep the connection strong between me and my dog i felt so much better after talking with him some of what we talked about were things i considered but having it organized and laid out was so beneficial to me i feel like we have a plan now and the difference since then has been incredible we ve had a few training sessions using tugging as a jackpot he doesn t get the tug toy though until i ve decided we ve completed the last exercise and we have to heel over to it he has been in control and confident rather than losing his mind in the middle like he was before at utility class on wednesday several students and my instructor commented that scorch seemed confident and well composed they all are yelling at me to breathe when they catch me holding my breath too we also had a tremendous breakthrough with one of the games our instructor had us play she put gloves out glove 2 middle was one glove gloves 1 and 3 corners each had 3 gloves lined up we sent to the corners only which was nice since the middle is a bit of a magnet for scorch i sent scorch to glove 1 first but he had trouble taking his focus off of 2 he finally got it and i called him as soon as he thought about picking up the first glove so he didn t shop all three he brought it back i took it and finished him then immediately asked him to look again and sent him he got through the gloves in corner 1 and on the third one something seemed to click we pivoted to glove 3 and he immediately focused in i sent he came storming back i took the glove finished and immediately focused him and sent again all of a sudden we were on fire it was the very first time i really saw him focus and channel his drive instead of just being energetic and galloping through the exercises he didn t vocalize and his fronts and finishes were great we did heeling and signals with all the other dogs milling around he reacted a little to the intact golden but otherwise stayed focused he did great with directed jumping over the bar but had a bit of trouble with the high he s graduated to a sit box for go outs and was fantastic and above all he was quiet after we finished class we had five minutes of intense tugging before going home we ve done some run throughs at home and he s been quiet and we ve really had fun will we qualify in orlando i sure hope so but at least i know we re well on our way and we ve really improved our working partnership so here s what i did to him at work today i m lucky he s not easily embarassed posted by jen at 3 46 pm 1 comment tuesday march 27 2012 to tug or not to tug so i tried a little experiment last night scorch and i were practicing obedience in a parking lot in lakeland we worked a couple of heeling patterns and the figure 8 i had the dumbbell out in sight and he was reasonably quiet we broke off from heeling for a reward except instead of a treat i allowed him to tug for a few minutes i put the tug away and we moved on to dumbbell retrieves he was much more on edge and even barked he was also grabby with the dumbbell and i had that barely contained feeling that marked so many of our runs he loves tugging even more than treats he ll go into my training bag and ignore an open bag of salmon goodies in favor of a felt tug but it sends him over the edge what do i do do i stop tugging altogether for a while save it for the end tug and then try an exercise and put him away if he vocalizes practice exercises with the tug toy around but don t let him have it what do i do when his favorite reward makes him bonkers posted by jen at 2 14 pm 2 comments monday march 26 2012 open update well we re officially going to try open again scorch and i are signed up for orlando on april 14th and 15th i haven t been pushing the jumping issues much we ve spent a lot of time working on calm behavior around the dumbbell or other stimulation when we get into work mode he s doing a lot better keeping the vocalizing to a minimum but he is still engaging in his high pitched keening at other times which worries me a bit we went to the marina again yesterday i taught a private lesson first to a student whose dog was getting reactive on lead we walked around the park and worked on his attention then i brought out scorch the dogs are buddies but he reacted out of excitement when he saw him too anyway as we walked around scorch would occasionally start his keening when we stopped he was overstimulated i suppose and that s what brought it on but it s very hard to get him to come down when he gets like that but after some more walking and some obedience he settled so i suppose there is a light at the end of the tunnel when the lesson was over i did a mini run through with scorch i didn t do much warm up and his heeling was terrible at first we did an l shape starting with a slow he hates that left turn halt about turn right turn fast halt we did the entire unsatisfactory pattern then re did it he was nicer the second time although forge y we did a figure 8 around two dumbbells again the first go around was crummy but after that he was on he heeled a bit wide at times but i liked that better than bumping and interfering i left the dumbbells on the ground and we moved to a drop on recall he s having trouble with that one and dropping late so i ve started moving towards him when i call down and weaning off of the movement we did 2 retrieves on the flat and he was awesome no whining or carrying on went right out and came right back his turns are a little wide after he picks up the dumbbell which is probably part of the problem with retrieve over the jump in practice i m calling jump on his way back and hopefully we can drop that soon he did some nice stays even with all the dogs walking around and people watching us we have some work to do but i m hoping we can polish those rough edges that have come up we also practiced some utility gloves he shakes the glove on the way in s...