(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)
Did some recalls and no-ball boxwork. Rewarded with tug only, no treats, which was fine with him.
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Sunday November 12th 2006 - private lesson with Theresa Rector
(Backfilled in October 2009 due to impending closure of Geocities)
Did some recalls, no problem with that and he did some marvelous tugging, both before and after using treats for boxwork! His turns were sloppy so we didn't bring in the ball. Instead, Theresa gave me a terrific lesson on shaping him with the clicker to retrieve a dead ball. I've never been shown how to shape before, but I've read a bit about it and had started to shape to teach targetting, and I can see now how excellent it is for teaching a dog to think. Practiced some more dead ball stuff afterwards at home and I will make this a priority for at-home training for the next while. At home I used a regular tennis ball (not the magical treat one) and by the end of today's sessions he would go to the ball (unprompted) and start to open his mouth.
Did some recalls, no problem with that and he did some marvelous tugging, both before and after using treats for boxwork! His turns were sloppy so we didn't bring in the ball. Instead, Theresa gave me a terrific lesson on shaping him with the clicker to retrieve a dead ball. I've never been shown how to shape before, but I've read a bit about it and had started to shape to teach targetting, and I can see now how excellent it is for teaching a dog to think. Practiced some more dead ball stuff afterwards at home and I will make this a priority for at-home training for the next while. At home I used a regular tennis ball (not the magical treat one) and by the end of today's sessions he would go to the ball (unprompted) and start to open his mouth.
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