Training - Experiences, Challenges, and Mindsets

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Comment by Jane, Guinness and Murphy on December 8, 2010 at 5:31pm

Oh my trainer is definitely coming with me. I'm not quite that brave.

Comment by Adina P on December 8, 2010 at 10:57am

Are you going INTO PetCo WITH your trainer or without?

Comment by Jane, Guinness and Murphy on December 8, 2010 at 10:24am

We walked Guinness and Murph all through the neighborhood today. He was a very good boy. On Saturday we're going to PETCO! Heaven help me....

Comment by Jane, Guinness and Murphy on December 8, 2010 at 9:36am

Julie, you can either start this as a separate discussion or you can add it to the December sit/stay assignment. Your goal would be to improve your sit/stays outside with distractions (you'd want to be a lot more specific than that...but that's the general idea). That would allow others in the group to provide input or ask questions. There are probably many of us working on this exact same thing.

Comment by Adina P on December 8, 2010 at 9:23am

Julie: You just have to start small. SO if he can give you a 1-2 minute sit stay IN the home, then only expect a 10 second sit stay OUT of the home to start. Then work up. Do it in your yard first and build up time. Do it on your front porch and build up time. Do it on the sidewalks and build up time. The method I use to train pretty much starts everything out of the house so right away you've taken care of the out-of-the-house teaching. But go places that are empty of people and dogs (large fields, empty sections of a large park, etc). Start from a very short stay and work up. Maybe start a discussion above if you want to get others to chip in their ideas or spend more time problem-solving. In your discussion that you start, be EXTREMELY descriptive in how you taught him sit-stay, how you enforce it, what you do if he breaks his stay, how far you go from him, where you stand, if you ever repeat your command, how much/what types of distractions he can handle in the house, etc. Give us a word video of his stays. Then if you can get a REAL video uploaded of you and him practicing a stay...even better!

Comment by Frannie & Callie on December 8, 2010 at 9:03am

I just signed Callie up for a "rally" class that starts 1/8/11. VERY excited to go to this next training level with her!!

Comment by Julie, Boomer, Milo & Casey on December 8, 2010 at 9:00am

Adina - I've been meaning to do this. My doodle is the 'perfect' dog in the home but get him outside with people and other dogs and he's a spaz! I'd like advice on how to get better stays (or a stay at all...) when outside. He follows me every where in the home and seems to really respect me and look up to me as his leader but I become irrelevant outside - real quick! THANKS!

Comment by Adina P on December 8, 2010 at 8:50am

C'mon everybody...let's hear your goals/plans and see some videos of your December Training Assignment progress. Even if you haven't gotten far. There is NO shame in changing your goal part way through if it is not working out. I know lots of you have Flip cameras. You can set those on a chair, bookcase, or tripod and film away =) Show us your sit stays even if it's just a 30 second, no distraction one! If you can get yourself IN the video even better. If video is not an option, just describe how things are going or where you are struggling. We will help each other!

Comment by Jane, Guinness and Murphy on December 6, 2010 at 5:48am

WE NOW HAVE 100 MEMBERS!!!! Time to PARTY!

Comment by BG and Gavin on November 27, 2010 at 2:16pm

Oh it's "Murphy Time" alright! Mur-phy! Mur-phy! Mur-phy!

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