I'm just curious to hear what everyone does to keep they're training fun, upbeat and exciting for their dogs, especially when working on long duration behaviours like heeling etc?
I have one week until Duke and I enter our first Rally and OB trial and were trying to work in tons of different areas inside and outside the home and I've just found Im starting to run into a rut of not having as much variety during out fundamental work as I'd like.
I had to start alot of our fundamental behaviours ( like heeling, fronts, sits, downs, stands) from scratch and re shape them because we previously learned using traditional methods which I am not fond of. Everything is starting to get fluent, and we are now upping our criteria to add our last performance cue on everything, and start shaping for zero latency but I just can't get out of my own habits of not mixing things up enough.
It's usually easy for me to do this but we usually keep our sessions very short under 5 mins to keep it fun, but now we have so much to work on and practice I am starting to stretch into 10-15-20 miniutes at a time and this is where I'm running into problems keeping everything mixed up.
Any ideas? Tips? Things you guys like to throw into your training mix?
Thanks
Kayla
I have one week until Duke and I enter our first Rally and OB trial and were trying to work in tons of different areas inside and outside the home and I've just found Im starting to run into a rut of not having as much variety during out fundamental work as I'd like.
I had to start alot of our fundamental behaviours ( like heeling, fronts, sits, downs, stands) from scratch and re shape them because we previously learned using traditional methods which I am not fond of. Everything is starting to get fluent, and we are now upping our criteria to add our last performance cue on everything, and start shaping for zero latency but I just can't get out of my own habits of not mixing things up enough.
It's usually easy for me to do this but we usually keep our sessions very short under 5 mins to keep it fun, but now we have so much to work on and practice I am starting to stretch into 10-15-20 miniutes at a time and this is where I'm running into problems keeping everything mixed up.
Any ideas? Tips? Things you guys like to throw into your training mix?
Thanks
Kayla