Craig Ogilvie workshops

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Has anyone attended any of his sessions or got any reviews, good or bad?

I've hit a bit of a brick wall with Miss Collie and i've booked a workshop with him to see if he can get us going again in terms of her focus on me in over-stimulating environments
 
rara007 said:
I’ve done two, would recommend :)
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I'm going to do the interactive play session and have registered interest for the Problem solving Sport and Working dog session in May.

Miss Collie is doing so well with her fear reactivity and impulse control in quiet places and where she feels safe, like the local parks but struggles to keep her cool when i take her to buzzy atmospheres and at obedience training. I'm hoping they will help her keep her focus on me, at the moment I can't get her involved in flyball or agility as she just loses the plot and reverts to collie chase instinct, so I need some help in keeping her sane in those environments.
 
I’m doing two this year (play and problem solving) for similar reasons to you. I did a play one in 2018 when my collie was just a pup, but I was so ill it was hard to really take it all in. Despite trying hard I still haven’t harnessed his chase drive into a toy drive, he still stares at me blankly.

Craig was a really nice guy, very cool, calm and quiet, just as attentive for the last session as the first and although some dogs looked to have similar sessions i think he was reading each situation well as to what the dog or human needed.
 
I'll do a bit of feedback after I go! I'm going to the interactive play one mid-feb. I'm hoping the little cow doesn't come into season but they said I can swap Mrs Spaniel if i need to. TBH It might do her some good as she also isn't the most confident dog!
 
So yesterday we did our interactive play session. Like BBP said, some of the sessions on the surface looked similar but really watching and listening you got the gist of what he was doing.
An interesting one for me anyway, was a pug with no play drive. He started with treats in an open clam shell, moved to a closed one and then onto a clamshell on a rope for him to chase and get.

I'm hoping for more from our problem solving course in May but my main goal was to help Miss Collie have a fun socalising experience in an new environment and strangers around her. When she gets too het up, we lose all obedience offlead and onlead just spins and lunges at whatever it is that has triggered her.
(Proud boast moment)
I explained her background and how we've worked through a lot of fear-aggression and he said how well we've done to be able to bring her to a session and not need the muzzle!

Anyway. I also explained that her future is to be a flyball/agility dog but at the moment having other dogs around her is too much.

I wasnt expecting too much from her because of the above problems, so we worked on distractions. I was SO proud. She was completely focused on me, so much better than at her classes or even 1-2-1 at home and in the park. He dropped hoops, and little rubber batons around her in a down-stay and every time she looked, looked back at me, she was treated. This is stuff i've been doing at home with her but as i've pretty much gone about this alone from research on google et al, it was good to reinforce that i am going about the right lines.

Moving on to tuggy play we practiced moving the tuggy in a soft fluid action, keeping the tension tight, and breaking it up by then releasing the tension and jogging away a few paces, so she came after us still holding the tuggy and then a few more seconds of holding it tight and then killing it completely by letting my arm go dead.
I'm hoping that I can transfer this into making her more focused on me coming back from the flyball box but time will tell.

So maybe its stuff that more experienced dog people would know already but I got a lot out of it and achieved the aim of giving her a fun, low-key outing and i'm looking forward to the problem-solving in May, although the ideal would her not needing to go by then! ?
 
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