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The course will cover –
The Stay (at a short distance for approx 30 sec to 1 min)
Stand, Sit and Down
The Recall/Coming Back
Jumping up/Doorway control/food manners
Walking on a lead (under control and without pulling)
A few simple tricks


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Recall and stay for a minute with a SPANGLE? What spangle can stay still for a minute?!
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Tricks? Eeeeeep! What have we let ourselves in for?
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Mine can sit and stay for a minute - it's nailing her to the floor to begin with, that's the tricky part!
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(Disclaimer: I do not nail my dog to the floor.... and she's only superglued to it occasionally!
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Try doing this for ten minutes.....

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Especially when two days before, he was rolling around with his legs in the air and squealing before breaking after about five minutes
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Just to say...it can be done
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Patches, get three objects (I use floor tiles) and make a triangle, which is your spot, place him in the middle. Every time he moves, just quickly and calmly take him back to the spot - the tiles are to remind you where the spot is, because I always forget
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Move the tiles around every so often so that the spot is in a different place.
I know other people tie to an object so the dog physically cannot get away, but that is a bit of a swizz to me
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Recall and stay for a minute with a SPANGLE? What spangle can stay still for a minute?!
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Otto can sit and stay for as long as needed and his bottom is made out of rubber (a la tigger!)
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He is actually better the more temptation he has to break it as well, which is odd!

The key is build it up VERY gradually, repeat it relentlessly and be prepared to go back a few steps if necessary!
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Harvey will do it no problems!

Gundogs are often trained to stay to the stick. So a thumb stick with the lead looped through it, pushed into the ground to teach the stay. Then the same is done without the restriction of the lead. The thumbstick gives the dog (and you) a marker, and the dog associates it with being on the lead so doesn't realise it can't get away from it.
However this isn't much use when you have to then pass a stay test without the thumbstick in place!
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And now I shall repeat the office mantra to you... everything's going to be fiiiiiine..... keep calm and carry on..... (normally said in the kind of soothing tone reserved for people standing on the edge of cliffs
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Remember - NOWHERE on that list does it say that you aren't allowed to use cement. Voila!
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I'm thinking I'll be chanting this line from the info letter to myself repeatedly during each session.
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Also remember that different dogs will learn at different speeds – don’t be disappointed if your dog is not quite at the level of the dog next to you.



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LOL!
 
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Is that the Kennel Club Bronze award?.

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Erm...no idea! LOL

This is the trainers credentials, so to speak.

SARAH **************** BA (HONS)
Diploma in Advanced Canine Psychology
Gold Approved Instructor – Academy of Dog Training and Behaviour
 
I feel your pain Patches, I honestly do!
Harry is now 16 weeks, and while we can do sit, it only lasts until something grabs his attention......normally about a nanosecond!
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Stay???? yeah whatever.....
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Now if the following were part of the course Harry would graduate with honours!!!
Chewing walls (namely the corner of the kitchen wall which is now round instead of right angled)
Eating gross things off the floor....very good at that one.
Looking innocent when he has done something naughty......like chewing the wall.
Sleeping and eating......champion at those!
Somethings a spangle excels at....others are just pipe dreams
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Haha!!
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St Sweep mastered sit and down at his classes (he was a year old!
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He can do sit and stay now at the grand old age of 12 - but that is mostly 'cos he nods off at every opportunity!!
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The saving grace of Sweep's class was the husky and the labradors ( 2 of them) who were so much worse than him!!!
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Its easy peasy - that sounds like good citizen bronze award, you'll fly through it! :-)

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It's the flying through it that I'm worried about!


Namely Harvey flying through the instructor's legs with me running behind, arms flailing, as I give out a pitiful plea to "STAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"

Altogether now....

"Sssss----itttttt! There's a good boy. Drop the lead, walk away, and there he is to stay."

Oh heck!
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You'll be fine - Finn is 8mths and has passed his good citizen bronze and silver - and he's a nutty spangle!!

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Teacher's pet!
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Agreed, easy peasy patches! You will be surprised, I didnt do any 'wait' training with flora until she was 6 months and within a week she could do several minutes at long distance. And shes a vizz...much worse than a spangle
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Haha!!
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St Sweep mastered sit and down at his classes (he was a year old!
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He can do sit and stay now at the grand old age of 12 - but that is mostly 'cos he nods off at every opportunity!!
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The saving grace of Sweep's class was the husky and the labradors ( 2 of them) who were so much worse than him!!!
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lol lol I have two huskies and a malamute who will do a sit or down stay until I tell them to move

Patches you`ll do just fine I bet he`ll be a good little spangle boy
 
He will be fine, he is already doing really well for his age. It sounds like the Puppy foundation or Good citizen bronze. I was a nervous wreck when Evie was doing her bronze but she was fine. Tbh the worst part is the questions they ask. They are such obvious things that I found I didn't think of them, if that makes sense. We were examined by the local dog warden and he was a real stickler on the questions, he failed quite a few people who got the questions wrong (particularly at gold level) even though their dogs did everything right
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Just to give you something else to worry about.
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Questions? What questions? No one mentioned questions?!!!!

EEEEEEEEP! Someone put me a loo roll in the fridge, I'm feeling queasy all of a sudden.
 
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